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  Huawei Optimization Tournament 2025-2026

Contest
HOT 2025-2026 • Round 2
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Algotester together with Huawei announces the Huawei Optimization Tournament 2025-2026! HOT is a free online programming contest for individual participants. The tournament consists of 3 rounds approximately one week long each. In every round, participants will face a single optimization problem and the top performers will be awarded cash prizes. When all rounds are over, the tournament winners will be determined based on the scoring system. The top three of them will receive grand tournament prizes:

  • 🥇 Winner - $2500
  • 🥈 Runner-up - $1500
  • 🥉 Third place - $1000

Round 2 results

Rank
Who
Group
Country
Final Score
1 Bōméi Huá Professional China 110  807  039
2 Jude Wallis School United States of America 110  756  248
3 Bohdan Chikh Professional Ukraine 110  742  042
4 Bīn Zhang Professional China 110  652  389
5 Vitalii Mozhushyn University Ukraine 110  650  073
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Top 5 participants in student category

Rank
Who
Group
Country
Final Score
1 Jude Wallis School United States of America 110  756  248
2 Vitalii Mozhushyn University Ukraine 110  650  073
3 Max Kovalchuk University Ukraine 110  585  617
4 Luke Finigan School United States of America 110  445  410
5 Alvaro Fernandez University Spain 110  404  976

Round 2

The Round 2 final results are published.

Round 2 is scheduled for September 12-20, 2026 with the following cash prizes:

  • Winner - $1500
  • Runner-up - $1000
  • Third place - $500
  • Fourth place - $300
  • Fifth place - $200

Additionally, the top 5 students (participants in groups University and School) will receive bonus prizes:

  • First place + $1500
  • Second place + $1000
  • Third place + $500
  • Fourth place + $300
  • Fifth place + $200

Previous Competitions and Practice Mode

The past tournament details and results are available on event pages of HOT 2024, HOT 2023, HOT 2022, and HOT 2021. All optimization problems are available in practice mode, so you can continue improving your solutions. For each problem, there is a separate scoreboard. Good luck and have fun!

Discussion

After the contest, contestants are welcome to discuss the problem in our Discord.

About Algotester

Algotester is a modern platform for organizing competitive programming events. We host regular algorithmic contests for both students and professionals. The website contains a large problem archive with tasks of various difficulties that can be used to learn algorithms and practice coding. Algotester supports ICPC-style contests, as well as IOI and marathon-like optimization challenges.

Tournament Rounds

Round 1 results Round 2 results

Tournament Standings

Rank
Who
Group
Points
Round 1
Round 2
1 Bōméi Huá Professional 27 2 25
2 Benjamin Butin Professional 25 25 0
3-4 Michael Chelli University 18 18  
3-4 Jude Wallis School 18   18
5-6 Roman Sadovnikov School 15 15  
5-6 Bohdan Chikh Professional 15   15
7 Vicente Opazo University 14 12 2
8 Bīn Zhang Professional 12 0 12
9-10 Benjamin Rubio University 10 10  
9-10 Vitalii Mozhushyn University 10 0 10
11-12 tang panlin University 8 8 0
11-12 Max Kovalchuk University 8   8
13-14 Davide Bartoli University 6 6  
13-14 Luke Finigan School 6   6
15-16 Adam Soltan University 4 4  
15-16 Alvaro Fernandez University 4 0 4
17-18 Daniel Bonniot De Ruisselet Professional 1 1  
17-18 Michał Dobranowski University 1 0 1

Tournament Scoring

  1. For each round top 10 competitors with positive score will receive tournament points according to the following distribution:
    • 1-st place: 25 points
    • 2-nd place: 18 points
    • 3-rd place: 15 points
    • 4-th place: 12 points
    • 5-th place: 10 points
    • 6-th place: 8 points
    • 7-th place: 6 points
    • 8-th place: 4 points
    • 9-th place: 2 points
    • 10-th place: 1 point
  2. The final tournament leaderboard will be determined based on a participant's total points.
  3. If two or more participants have the same number of points, a tie-breaker system is used. The one with the most wins is ranked higher. If the number of wins is the same, it goes to the one with the most second places and so on.
  4. To receive a tournament prize, upon request, a winner has to provide organizers with a short video for marketing purposes.
  5. Emails with detailed instructions will be sent to tournament prize winners.

Terms and Conditions

HOT 2025-2026 Round 2 Terms and Conditions are available here.


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