ICPC Amritapuri Regional Contest 2026
Amrita School of Engineering
📌About the Event
The ICPC Asia Amritapuri Regional Contest 2026 is a prestigious team-based competitive programming event for university students. Participants compete in teams of three to solve algorithmic and real-world programming problems under time pressure. The competition begins with an online preliminary round, after which the top-performing teams qualify for the multisite onsite regional contest. Successful regional teams may advance to the ICPC Asia West Continental Championship and eventually compete for a place at the ICPC World Finals.
ℹ️ Event Details
- Competition domain: Competitive programming, algorithms and problem-solving
- Participation format: Teams of three university students
- Preliminary round mode: Online
- Preliminary round venue: Participants can compete remotely, generally from their respective colleges or universities.
- Regional round mode: Onsite, multisite contest
- Available regional locations:
- Amritapuri campus, Kollam, Kerala
- Bengaluru, Karnataka
- Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
- Mysuru, Karnataka
- All regional venues are expected to conduct the same contest with the same problems and common qualification standards.
📅 Important Dates
- Registration opening date: June 15, 2026
- Registration closing date: September 25, 2026
- Online preliminary contest date: October 3, 2026
- Preliminary contest mode: Online
🎯 Eligibility & Rules
- The contest is open to eligible students enrolled at recognised colleges or universities.
- Participants must register in a team of three students.
- Team members are generally required to represent the same educational institution.
- Students from any academic branch may participate, subject to the official ICPC eligibility requirements.
- Each team must be registered through an eligible faculty coach or institutional representative on the ICPC registration portal.
- Participants must satisfy the applicable ICPC rules related to:
- University enrolment
- Years of higher education
- Previous ICPC regional participation
- Previous ICPC World Finals participation
- Beginners with knowledge of programming fundamentals, arrays, sorting, loops, functions and basic data structures may also participate.
- Teams must complete the registration and payment process before the prescribed deadline.
- The registration fee is charged once for the entire team and not individually for each member.
- The registration fee is non-refundable.
- The preliminary round will be conducted online and will test teams on algorithmic programming, logical reasoning, data structures and problem-solving.
- Teams will attempt multiple programming problems within a fixed contest duration.
- Submitted programs will be evaluated automatically against hidden test cases.
- Teams are primarily ranked according to:
- Number of problems solved correctly
- Total time taken to solve the accepted problems
- Penalties for incorrect submissions on problems that are eventually solved
🏆 Benefits for the Participants
- Participation certificates are expected to be provided to eligible teams that make at least one valid submission, as stated on the official Amritapuri contest website.
- Regional rankings and official recognition will be awarded to top-performing teams.
- Qualified teams will receive the opportunity to participate in the onsite ICPC Amritapuri Regional Contest.
- Leading regional teams may advance to the ICPC Asia West Continental Championship.
- The strongest teams can progress towards qualification for the prestigious ICPC World Finals.
- Participation can help students demonstrate skills in:
- Algorithms
- Data structures
- Competitive programming
- Teamwork
- Problem-solving under pressure