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  Huawei Optimization Tournament 2025

Contest
HOT 2025 • Round 1
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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

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

  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.

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.

Discussion

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


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