Challenge Details

Soybean Grand Challenge > Soybean Grand Challenge

Please note that this event is being run for a TopCoder customer. By winning a prize in this event you agree to transfer ownership of your submission to TopCoder.

This is a summary with highlights of the challenge details. Please make sure to read all of the rules carefully before competing.

You must be eligible to compete in the match as defined in the rules.

In TopCoder Marathon Match events, the system will be testing submissions for optimization according to the scoring criteria outlined in the problem statement that is associated with this event. Each event may have a different scoring mechanism. Competitors will have to understand the scoring mechanism in order to effectively compete.

Participants may submit code written in the following languages: Java, C++, C#.NET, or VB.NET.

Once the submission phase of a Marathon Match has ended, final testing will run and may take several days to complete. Upon completion of final testing, the final results will become available in the Marathon Match Archive on the web site. Competitors will be able to see the test case details, other competitors' submissions, and all final results. For rated events, the ratings will be adjusted once results are final.

For more details on the Marathon Match format, click here

This Marathon Match has a $15,000 total prize purse! $3,000 of them are awarded as two sets of milestone prizes.

The first set of milestone prizes is awarded as follows: we take all solutions submitted no later than 1 week after the start of the match (1 PM, April 22; only last submission from each member) and evaluate them on all system test cases. The 3 highest scored submissions are milestone winners.

The second set of milestone prizes is awarded in the same fashion, but the deadline is 2 weeks after the start of the match (1 PM, April 29). Both sets of milestone prizes use the following prize distribution:

1st place -- $750
2nd place -- $500
3rd place -- $250

Since milestone results (and even the handles of milestone winners) reveal some information about system test cases, we will announce them only after the end of the match.

The final prize of $12,000 are awarded to 5 highest scoring submissions as follows:

1st place -- $6,000
2nd place -- $2,400
3rd place -- $1,800
4th place -- $1,200
5th place -- $600

In case of any ties, the corresponding prize money are distributed equally among all tied competitors. The date/time of submission does not matter.