📌About the Event

ICPC Asia West Amritapuri Regional 2026 – Women-Only Teams is a special reserved-slot opportunity within the ICPC Asia Amritapuri Regional Contest 2026 for all-women programming teams. The contest is part of the globally recognized International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), where teams of three university students solve algorithmic programming problems under timed conditions. For 2026, the Amritapuri Regional has 20 reserved regional onsite slots for Women-Only Teams and an exclusive ₹50,000 cash prize pool for them.

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ℹ️ Event Details

• Main Contest: ICPC Asia Amritapuri Regional 2026
• Category: Competitive programming / coding competition
• Mode of Conduct:
• Preliminary Round: Online and proctored
• Regional Onsite Round: Offline at selected host campuses
• Team Format:
• Teams must have 3 eligible students from the same college.
• For the Women-Only category, all three contestants must be women.
• The coach’s gender does not matter.
• Host Locations for Onsite Round:
• Kollam
• Bengaluru
• Coimbatore
• Mysuru

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📅 Important Dates

• Practice Contest Starts: 26 September 2026
• Mandatory Undertaking Submission Deadline: Before 1 October 2026
• Online Preliminary Contest: 3 October 2026
• Preliminary Contest Time: 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM
• Onsite Shortlisting Notification: By 15 October 2026
• Regional Onsite Contest: 1–2 January 2027

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🎯 Eligibility & Rules

• Eligibilty:
• Students currently enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate programmes at recognised colleges/universities across India can participate.
• Students from all academic disciplines are eligible; participation is not restricted to computer science students.
• Teams can consist of up to 4 members, and all team members must be enrolled students at the time of registration.
• Teams must develop an original solution for the hackathon.
• Participants may use any programming language, framework, cloud platform, API, or open-source library.
• Third-party and open-source resources must be properly attributed.

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🏆 Benefits for the Participants

• Total Prize Pool: ₹2,50,000
• 1st Prize: ₹1,25,000 + Winner Certificate + Trophy
• 2nd Prize: ₹75,000 + Runner-up Certificate + Recognition
• 3rd Prize: ₹50,000 + 2nd Runner-up Certificate
• Participants completing the hackathon will receive digital participation certificates.