Important Dates Registration Starts Monday, August 14th Qualification Round Tuesday, September 5th Championship Round Friday, October 27th

$165,000 in Cash & Prizes! 1st Place - $10,000 2nd - 10th Place - $5,000 11th - 25th Place - $2,500 26th - 50th Place - $1,000 51st - 100th Place - $750

Schedule

Qualification Round

Round	Date and Time*	# of Competitors	# of Advancers
Qualification Round	12:00 PM (Noon) September 5 to 12:00 PM (Noon) September 6, 2006	All eligible members	1,000
*NOTE: All times denoted as EDT (GMT/UTC -4).

Online Elimination Rounds
Everyone who advances to the online rounds must log in to the TopCoder Competition Arena no later than ten minutes prior to the start of the round. All start times will be communicated as EDT (GMT/UTC -4). 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 Competitors	# of Advancers
Online Round 1	September 14, 2006 10:00 AM	1,000	500
Online Round 2	September 19 10:00 AM	500	100
*NOTE: All times listed as EDT (GMT/UTC -4). In the event that an online round must be cancelled for any reason, the round will be held the next possible business day at the same time.

Onsite Championship Round
Up to 100 coders will compete at the onsite Championship Round at Google New York in New York City, New York, United States. Each finalist must be present onsite to compete in the Championship Round.

Round	Date and Time*	# of Participants
Championship Round	October 27, 2006 Time TBD	100
*NOTE: All times listed in EDT (GMT/UTC -4). The date and time of the Championship Round is subject to change with or without prior notice.

To find out more detailed information about the Google™ Code Jam 2006, please read the Terms and Conditions.