We gladly invite you to participate in the Three Subregionals Cup 2014 – a team-based online programming competition parallel to the ACM ICPC Subregionals in Moscow, Minsk and Saint Petersburg. The tournament will be organized by the team of Yandex.Contest and the jury of the Subregionals. The online rounds will be held on the Yandex.Contest system. The dates and start times of subregionals are: Moscow (registration) – October 26th, 11:30 MSK, Minsk – November 6th, 12:00 MSK, Saint Petersburg – November 8th, 12:30 MSK.

Teams that participate in the onsite version of one of the three quarterfinals will be able to participate in the online versions of the other quarterfinals via Yandex.Contest. Teams that don’t participate in any of the three quarterfinals onsite will be able to participate in all of them online via Yandex.Contest. Cumulated results of three subregional contests will be calculated based on Grand Prix 30 scoring system.

You can register for the online rounds at any time. You can represent a single person or create a team using the My teams link. Each invited team member has to confirm his participation in the team. You can choose participation type and team members upon registering for the contest. Note that OpenCup dedicated logins will not work at this contest!

The rules of the online rounds correspond to the onsite quarterfinal's rules.

For your convenience a test contest is available.

UPD Official Moscow QF results

UPD2 Western QF is right around the corner!

UPD3 Northern QF will start tomorrow at 12:30 MSK.

Today, on June 15 at 1 p.m. MSK the last round of Yandex.Algorithm elimination stage will begin. Crucial for determination of Yandex.Algorithm finalists 718 score points will be distributed during these 100 minutes. Three prize-winners of Yandex.Algorithm 2013 have already reserved a place in the final round. Have you?

Will begin today, at 21:00 MSK. All paricipants, advanced to the elimination stage, are welcome to participate through the link. This round will be 100 minutes long and will be scored using Grand-Prix 30 system. First place in Round 1 gave pperm86 100 score points and invitation to the final round in Berlin! Who will reserve his place among the finalists today?

Good luck!

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Wow, what a weekend! I hope you all have plenty of energy and solutions for all the problems you will see in coming contest.

Elimination stage of Yandex.Algorithm 2014 will start in eight and a half hours. All qualified participants can see it on the link. Round will last 100 minues, its top 30 participants will earn score points based on Gran-Prix 30 system. Finalists will be chosen based on the total score points earned throughout the elimination stage.

Good luck and hope to see you in Berlin!

We’d like to invite you to take part in the qualification round of the Yandex.Algorithm competition that will start on May 25, 2014, at midnight. You need to start your qualification within 24 hours from the beginning of the qualification round. Qualification will last 100 minutes.

To advance to the next stage of Yandex.Algorithm you will need to solve at least one problem during your qualification.

Participants, already advanced to the elimination stage from warm-up round, are also welcome on the qualification.

Good luck!

The warm-up round for Yandex's annual international open championship in competitive programming, Yandex.Algorithm, starts tomorrow, May 16, 2014.

Yandex’s annual programming championship, Yandex.Algorithm, with original rules, international participants and monetary prizes is open to anybody who wishes to participate, regardless of their education, profession or programming style.

You can register for participation and compete for a top prize of about $9,000, with runner up prizes totalling to about $4,500 for second and about $3,000 for third places respectively. Yandex.Algorithm 2014 will consist of six rounds, including a warm-up round on May 16, a qualification round on May 25, three elimination rounds, which will run from June 1 to June 15, and a final round on August 1.

The registration deadline for Yandex.Algorithm 2014 is May 26.

Join Yandex.Algorithm 2014 to try yourself against real-life algorithmic problems, meet new friends and discover new possibilities.

PS: you need to have a full Yandex account to register. To convert your account use the link below

https://passport.yandex.ru/passport?mode=light2full

Some months have passed since World Finals 2013. To inspire teams for participation in season 2013-2014 we want to share with you an overview video of WF 2013.

http://youtu.be/-62pCYyVBIo

Preparation to WF 2014 is now in progress, Hosts are working hard together with core organizers in Yekaterinburg. We wish them good luck and hope that they will get some sleep before the beginning of the contest.

Take a while to review your photos from World Finals 2013 and share them with community through follow the crowd.

See you in Yekaterinburg!

Hi!

The next stage will consist of three elimination rounds that will be held on:

Online round 1 — 14 Jul 2013, 21:00 MSK; Materials; Analysis

Online round 2 — 18 Jul 2013, 13:00 MSK; Materials

Online round 3 — 22 Jul 2013, 05:00 MSK; Materials

Each contest round lasts 100 minutes. Links to the rounds are avaliable on the round names above.

The scoring model for this stage will be Grand Prix 30.

To advance to the final round in St. Petersburg, Russia, you don't have to participate in all online rounds. You will need to place within one of these groups:

*top 4 in one of three rounds among contestants who have not yet advanced to the final round;

*top 9 in the cumulative results of two out of three rounds among contestants who have not yet advanced to the final round; or

*top 4 in the cumulative results of three rounds among contestants who have not yet advanced to the final round,

All finalists, another 75 best participants of elimination stage and another 75 random participants of the elimination stage, who will solve at least one problem will get a T-shirt!

You can always read the full schedule and regulations on the official website.

Good luck! Next stop: Saint Petersburg!

UPD: Results of the online round 1 are now official and we congratulate Kenny_HORROR for impressive victory using "all open" strategy.

First finalists are: Kenny_HORROR, Petr, tourist, eatmore.

UPD2: Congratulations to tourist for the online round 2 victory. We are glad to invite vepifanov, yeputons, ivan.popelyshev, peter50216 to the final round!

UPD3: Based on their scores in round 3, winger, KADR, ainu7, s-quark are invited to the final round. Congratulations!

Rightful place among finalists goes to

based on two out of three elimination stage rounds : burunduk3, misof, niyaznigmatul, cerealguy, Mimino, liympanda, romanandreev, watashi, RAVEman;

for the overall performance in the stage: Nerevar, ilyakor, dreamoon_love_AA, pparys.

Dear finalists! Congratulations and see you soon in St. Petersburg. I will contact you shortly on the matter of your final round participation. Please, do not ignore my emails and answer promptly =)

UPD4 Materials of the second test round are published: Test round 2; Materials

Hi!

Qualification round of the Yandex.Algorithm competition that will start on July 8, 2013, at 7 p.m. This round is virtual, so you need to start your qualification within 24 hours from the beginning of the qualification round. Qualification will last 100 minutes even if you will start at 6:59 p.m. Please, do not discuss the problems until 8:40 p.m. July 9 — someone can be still solving the problems.

The 2,000 best contestants who have solved at least one problem will advance to the elimination stage. Already advanced from test round participants will have a chance to work with the TCM/Time.

Good luck! Almost 200 t-shirts and more than half a million rubles are waiting for you!

Registration

Link to the contest

UPD: Archive is at the competition site.

June 27 is an important date – that’s when the test round of Yandex.Algorithm kicks off. Don’t miss your chance to register, so you can be in the running for a place in the final round, which takes place on August 21-23, 2013 in St. Petersburg. The final round venue is truly unusual for such an IT event – the palace of Grand Duke Vladimir, built in 1870, will welcome finalists with all its historical charm.

In the final round, the best participants will be left one-on-one with the testing system – no internet connection or prewritten code, only properly set-up computers and IDEs. We will provide text coverage of the round.

If you want to be part of the action, don’t leave your registration to the last minute – remember, the test round starts tomorrow.

More good news: we decided to almost double the number of T-shirts. The best 75 non-finalists among participants of the elimination stage, another 75 random participants of the elimination stage who successfully submit a correct solution to at least one problem and, of course, all finalists will receive an exclusive Yandex.Algorithm T-shirt.

UPD: The test round is available for participants now: http://algorithm.contest.yandex.com/contest/306.

Current standings are open for everyone: http://algorithm.contest.yandex.com/contest/306/standings.

UPD2: Official results are avaliable on the official website

UPD3: Round archive is avaliable at the official website