CTU Open Contest, 2025

Welcome to the web pages of CTU Open Contest 2025 - programming contest organised by the Czech Technical University in Prague. CTU Open 2025 was held on 7. and 8. Nov 2025 in Prague, Brno, Ostrava, Banská Bystrica, Bratislava, Žilina and Košice. The best teams from this subregional contest can participate in Central European Regional Contest (CERC 2025), which will take place in Wroclaw in December 5-7, 2025. In this Regional Contest teams will be fighting for participation in the ICPC Europe Championship in Warsaw and in the ICPC World Finals 2026.

The following programming languages are available: Java, C++, C, Python and Kotlin.
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.

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.

Contestants are invited to take part in a pre-contest workshop organized by this year's sponsor. It will give them an opportunity to learn from successful participants from international competitions, including world finalists.