BME International 24-hour Programming Contest, organised jointly by The Electrical Engineering Students’ Hungarian Association and Karoly Simonyi College for Advanced Studies, provides a platform for the programmers to showcase and measure their capabilities and to compare themselves with other programmers. 30 best teams will be selected through a qualifying round(Electronic Contest), where in the teams have to solve the problems announced on the internet and the selected teams will be invited to participate in the finals to be held in Budapest, Hungary. In the finals the teams will have to complete a single but very complex task in 24 hours. Participants can use their own computers without any restrictions to the Operating Systems and programming platform.

Awards: The total amount of the awards is more than 5000 EUR.

Important Dates:
Deadline for Registration: February 17, 2008
Electronic Contest (Preliminary) : February 24, 2008
Final Event Date: May 2-4, 2008

Applications will be accepted from groups of three participants from any country. The competition is open for everybody and free of charge, there is no registration fee! In the first, qualifying round of the contest (Electronic Contest) teams have to solve problems announced on the Internet. The 30 best teams (inculding the top 3 teams from last year) will be invited to Budapest, Hungary, where they will have to complete a single but very complex task in 24 hours. Participants use their own computers without any restrictions to operating system, development tools or programming platform. You can use any printed material, anything you ever imagined, except communication equipment: internet, mobile phones, etc.

For more details CLICK HERE http://www.challenge24.org/2008/