Hacking is a fundamental business office of Facebook's culture. Whether we're edifice the adjacent big production at 1 of our Hackathons or creating a smarter search algorithm, we're e'er hacking to honour a ameliorate agency of doing things.
We're starting the Hacker Cup to convey engineers from merely about the globe together to compete inwards a multi-round programming competition. Contestants volition choose to successfully solve algorithmic-based occupation statements to advance as well as are ranked past times accuracy as well as speed.
- What: An annual algorithmic programming competition opened upwards to hackers from merely about the world.
- Where: Three online rounds alongside the finals at Facebook's headquarters inwards California.
- When: Registration opens Dec 20th alongside the 3 online rounds occurring throughout Jan 2011. World finals to follow.
- Finals: We'll pay to wing as well as arrange the overstep 25 hackers from the tertiary online circular out to our campus.
- Prizes: Of course! $5,000 USD as well as championship every bit globe champion to the overstep hacker, $2,000 for 2d place, $1,000 for 3rd, as well as $100 for fourth through 25th. Awesome t-shirts for the overstep 300 hackers coming out of the minute online round.
- Fine print: See below.
Thousands volition enter, but alone 1 volition emerge every bit globe champion.
The Fine Print
The competition commences alongside a 72-hour Qualification Round on Jan 7, 2011 at 0:00 UTC (4:00 PM PST) to Jan 10, 2011 at 0:00 UTC (4:00 PM PST). All registered competitors volition live presented alongside 3 problems. Only competitors who correctly solve at to the lowest degree 1 occupation volition advance to Online Round 1.
Online Round 1 consists of 3 sub-rounds, each lasting 3 hours inwards length that are offered at dissimilar times from Jan 15, 2011 at 15:00 UTC (7:00 AM PST) to Jan 16, 2011 at 0:00 UTC (January 15, 2011 - 4:00 PM PST). Competitors who advance to this circular tin participate inwards whatever 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 volition advance to Online Round 2.
Online Round 2 begins Jan 22, 2011 at 15:00 UTC (7:00 AM PST) as well as volition halt on Jan 22, 2011 at 18:00 UTC (10:00 AM PT). The 3,000 competitors volition choose 3 hours to solve the presented occupation sets. The top-scoring 300 participants from Online Round ii volition have an official Hacker Cup t-shirt. The top-scoring 25 competitors from Online Round ii volition live notified via e-mail that they choose advanced to the concluding circular at Facebook.
Facebook volition wing the top-scoring 25 competitors to Palo Alto, California, for the concluding circular of competition on March 11, 2011, where they'll have some nifty cash prizes as well as other awesome goodies. Out of these 25 finalists, 1 champion volition emerge as well as live immortalized on the Hacker Cup trophy.
Keep an optic on the Hacker Cup page at www.facebook.com/hackercup for to a greater extent than announcements every bit the Jan seventh qualification circular approaches.
May the best hacker win!
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