ASIA WEST CONTINENT CHAMPIONSHIP
The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is the largest computer programming contest in the world. The ICPC is an activity that provides college students with an opportunity to demonstrate and sharpen their problem-solving and computing skills. The contest is considered to be the "Olympics of Computer Programming". The ICPC Asia Regional Contests invite Asian students to meet, establish friendships and promote fair competition in programming. ICPC Foundation is the Global Sponsor of this event whereas JetBrains is the ICPC Global Programming Tools Sponsor.
A Little About Us
It is a two tier contest. The world is divided into six regions and Asia is a region. In Asia there are many host sites and Asia West Continent Championship is one of them. Each site selects one team as winner of the site and will be eligible to participate in the world finals. The winning team of each site is eligible to participate to the world finals.
Teams for Asia West Continent Championship will be selected on the basis of their performance in the Regional Rounds of all the sites in Asia West Region. Top few teams from all the regional sites of Asia West region (i.e. Amritapuri, Chennai, Dhaka, Kabul, Kanpur, Tehran and Topi) are eligible to participate in this contest. This contest will be held on 7-8 March 2026. This year Asia West Continent Championship will be a multi-site contest and will be held at Mathura (for Indian regional teams), Dhaka (for Dhaka regional teams), Topi (for Topi and Kabul regional teams) and Tehran (for Tehran regional teams).
ICPC Asia West Regional Contest Directors
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Important Dates (Tentative)
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Note (for teams participating in Indian Regional Sites): There will be a single Preliminary Online Contest for all three Regional Sites Of India (i.e., Kanpur, Amritapuri, and Chennai). Each regional site will prepare its own rank list based on the teams registered for that site from the Preliminary Online Contest rankings. Teams participating in multiple regional sites are requested to keep the same team members for each Regional Site.
Asia West Continent Championship: 7-8 March 2026
Team Selection Process:
- Teams are invited to participate in the contest based on their performance in their respective regional contest sites.
- Only the top few teams from each site will be selected for the contest.
- Even though the Champion Team of each regional site—the WINNER of the site—gets a slot in the World Finals, all the winning teams of all regional sites of Asia West Continent must participate in the AWC Championship trophy.
- Other teams of the Champion Institutes (i.e., an institute that has at least one Champion Team) are not eligible to participate in AWC.
- Team composition, under no circumstances, can be changed.
- The number of teams to be selected from each site is based on the total number of teams that participated in the Online contest and the On-site contest. The weightage for online contest teams is 0.5 and for onsite contest teams is 1. Higher the value of the metric, the larger the number.
- However, the minimum number of teams from each site that will be eligible is 5.
- The RCD of each site will select the top few teams for the AWC Finals based on the ranking of their respective Regional Contest. There is no restriction on the number of teams from one institution (except for item 4 above).
- Contests of all sites are assumed to have the same degree of difficulty. In case of a tie, World Finals Rules will be followed (number of problems solved, penalty time, time of last problem solved, time of 2nd last problem solved, and so on).
