Opportunity brief
Get ready for SPC '27, IIT Madras's premier competitive programming showdown with a prize pool worth Rs.1,30,000! Test your algorithmic skills, solve complex coding puzzles, and compete against top minds to take home the Code Champion title. Step into the arena, prove your technical finesse, and claim your victory. Are you up for the challenge?
The event will consist of 2 rounds:
Online prelims will be conducted as a rated contest on Codechef
Criteria for Finals: As the event is division based, we will consider the problems common for all divisions as the selection criteria for Finals.
This includes Last n problems present in the problem page visible for Div 2,3,4 participants and All n problems present in the problem page visible for Div 1 participants.
*On will be decided on the day of the contest
Details:
- This is a competitive coding contest based on algorithms, data structures, and problem-solving
- Organizer: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
- Individual Participation.
- Event date (Prelims): (will be updated soon)
- Finals for the shortlisted participants will be conducted in offline mode at the IIT Madras campus in January 2027.
- Participation certificate will be provided.
- All four divisions will have the same set of easy-medium, medium, and hard questions. Considering these questions, a common leaderboard will be formed, and finalist selection will be based on this common leaderboard.
Rules:
- Please do not discuss strategy, suggestions, or tips in the comments during a live contest. Posting questions clarifying the problem statement is acceptable. If you are unsure, email us.
- Discussing any aspect of the problem, on any other platform on the web, on identification, could lead to the disabling of respective accounts and banning from the Shaastra community.
- All the prominent programming languages are allowed.
- Each program will be tested based on our critical test data. However, output and input should be exactly as specified in the samples provided.
- All the problems have the same points allotted to them.
- The decision of the organizers in declaring the results will be final. No queries in this regard will be entertained.
- Any participant found to be indulging in any form of malpractice will be immediately disqualified.