This is a preliminary webpage for ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2025.
This event will be hosted by National University of Singapore, School of Computing
and organised by NUS gate.io.
Top 65 teams (195 distinct contestants and up to 65 coaches) from 5 other ICPC Asia Regionals in Nov-Dec 2024 (see below), inclusive of 2 invited teams from South Pacific Regionals will be invited for this ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2025:
Top X (usually ≈[12..15]) teams in this championship will advance to the ICPC World Finals 2025.
The winner will be crowned as Asia Pacific Champion 2025.
Please read the information about ICPC Asia Pacific Championship (2024-25 cycle) for more details.
Qualified teams will be automatically promoted to the contest in the ICPC global system.
The coach of qualified teams will be contacted by the organiser to confirm the intention to participate and follow up with the registration process.
Teams then need to pay a registration fee of [amount TBC] SGD per team via [method TBC].
Most citizens of Asia Pacific countries do not need visa to enter Singapore except a few.
These are the list of important venues for this event:
The event will run from Thursday, 27 February 2025 until Sunday, 02 March 2025.
The rough breakdown of the contest dates are:
| Time | Event | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, 27 February 2025 | ||
| 12nn-8pm | Arrival Day We will pick teams from Changi to NUS COM3 building via taxi (one taxi per team of four: 1 coach, 3 contestants, 2 luggages) Teams will do registration, photo taking, and early-visit sponsor rooms at NUS COM3 Before going to hotel (PS: go straight to hotel if flight arrives after 7pm SGT) |
Changi → COM3 COM3 → Hotel |
| Friday, 28 February 2025 | ||
| 8-8.30am | Bus transfer | Hotel → UCC |
| 8.30-9am | Leadership Welcome For VIPs, ICPC HQ reps, RCDs, ISC and ITC chair, global and local sponsors |
UCC VIP Lounge |
| Late Registration For (expected only a few) teams who arrived after 7pm SGT on 27 Feb |
UCC | |
| 9.15-10am | Global Sponsor(s) Tech Talk 1 Jane Street |
|
| 10-11am | Opening Ceremony Performance 1/Lion Dance (intro) Welcome speeches (speakers lineup TBC) Performance 2 Team introduction 1 (South Korea (~10+), Japan (~10+), Taiwan (~10+)) Performance 3 Team introduction 2 (Vietnam (~10+), Indonesia (~10+), Singapore, and the rest) |
|
| 11-11.45am | Global Sponsor(s) Tech Talk 2 Huawei |
|
| 12nn-1pm | Welcome Lunch | |
| 1-1.30pm | Bus transfer | UCC → COM3 |
| 1.30-2.45pm | Visit sponsor rooms For global and local sponsors |
COM3; SR12-15 |
| 2.45-3pm | Contestants enter contest floor | COM3-1-MPH |
| 3-5.30pm | Practice Session Teams need to bring their team notebooks to the practice session and leave them at the workstation after the practice station The last 30 minutes are for Q&A Session |
|
| 5.30-7pm | Dinner / visit sponsor rooms | COM3; SR12-15 |
| 7-7.30pm | Bus transfer | COM3 → Hotel |
| Saturday, 01 March 2025 | ||
| 9-9.30am | Bus transfer | Hotel → COM3 |
| 9.45-10am | Contestants enter contest floor | COM3-1-MPH |
| 10am-3pm | The 5-hours Contest With livestream (TBC), reference: Sat, 02 Mar 2024 version Contestants will have lunch outside COM3-1-MPH (quick-bite type) Non-contestants will have lunch at a separate venue (COM1-2-SR1-foyer, 12-1pm) |
|
| 3-4.30pm | Rest / visit sponsor rooms | COM3; SR12-15 |
| 4.30-5pm | Bus transfer | COM3 → UCC |
| VIP Arrival |
UCC VIP Lounge | |
| 5.30-7pm | Closing Ceremony Photo/Video Montage of 27 Feb+28 Feb+01 Mar morning Closing speeches (speakers lineup TBC) Performance 1 ICPC Resolver (until just before the first World Finals 25 slot) Performance 2 Announcing the 2025 World Finalist teams* and the ICPC Asia Pacific 2025 Champion * (usually around ~[12..15] teams) Performance 3 (outtro) |
UCC |
| 7-8.30pm | Celebration Dinner | |
| 8.30-9pm | Bus transfer | UCC → Hotel |
| Sunday, 02 March 2025 | ||
| 9-10am | Bus transfer (if joining excursion, i.e., outbound flight ≥4pm SGT) Airport transfer via taxi (otherwise) |
Hotel → Sentosa Hotel → Changi |
| 10am-6pm | Excursion Details TBC |
USS |
| 2-8pm | Departure Teams are encouraged to depart from Singapore only in the late evening or night (i.e., ≥4pm, if possible) We will send foreign teams from USS to Changi via taxi approximately ~2 hours before their scheduled departure time The remaining foreign teams will be sent to Changi Airport by 8pm |
USS → Changi |
Reference: The Old 2024 Schedule.
The previous ICPC Asia Pacific Championship 2024 website is no longer live (see Web Archive).
But the AP Championship 2024 Scoreboard and the photo gallery can still be accessed.