Welcome to

Greater New York

North America, the area of

• • New York

  • New Jersey (all schools north of I-195)

  • Connecticut

Regional Contest Director Joe Terlizzi

PRACTICE CONTEST IS RUNNING NOW !!!

If you registered your team on the ICPC team registration site, and your team has been Accepted, you will receive an Email from Systems Team with your Practice Contest credentials (as an attachment) within a day or so of being accepted. Your coach will also receive a copy the credentials as well.

If your team has been accepted, and it’s been more than 48 hours and you have not received your credentials Email, check your spam folder and check with your coach first. If you still have not received the Email, please let the RCD, Joe Terlizzi, know.

2025 – 2026 Contest Registration Information

Important Dates

• Contest Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025
• Registration opens  on Saturday, October 4, 2025
• Registration ends on Friday, November 7, 2025

• Location: Columbia University

• A team can use their own laptop (Macs or PC).
• Please install the contest image and connect.
• Installation instructions as well as how to contact for technical support can be found here: ImageBurnUSB
• A team photo is required (preferably including the coach and with the ICPC T-Shirts) the week before the contest. Please submit your photo here: Team Photo Upload
• Number of computers per team: 1
• Regional Contest Technical Notes
• Regional Contest Environment

Rules

• You can find more contest rules here

Schedule

• 8:00am: Registration and Career Fair
• 8:00am – 11:00am: Breakfast
• 8:00am – 10:00am: Practice contest
• 10:00am – 11:00am: Opening Ceremony
• 11:00am – 4:00pm: Contest
• 1:00pm – 3:00pm: Coaches Meeting/Talks/Presentations
• 4:00pm – 5:30pm: Closing Ceremony and Dinner

Team Name

• Each team name must consist of the institution name (greater than 1 character but less than or equal to 8 characters) followed by a hyphen (-) followed by a team name (greater than 0 characters but less than or equal to 24 characters). Please note that spaces are counted as characters.
• Format:INSTITUTION-TEAMNAME
  INSTITUTION = University name or abbreviation. 1 < length(INSTITUTION ) <= 8.
  TEAMNAME = Your team name. 1 <= length(TEAMNAME) <= 24.Each individual institution must use the same name for the INSTITUTION field.Eg. If Binghamton University sends multiple teams each team must fill in the INSTITUTION field with the same name.BU-TEAMNAME1
  BU-TEAMNAME2
  BU-TEAMNAME3
  OR
  SUNYBING-TEAMNAME1
  SUNYBING-TEAMNAME2
  SUNYBING-TEAMNAME3

Cost

• $175 each team (including one coach per school), plus $50 per guest.

Eligibility

• Most first semester graduate students are allowed to participate. A team may be comprised of all first semester graduate students that meet eligibility requirements. If you have any questions about this please email the Contest Director
• For a complete list of rules and eligibility requirements, click here.

Practice Contest

• Each team will be required to participate in the ongoing practice contest.
• A link to the contest image will be emailed when available.
• Instructions to burn the image to an USB drive can be found here: ImageBurnUSB
• Each team will be assigned a login and password.
• Each team will be required to submit a correct and incorrect solution to a problem provided. This will help familiarize each team with the system and provide test data for the region.
• Failure to participate in one of the mock contests will result in a team receiving low priority should any technical issues arrise during the practice and/or actual contest on November 10.

If you are the First-time contestants create an account on the ICPC website here

If you are the Returning contestants make sure your ICPC profile information is up-to-date here (including shirt size)

If you are the Coaches, Once your contestants have accounts on the ICPC website, create your teams below the Register Now button

T-Shirts – Please make sure to fill out the correct sizes for yourself and your team. Shirts must be ordered weeks in advance