UPD: The contest time has been updated due to clashes with most colleges' exams.

Attention Gym-owners!

Gear up to support Ash Ketchum on his journey to find the legendary Pokemon Ho-oh, through the Competitive Programming Contest of NITS HACKS 8.0, brought to you by the Coding Club of NIT Silchar! Dive into the excitement of team-based coding challenges and vie for fantastic prizes!

Prizes (overall):

• $$$1^{st}$$$ Prize: INR 30K

• $$$2^{nd}$$$ Prize: INR 22K

• $$$3^{rd}$$$ Prize: INR 17K

• $$$4^{th}$$$ Prize: INR 14K

• $$$5^{th}$$$ Prize: INR 12K

Prizes (NITS Only):

• $$$1^{st}$$$ Prize: INR 9K

• $$$2^{nd}$$$ Prize: INR 6K

Who Can Join? Everyone is welcome to participate in the contest! However, only undergraduate students enrolled in Bachelor’s or Dual Degree programs in India are eligible to receive prizes.

Contest Format:

• The contest will follow ICPC guidelines.

• It will be a team contest of 5 hours.

If you’re ready to help Ash take on the challenge, join us for a coding showdown. Don’t miss this chance to prove yourself among the very best, like no one ever was!

Rules:

• A team of 2-3 members from the same college is required to participate in the contest.

• An eligible individual may join only one team.

• Each participant must have a Codeforces account.

• A team must be created in Codeforces composed of the members.

• Finally, you should register for the contest using the formed team.

• Usage of LLMs and other unfair means is strictly prohibited, in accordance with the Codeforces rules.

• The team must also register through the link below; not adhering to this requirement will make the team ineligible for winning prizes.

• Further details regarding mandatory screen recording will be updated soon.

Registration Link

If you are facing issues registering on Unstop, please register through this gform.

Please join this WhatsApp group link for further updates.

Contest Time: Nov/22/2025 17:15 (Moscow time)

Click on the link below to take part in the contest. Registration for the contest will start 6 hours before the contest.

Contest Link

The problems are authored by Determinist, sohailkazi, karock, pranav_2005, itsiftikar02, ImpersonaTe, 7rikster and V1_rus.

We would like to thank :

• dXqwq, Nachia, awoo, TheScrasse, __baozii__, Arpa, SleeepyHead and others who wanted to stay anonymous, for their valuable testing and feedback.

• Atreya45, rishijha00007, Denominator18 and astitwaroy for their hardwork behind the scenes.

• MikeMirzayanov for the amazing Codeforces and Polygon platforms.

See You on the leaderboard!

UPD:

• Details regarding mandatory screen and webcam recording can be found here.

• Registration is live!

• If you are facing issues registering on Unstop, please register through this gform.

• You may either upload video recordings through Unstop or this gform.

• The editorial is now out!