Overview

Eligibility

Conditions of Participation

Structure

Prizes

Eligibility

All TopCoder members who are 18 years of age or older may attempt to qualify for the TCO. 500 members will qualify either through Qualification Rounds or by receiving an automatic berth.

Qualification Rounds
All members who have not already qualified for the Coding Tournament can compete in the Qualifying Rounds. The top 200 scorers from each of the two Qualification Rounds will be eligible to compete in Online Round 1. The Qualification Rounds will be held on Tuesday, October 7th and Thursday, October 9th.

Automatic Berths
The 100 highest rated TopCoder members as of October 7th who have participated in at least three (3) TopCoder rated events (i.e., Single Round Matches and previous tournaments) prior to October 7th, with at least one (1) of those events being between July 7th and October 7th, will receive an automatic berth into Online Round 1.

Please note that the top 100 rated members with automatic berths will not be permitted to compete in the Qualification Rounds. In addition, the members qualifying for the tournament in Qualification Round #1 will not be permitted to compete in Qualification Round #2.

Eligibility
TopCoder members who are 18 years of age or older are eligible to win cash prizes, unless otherwise prohibited. The TopCoder Open is void in the Quebec province of Canada, and elsewhere where prohibited by applicable law. Cash prizes will not be paid to residents of Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, or Syria.

Employees of TopCoder, Inc. and those involved in the production (including prize suppliers), implementation and distribution of this tournament and their advertising or promotion agencies, parent companies, service providers, agents, officers, subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other persons or entities directly associated with the tournament and members of the immediate families and/or persons living in the same household as such persons, are ineligible to enter the tournament.