Hi Codeforces.
I am interested if there's an exhaustive list of programming contests that have onsite finals. While there's a huge number of online contests nowadays, participation in most of them doesn't give any perks except T-shirts and (sometimes) money for top finishers. While onsite contest, even if it only rewards top finishers with the money, is a good reward itself and promotion to the onsite contest is a great motivation.
Of course, everybody is aware of such well-known contests with onsite finals as Topcoder Open, Facebook Hackercup, Google Code Jam. There're also some marathon contests such as Marathon24, Deadline24, Challenge24. But there're more contests than that — for example, Codechef Snackdown (started last year), VK Cup, CROC (only for Russian-speaking participants), Mindcoding (https://mindcoding.ro/).
Therefore I'm wondering if there're some other contests that I'm not aware of. If there's no such list, let's create one! What do you think about this idea?
Bubble cup is well known contest with offsite final.
What are the advancement criteria? Is onsite participation open for everyone?
All students can participe on the contest.
Not really "all students". Here are the rules from previous year; assuming they increase birth year requirement by 1 each time (so it is <=23 years, like in ICPC), my expected M.S. degree graduation is at the time when I'll be already ineligible by age. But generally it is true that almost any student can participate there.
Did you mean onsite?
BTW, it is 'CROC', not 'KROK'.
Thanks, fixed it.
Hi! Talking about Deadline24 (www.deadline24.pl) — the registration of the teams is on. The qualyfing round will take place on March 12.
Hi! Thank you for the information — I'm aware of this contest, but to increase visibility for other participants I recommend you to create your own blog and name it accordingly — for example, "Invitation to Deadline24 2017".
Also I have a request. Can you please publish last year's problem statements from the finals? They're not available here https://deadline24.pl/history/previous-problemsets/ yet.
There was a qual of Google Hashcode recently. It's a contest of one marathon-style problem for 4 hours. 50 teams have advanced to the finals.