ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2025

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Local Sponsors

Organisers

This event will be hosted by National University of Singapore, School of Computing
and organised by NUS Centre for Nurturing Computing Excellence (CeNCE).

How to Participate

Top 65 teams (195 distinct contestants and up to 65 coaches) from 5 other ICPC Asia Regionals in Nov-Dec 2024 (see below), inclusive of 2 invited teams from South Pacific Regionals will be invited for this ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2025:

  1. South Pacific Regionals, Sydney/Australia (Sun, 20 Oct 2024 — completed, scoreboard),
  2. Taichung/Taiwan (Sun, 17 Nov 2024 — completed, scoreboard),
  3. Seoul/South Korea (Sat, 23 Nov 2024, soon),
  4. Jakarta/Indonesia (Sun, 01 Dec 2024),
  5. Hanoi/Vietnam (Fri, 13 Dec 2024), and/or
  6. Yokohama/Japan (Sun, 22 Dec 2024).

Top X (usually ≈[12..15]) teams in this championship will advance to the ICPC World Finals 2025.
The winner will be crowned as Asia Pacific Champion 2025 and recognized at the World Finals 2025 Opening Ceremony.

Please read the information about ICPC Asia Pacific Championship (2024-25 cycle) for more details.

Registration

Qualified teams (the top side of each regionals above) will be automatically promoted to the contest in the ICPC global system. The coach of qualified teams will be contacted by the organiser to confirm the intention to participate and follow up with the registration process. This process is expected to be done by end Dec 2024 after ICPC Yokohama regionals and to be completed latest by mid Jan 2025.

Accepted teams then need to pay a registration fee of 280 SGD (it is 200 USD - same as ICPC APAC Championship 2024 - but with additional of 9% Singapore Goods and Servies Tax (GST), rounded to nearest tenth after conversion to SGD) per team via [method TBC by end Dec 2024].

Singapore Visa

Most citizens of Asia Pacific countries do not need visa to enter Singapore except a few.
Any team coach with member(s) that need Singapore visa should contact the RCD as soon as possible.

Venues

These are the list of important venues for this event:

  1. Singapore Changi Airport (Changi),
  2. Main contest building: NUS COM3 building (Global and Local Sponsors will have dedicated rooms: SR12-15)
  3. ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2025 Approved Hotels (transportation back-and-forth between Airport/Contest Venue/These Hotels are provided; but each team will have to settle the accomodation fees with these hotels directly - details by end Dec 2024):
    1. RELC International Hotel
    2. Park Avenue Rochester Hotel
  4. Ceremony venue: NUS University Cultural Centre,
  5. The contest venue: COM3 Multipurpose Hall (COM3-01-MPH 1+2+3) + adjoining room: Seminar Room 13 (ALC) (COM3-01-22) (with webcast connection between the two rooms),
  6. Coach room during the contest: COM1-2-SR1,
  7. Excursion venue: Universal Studios Singapore,
  8. For medical emergencies: University Health Centre
    (PS: Participants are encouraged to have a Worldwide Medical Insurance coverage).

Schedule

The event will run from Thursday, 27 February 2025 until Sunday, 02 March 2025.
The rough breakdown of the contest dates are:

Time Event Venue
Thursday, 27 February 2025
12nn-8pm Arrival Day
We will pick teams from Changi to NUS COM3 building via taxi
(one taxi per team of four: 1 coach, 3 contestants, 2 luggages)
Teams will do registration, photo taking, and early-visit sponsor rooms at NUS COM3
Before going to hotel (PS: go straight to hotel if flight arrives after 7pm SGT)

Changi → COM3


COM3 → Hotel
Friday, 28 February 2025
8-8.30am Bus transfer Hotel → UCC
8.30-9am Leadership Welcome
For VIPs, ICPC HQ reps, RCDs, ISC and ITC chair, global and local sponsors
UCC VIP Lounge
Late Registration
For (expected only a few) teams who arrived after 7pm SGT on 27 Feb
UCC
9.15-10am Global Sponsor(s) Tech Talk 1
Jane Street
10-11am Opening Ceremony
Performance 1/Lion Dance (intro)
Welcome speeches (speakers lineup TBC)
Performance 2
Team introduction 1 (South Korea (~10+), Japan (~10+), Taiwan (~10+))
Performance 3
Team introduction 2 (Vietnam (~10+), Indonesia (~10+), Singapore, South Pacific, and the rest)
11-11.45am Global Sponsor(s) Tech Talk 2
Huawei
12nn-1pm Welcome Lunch
1-1.30pm Bus transfer UCC → COM3
1.30-2.45pm Visit sponsor rooms
For global and local sponsors
COM3; SR12-15
2.45-3pm Contestants enter contest floor COM3-1-MPH
3-5.30pm Practice Session
Teams need to bring their team notebooks to the practice session
and leave them at the workstation after the practice station
The last 30 minutes are for Q&A Session
5.30-7pm Dinner / visit sponsor rooms COM3; SR12-15
7-7.30pm Bus transfer COM3 → Hotel
Saturday, 01 March 2025
9-9.30am Bus transfer Hotel → COM3
9.45-10am Contestants enter contest floor COM3-1-MPH
10am-3pm The 5-hours Contest
With livestream (TBC), reference: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 version
Contestants will have lunch outside COM3-1-MPH (quick-bite type)
Non-contestants will have lunch at a separate venue (COM1-2-SR1-foyer, 12-1pm)
3-4.30pm Rest / visit sponsor rooms COM3; SR12-15
4.30-5pm Bus transfer COM3 → UCC
VIP Arrival
UCC VIP Lounge
5.30-7pm Closing Ceremony
Photo/Video Montage of 27 Feb+28 Feb+01 Mar morning
Closing speeches (speakers lineup TBC)
Performance 1
ICPC Resolver (until just before the first World Finals 25 slot)
Performance 2
Announcing the 2025 World Finalist teams* and the ICPC Asia Pacific 2025 Champion
* (usually around ~[12..15] teams)
Performance 3 (outtro)
UCC
7-8.30pm Celebration Dinner
8.30-9pm Bus transfer UCC → Hotel
Sunday, 02 March 2025
9-10am Bus transfer (if joining excursion, i.e., outbound flight ≥4pm SGT)
Airport transfer via taxi (otherwise)
Hotel → Sentosa
Hotel → Changi
10am-6pm Excursion
Details TBC
USS
2-8pm Departure
Teams are encouraged to depart from Singapore
only in the late evening or night (i.e., ≥4pm, if possible)
We will send foreign teams from USS to Changi via taxi
approximately ~2 hours before their scheduled departure time
The remaining foreign teams will be sent to Changi Airport by 8pm
USS → Changi

Reference: The Old 2024 Schedule.

The Previous ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2024, Hanoi, Vietnam

The previous ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2024 website is no longer live (see Web Archive).
But the AP Championship 2024 Scoreboard and the photo gallery can still be accessed.

Organizing Committees

ICPC Asia Director
Professor C Jinshong Hwang
ICPC Asia Pacific Director
Professor Katsuhiko Kakehi (email: [email protected])
ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2025 Director
Associate Professor Steven Halim (email: [email protected])
A/Prof Halim is the main point of contact for the ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2025
Deputy Director
Associate Professor Tan Sun Teck (email: [email protected])
Administration
Irene Ong Hwei Nee (email: [email protected]),
Teo Pei Pei
International Judge Committee
Jonathan Irvin Gunawan (ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2024 chief judge),
Other Judge members (TBC)
Host Scientific Committee
Members TBC
International Technical Committee
Associate Professor Rie Shigetomi Yamaguchi, The University of Tokyo (chair),
Other ITC members (TBC)
Host Technical Committee
Musa Bin Hashim (SoC IT Unit),
Other members (TBC)
Host Volunteer Coordinator
Dr Jithin Vachery
Dr Eldon Chung
Ceremonies (Opening/Closing)
Dr Adi Yoga Sidi Prabawa
Transportation
Dr Daren Ler Shan Wen
Accommodation
Outsourced to one or two hotel(s) — TBC
Website
Felicia Limanta
Publicity
SoC Communications (TBC)