CTU Open Contest, 2023

Welcome to the web pages of CTU Open Contest 2023 - programming contest organised by the Czech Technical University in Prague. CTU Open 2023 will be held on 20 and 21 Oct 2023 in Prague, Brno, Pilsen, Ostrava, Banská Bystrica, Bratislava, Žilina and Košice.

This contest is primarily intended for full-time university students, also others can participate in unofficial standing. Detailed information is written on the Registration page.

The best teams from this subregional contest can participate in Central European Regional Contest (CERC 2023), which will take place in Ljubljana 8 - 10 December 2023. In this Regional Contest teams will be fighting for participation in the ICPC World Finals 2024

Number of teams in CTU Open is limited to 100 teams and the registration police is "First come - First go".
Registration is opened until 19 Oct. Instructions how to sign up are available. The schedule of competition and the list of registered teams are also available.

If you can not find a team of three, do not hesitate and register for CTU Open alone. We will try to find some of teammates for the contest.

The following programming languages are available: Java, C++, C and Python.
It is also advisable to read the technical rules. More information is available at the global web pages.

The rules for using the literature: Contestants may use any literature in paper form (books, manuals, printouts, dictionaries). Contestants are not allowed to use literature in electronic form or any other software or data.
To advance to the regional contest it is necessary to comply rules represented in The Eligibility Decision Tree.

The problems will be written in English, the events including problem set discussion will be in the Czech language.

Recommended study materials are Algorithms lectures on YouTube and this curriculum web page.

The Prague site of the competion CTU Open 2023 will take place in the CTU FEE building on Karlovo náměstí 13. The registration will take place in the glass entrance hall.