Huawei Optimization Tournament 2025-2026
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
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Rank
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Who
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Group
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Country
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Final Score
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| 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
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Rank
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Who
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Group
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Country
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Final Score
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| 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
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Rank
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Who
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Group
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Points
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Round 1
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Round 2
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| 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
- 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
- The final tournament leaderboard will be determined based on a participant's total points.
- 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.
- To receive a tournament prize, upon request, a winner has to provide organizers with a short video for marketing purposes.
- 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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