Schedule

Important Dates Registration Starts Wednesday, September 1st Qualification Round Wednesday, September 15th Championship Round Friday, October 15th

$50,000 in Cash Prizes! 1st Place - $10,000 2nd Place - $7,000 3rd Place - $5,000 4th Place - $3,000 5th Place - $2,000 6th to 50th Place will share $23,000

Qualification Rounds
The top 100 scorers from each problem set presented during the Qualification Round will be eligible to compete in Round 1 of the Code Jam 2004.

Round	Date and Time*	# of Participants	# of Advancers
Qualification Round	12:00 PM Wednesday, September 15 through 12:00 PM Thursday, September 16	All eligible members	500
*NOTE: All times are Eastern Time

Online Elimination Rounds
Everyone who competes in Round 1 must log in to the TopCoder Competition Arena no later than ten minutes prior to the start of the online round. All start times will be communicated as Eastern Time. If a coder does not participate, for any reason, in an online round he/she has advanced to, it will be treated as an automatic loss in that round of competition.

Round	Date and Time*	# of Participants	# of Advancers
Online Round 1	Monday, September 20th Register: 6:00 PM START: 9:00 PM	500	250
Online Round 2	Thursday, September 23rd START: 9:00 PM	250	50
NOTE: All times are Eastern Time. In the event that an online round must be cancelled for any reason, the "raindate" will be the following day at the same time.

Onsite Championship Round
Up to 50 coders will compete in the Championship Round being held onsite at Google's headquarters. Each finalist is responsible for arriving at Google's headquarters to compete.

Round	Date and Time*	# of Participants	# of Advancers
Championship Round	Friday, October 15th START: 3:45 PM	50	n/a
*NOTE: All times are Eastern Time. The time of the onsite round is subject to change.

To find out more detailed information about the Google Code Jam 2004, including a list of the prizes, please read the Terms and Conditions.