• Location

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne

  • U. Tennessee Martin

  • Tennessee Tech

  • U. Kentucky

  • U. Arkansas – Fort Smith

• Schedule for the Day: Starting at noon Central/ 1PM Eastern time

• Coaches from each university must register their teams following the instructions on the ICPC Registration System at the ICPC Site.

• Late registrations need to be handled individually.  There is no promise that contest officials will have the time to make changes at the last minute.  Minor changes like changing who is on a team are likely to be accepted late.  Additional teams may be more difficult to handle. Please make sure to register for the contest before the deadline.

• Teams are not eligible to advance if they do not have three team members.

• Contestants should have Kattis logins before the contest starts. Anyone who already had a Kattis login using the same email address as their ICPC registration can use that login. Anyone who did not have a Kattis login should be sent an email to the address they used to register in the ICPC system. Since each team only has one computer, it is only required that one team member login to Kattis, but is is highly desirable that all team members have Kattis logins.

$25 per person

Rules for student eligibility will be viewed as applying as if the contest was held in November of 2024. That is, age, number of years of study and such will be calculated as if the regional was being held at the usual time to allow any student who would have been allowed to compete in November to compete in March. See ICPC Regional Rules for regional rules an eligibility.

The practice contest URL will be TBD and the regional contest URL will be TBD (This is logically the 2024 contest even though it will be run in 2025).

• What judging system will be used? Kattis. You can create a free account and try out Kattis at open.kattis.com.
• Do I need to provide / can I provide my own judging? No, it will be done through Kattis and our centralized contest management.
• What languages will be supported? C, C++, Java, Python 3, and Kotlin. Note that Python 2 support is dropped for this year (this is due to ICPC World Finals dropping it).
• How many problems will there be? The number of problems varies from year to year, but there are usually a dozen or more problems of varying degrees of difficulty.
• What will be the difficulty level of the problems? We are aiming for a wide range, with some easier problems for novice programmers and some that should challenge the best teams.
• How will the contest run? Contestants will submit code and receive responses via the web.
• What is the next level if we do well enough to qualify? This year, the next level after the Regional will be the North America Championship, scheduled for late May in TBD, as an in-person contest.  From the Championship, the top teams will qualify for the World Finals, likely to be held in late 2025.