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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.
 
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