Hosting Contests on CodeChef

About

One of our aims with CodeChef is to foster learning and growth among people who are passionate about programming through healthy competition and knowledge sharing. We, at CodeChef, are glad to help out if your college, festival, event, user group, club, company or camp wants to host a contest on our platform.

What Can We Do for You?

• We can host and publicize your online contest on CodeChef.com at no cost.
• The contest can accept solutions in 35+ programming languages like C, C++\, Java, Python to name a few.
• We'd be happy to provide CodeChef T-shirts, laptop stickers etc as giveaways for your contest.
• We can design banners to feature on the home page and contest landing page of our site.
• We will announce your contest in our Monthly Newsletter that goes out to our user base (20,000+ extremely targeted audience)
• We will ensure that your contest sponsors receive optimum visibility through CodeChef

What Can You Do for Us in Return?

Since CodeChef is a non-profit initiative, we would like to be recognized as the "Programming Partner" for your event. We would really appreciate it if you could put our logo on all the marketing collaterals like posters, banners etc. in the partners section and not as sponsors. We hope that you will acknowledge us on your Website and email communication as well.

Important Points to Consider

• What are the dates on which you would like to hold the contest?
• What is the magnitude of participation you are expecting?
• Do you want the contest to be available to everyone, or just registered users of your event?
• Do you have problem setters available, who can develop interesting, challenging problems with the appropriate level of difficulty? Our previous contests should give you an idea of the standard of problems expected.

Open Contests

• In an open-for-all competition, it is imperative for us to ensure that the problems match CodeChef standards. Check out the problems in our previous contests to gauge our levels of difficulty.
• The process of planning, reviewing and setting up a contest could take anywhere between 3-5 weeks. Hence it is advised that you get in touch with us 2 months in advance at least.
• If the need be, we are willing to help in problem setting. However, there is a cost involved in this and since we are a non profit entity, we would then require you to share the problem setting costs with us

Closed Group Contests

• We can restrict access for email Ids belonging to a certain domain name for a closed contest.
• The standards are relaxed for a contest that is limited to a closed group like an intra level college contest.

• CodeChef will fully attribute all the questions to the problem setters in a closed contest and will not claim responsibility for the standard of the contest.

If you like our program and want us to host your contest, go right ahead and fill up the application form