Facebook Hacker Cup 2011
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At Facebook, there's two things we love: hacking and competitions.
Well, we've decided to combine those two things together and are very
excited to announce the Facebook Hacker Cup!
The 2011 Facebook Hacker Cup is the first annual worldwide programming
contest where hackers, programmers, and computer scientists compete
against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at being
immortalized on the coveted Hacker Cup trophy.
The contest consists of three online rounds and a world finals round
that will be held at Facebook's headquarters. This is your chance to
compete against the world’s best programmers and potentially win the
title of world champion and other awesome prizes.
How to sign up
Visit www.facebook.com/hackercup<http://www.facebook.com/hackercup> to
stay up to date with important announcements, rules, eligibility and
time-lines.
Registration opens December 20, 2010 and contestants can register here
at the Hacker Cup Facebook Page.
What prizes can be won?
The top 25 scoring contestants from Online Round 2 will be flown out
to Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California, USA to compete in
the World Finals. The World Finals will happen on Friday, March 11,
2011. Travel and accommodation will be covered by Facebook.
The finalists will be competing for:
1st place: $5,000 USD
2nd place: $2,000 USD
3rd place: $1,000 USD
4th - 25th place: $100 USD
The top 300 scoring contestants in Online Round 2 will get a Hacker Cup t-shirt.
How many rounds are there?
Qualification Round
The competition commences with a 72-hour Qualification Round on
January 7, 2011 at 0:00 UTC (5:00 PM PT) to January 10, 2011 at 0:00
UTC (5:00 PM PT). All registered competitors will be presented with
three problems. Only competitors who correctly solve at least 1
problem will advance to Online Round 1.
Online Round 1
Online Round 1 consists of 3 sub-rounds each lasting 3-hours in length
that are offered at different times from January 15, 2011 at 14:00 UTC
(7:00 AM PT) to January 15, 2011 at 0:00 UTC (5:00 PM PT). Competitors
who advance to this round can participate in any of the 3 sub-rounds
until they qualify for Online Round 2. The top-scoring 1,000
competitors from each of the 3 sub-rounds will advance to Online Round
2.
Online Round 2
Online Round 2 will begin on January 22, 2011 at 14:00 UTC (7:00 AM
PT) and will end on January 22, 2011 at 17:00 UTC (10:00 AM PT). The
top 3,000 competitors will have three hours to solve the presented
problem sets. The top-scoring 300 participants from Online Round 2
will receive an official Hacker Cup t-shirt. The top-scoring 25
competitors from Online Round 2 will be notified via email that they
have advanced to the World Finals.
World Finals
The top-scoring 25 competitors will be flown out to Palo Alto,
California for final round of competition where a champion will emerge
and be immortalized on the Hacker Cup trophy, along with some great
cash prizes and other awesome goodies.
Thousands will enter, but only one will emerge as world champion. See
you in the competition arena!