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NCPC 2022 will take place the 8th of October 2022 11:00-16:00 (UTC+2).

NCPC 2021 was organized the 9th of October 2021 11:00-16:00 (UTC+2). In total 228 teams participated from 7 countries, trying to solve as many as possible of the 13 problems.

The winning team was Omogen Heap from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, who was the only team solving 11 out of the 13 problems. Congratulations!

For the all results, have a look at the final standings

Previous Contests:

• NCPC 2021
• NCPC 2020
• NCPC 2019
• NCPC 2018
• NCPC 2017
• NCPC 2016
• NCPC 2015
• NCPC 2014
• NCPC 2013
• NCPC 2012
• NCPC 2011
• NCPC 2010
• NCPC 2009
• NCPC 2008
• NCPC 2007
• NCPC 2006
• NCPC 2005
• SM 2004 / NM 2004
• SM 2003 / NM 2003
• SM 2002 / NM 2002
• SM 2001 / NM 2001
• SM 2000 / NM 2000
• SM 1999 / Oslo 1999 / Bergen 1999
• SM 1998 / Oslo 1998
• SM 1997 / Oslo 1997
• SM 1996 /

The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a world-wide contest for students and professionals, with local and regional events, and a world final. The contest is about programming skills, problem solving and teamwork. In short terms, teams of up to three students try to solve as many programming problems as possible from a given problem set, using only one computer. See for example the problems from NCPC 2014 to get the general idea. You may use several different programming languages including C, C++, Python and Java.

The ICPC has grown to become very large. Thousands of teams from thousands universities world wide compete in the regional contests which lead up to the World Finals. Less than a hundred team get to go there, but many Nordic teams have been there the last years.

The event itself is organised in a distributed manner. It is physically hosted at many participating universities and colleges. The same problemset is used at all sites. The scores are gathered electronically, and the result is simultaneous local, national and Nordic championships. See for example the final standings from the 2014 contest.

The contest is suitable for programmers of almost all skill levels, from beginner to expert, as the problem set always has both very easy and very difficult problems. There are also separate score tables for the local sites, national level and the entire Nordic contest. This means you can choose on which level you want to compare yourself.

Since 1996, there has been a Swedish national championship (Svenskt Mästerskap i Programmering), and a Norwegian national Championship (Norgesmesterskap i programmering). There has been a Nordic championship since 2002.

All the Nordic locations belong to the Northwestern European region in the ICPC system. The Northwestern Europe Programming Contest (NWERC) is usually held in the middle of November. Universities use the local/national/nordic event as a preliminary for this contest.

The rules for the NCPC are the same as for the ICPC regional contests. In NCPC, you are allowed to bring any printed or handwritten material to the contest. No machine readable media or electronic equipment may be brought.

On the web-page for current contest there should be a list of sites hosting the contest. If your university is listed, then simply register through the online registration system before the deadline.

If you want to participate but don't have a complete team of three please contact your local contest director so they can try to help you connect with other people without teams.

If your university is not on the list, you should try to make them host the contest! Maybe you could find a professor teaching programming classes, and make him interested in arranging the contest! It is a great opportunity for inspiring students and showing that programming is fun. If no professor is interested, maybe you could get a PhD student or similar to help.

If you cannot get a local contest, many of the existing sites let students from other schools compete there. Write an e-mail to the contact listed.

We strive to make it as easy as possible for a university to join and hold a contest. Basically, all you need to do is reserve a computer room, download and install the contest software and invite the students. We have a NCPC-Site-HOWTO.

• ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
• ACM ICPC Live Archive (1988-now)
• The UVA On-line Judge, featuring nearly 1500 programming problems
• The Sphere Online Judge, featuring more than 3000 programming problems

Nordic competitions 2006

• computerword.no: NTNU best i Norge

Northwestern European Regional Contest 2005

• idg.se: Lundteknister till VM-final i programmering

Nordic competitions 2005

• computerword.no: Klart for NM i programmering

World finals 2005

• slashdot.org: 29th ACM Intl. Programming Contest Results
• svenskadagbladet.se: KTH sjua i programmerings-VM
• computerworld.no: Til VM i Shanghai
• itavisen.no: NTNU-lag forsvarte landets ære
• hegnar.no: VM i programmering

Northwestern European Regional Contest 2004

• computerworld.no: NTNU-lag til topps i europeisk programmeringskamp
• dagbladet.no: Nord-Europas kjappeste nerder
• nyteknik.se: Svenska it-studenter i världsfinal - igen
• tekniskukeblad.no: /dev/duff til VM

Nordic competitions 2004

• idg.se: Snart dags för SM i programmering
• nyteknik.se: 70 lag i nionde SM i programmering

World finals 2004

• idg.se: KTH tvåa i världen på programmering
• itpro.no: NTNU i programmerings-VM

Northwestern European Regional Contest 2003

• aftonbladet.se: Svenskt lag bäst i programmering
• idg.se: Svenskar bäst i Nordeuropa

Updated: 2022-03-19
Responsible editor: Måns Magnusson