Huawei Optimization Tournament 2025
Algotester together with Huawei announces the Huawei Optimization Tournament 2025! The tournament consists of 3 rounds approximately one week long each. In every round, individual 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 1
Round 1 is scheduled for September 13-21 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
Round 1 results
Rank |
Who |
Group |
Country |
Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Benjamin Butin |
Professional | United States of America | 1 399 877 385 |
| 2 | Michael Chelli |
University | Italy | 1 391 624 744 |
| 3 | Roman Sadovnikov |
School | Ukraine | 1 375 542 799 |
| 4 | Vicente Opazo |
University | Chile | 1 371 467 185 |
| 5 | Benjamin Rubio |
University | United States of America | 1 370 677 345 |
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Top 5 participants in student category
Rank |
Who |
Group |
Country |
Final Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Chelli |
University | Italy | 1 391 624 744 |
| 2 | Roman Sadovnikov |
School | Ukraine | 1 375 542 799 |
| 3 | Vicente Opazo |
University | Chile | 1 371 467 185 |
| 4 | Benjamin Rubio |
University | United States of America | 1 370 677 345 |
| 5 | tang panlin |
University | China | 1 365 926 004 |
Round 1 results
The Round 1 final results are listed below.
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.
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!
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.
Tournament Prizes
When the tournament is over, the top 3 participants will receive the following cash prizes:
- Winner - $2500
- Runner-up - $1500
- Third place - $1000
Terms and Conditions
HOT 2025 Round 1 Terms and Conditions are available here.
HOT 2025 Round 1 Terms and Conditions
- Your agreement to these terms and conditions
- 1.1 By registering for the competition, you accept these terms and conditions.
- 1.2 In these terms and conditions where we refer to the ‘Participant‘, we mean either an individual that has registered to enter the competition on its behalf.
- The Competition
- 2.1 The competition aims to motivate research of Algorithmic Programming. It is run by Algotester (the "Organiser"), and the competition is sponsored by Huawei (the "Sponsor").
- Eligibility
- 3.1 To be eligible to enter the competition, all Participants must
- 3.1.1 have an email address through which the Organiser can communicate with the Participant in connection with the competition;
- 3.1.2 be solely responsible for creating the competition submission;
- 3.1.3 not be a citizen or resident of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, North Korea, or Islamic Republic of Iran.
- 3.2 Other than the requirements set out in clause 3.1 above, there is no restriction on the nationality or residence status of any such Participants.
- 3.3 The Organiser’s employees, the employees of any company who are or were involved in creating or implementing the competition and their respective immediate family members, are excluded from participating in the competition.
- 3.4 In entering the competition, Participants confirm that they are eligible to do so and acknowledge that they may be required to provide proof of their eligibility to enter. The Organiser reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all Participants and to disqualify anyone who it determines (at its sole discretion) are not eligible. The Organiser also reserves the right to disqualify Participants if their conduct is contrary to the spirit or intention of the competition or they are in breach of any of these conditions.
- 3.5 Participation in the competition is free of charge and does not require the purchase of goods or services.
- 3.1 To be eligible to enter the competition, all Participants must
- How to enter
- 4.1 The competition registration opens on 29-th August 2025. The Competition itself commences on September 13-th 2025 and ends at midnight on 21-th September 2025 (the "Deadline"). Any competition submission after the Deadline will be automatically rejected.
- 4.2 Participants can use any of the competition programming languages they wish. However, any cheating is not permitted and any such entries will be disqualified.
- 4.3 Participants are permitted to submit a maximum of one entry per 10 minutes only to the competition.
- 4.4 The Organiser and Sponsor accept no responsibility for incomplete, incorrect, lost, or delayed entries to the competition regardless of cause, including, for example, any malfunctions or failures in the Evaluation System, any equipment failure, technical malfunction or systems, network, server, computer hardware or software failure of any kind.
- Determination and notification of winners
- 5.1 The final ranking and the competition winners will be announced until midnight on 28-st September 2025.
- The Prizes
- 6.1 The competition prizes are as listed below:
- First prize: $1500.
- Second prize: $1000.
- Third prize: $500.
- Fourth prize: $300.
- Fifth prize: $200.
- First prize: + $1500.
- Second prize: + $1000.
- Third prize: + $500.
- Fourth prize: + $300.
- Fifth prize: + $200.
- 6.2 The winners will be responsible for any taxes or charges incurred in claiming their respective prizes.
- 6.3 The Organiser or Sponsor shall not be responsible or accept any liability in respect of the inability of a winner to take up a prize.
- 6.4 Prizes are subject to availability and the Organiser reserves the right to replace the prize with an alternative prize of equal or higher value if circumstances beyond the Organiser’s control make it necessary to do so.
- 6.5 The prize is not negotiable. Exchange of a prize or their transfer to other persons is excluded.
- 6.1 The competition prizes are as listed below:
- Rights of Use
- 7.1 The Participant acknowledges that the Organiser and Sponsor’s Material is owned by the Organiser and Sponsor and that the Participant is only permitted to use, for the duration of the Competition only, the Organiser and Sponsor’s Material to test and submit entries to the competition.
- 7.2 The Participants agree to keep the Organiser and Sponsor’s Material confidential and shall not disclose them to any other individual or entity.
- 7.3 The Organiser acknowledges that the code created and used by the Participants submitted as a competition entry (the "Code") is owned by the submitting Participants.
- 7.4 The Participants warrant that the Code will not infringe any third party rights, including copyright and other intellectual property rights (e. g. patents, trademarks, design rights, know-how, etc.) and that the Participants have the right to grant a license to the Organiser and Sponsor under clause 7.5.
- 7.5 The Participants hereby grant the Organiser and Sponsor a non-exclusive limited right to access and create copies of the Code, to evaluate that the submission to enter the competition is valid and that it otherwise complies with these conditions.
- 7.6 The Participants hereby agree to give the Sponsor, for 1 year from the date submitted its Code by the Participants on the Evaluation System, the exclusive right of first refusal to exploit the Code, on such terms as the Sponsor and the Participants may agree separately in writing.
- 7.7 If the Sponsor and the Participants cannot agree on terms in connection with the Code within 3 months of the Sponsor first notifying the Participant that it would like to exploit the Code, then the Participants will be entitled to enter into negotiations and conclude an agreement with any third party with a view to such third party acquiring those rights provided that the Participants will not agree on terms with any third party that is less favorable to the Participants than those which were proposed by the Sponsor.
- Limitation of Liability
- 8.1 Insofar as is permitted by law, the Organiser and the Sponsor, and its agents or distributors will not in any circumstances be responsible or liable to compensate a winner or accept any liability for any loss, damage, personal injury, or death occurring as a result of taking up a prize except where it is caused by the intentional behavior of the Organiser or Sponsor, and its agents or distributors or that of their employees. A winner‘s statutory rights are not affected.
- 8.2 Participants acknowledge that the Organiser accepts no responsibility for any communications exchanged between Participants.
- Data Protection and publicity
- 9.1 By entering into this competition, the Participants agree to provide their personal information which will be used and disclosed by the Organiser and its authorized agents for competition administration and prize fulfillment.
- 9.2 Winners agree that the Organiser can use their name and photograph in promotional material in all formats worldwide, to publicize the winners of the competition, without any need or obligation to recompenses the Participants accordingly.
- Miscellaneous
- 10.1 In the event of circumstances outside the reasonable control of the Organiser or otherwise where fraud, abuse, and/or an error (human or technical) affects or could affect the proper operation of this competition or the awarding of prizes, the Organiser reserves the right to cancel or amend these conditions at any stage of this competition but will endeavor to minimize the effect to Participants to avoid undue disappointment.
- 10.2 If there is any conflict between the terms of these conditions and the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use of the Evaluation System, these conditions will prevail.
- 10.3 These terms and conditions shall be governed by Ukrainian law and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Ukraine.
Discussion
After the contest, contestants are welcome to discuss the problem in our Discord
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