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Hackofiesta 2.0
Equinox presents Hack-o-Fiesta, Hackathon designed to inspire and empower young coders to pursue and develop their programming skills. Over the course of 36 hours, teams of 1 - 5 participants will work to develop a software project that encourages team spirit & helps to solve real-world problems.
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• Date : 16th April 9:00 PM IST to
18th April 8:00 AM IST
Prizes worth ₹ 60,000+
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Dream-in-Code
Dream-in-Code, a global coding competition, where programmers of all levels put their skills to the test. Competitors work their way through a series of online algorithmic puzzles to earn a spot at the finals, all for a chance to win the championship title and take a grand prize home.It is based on ACM style rounds that continue for 3 hours unless the information about the round states other duration time.
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• Date : TBA
• Prizes worth ₹ 20,000
- • You need to register to participate in a round.
- • Contestants are given 5-7 problems to solve unless the information about the round states another number of problems.
- • Problem statements are available in only a single language: English
- • Statements of all problems become available to read at the moment the round starts.
- • Rest information such as penalty and scores for each problem will be mentioned on the contest page.
Incognito 2.0
"Computers are good at following instructions, but not at keeping your secrets." The flagship CTF event, an international contest that gathers more than 300 teams from all around the globe. Your skills will be pushed to the limits by advanced real life cyber-attack scenarios prepared by Equinox cybersecurity experts. So get ready to capture the flags and rise to the top.
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• Date : 17th April 12:00 AM IST to
18th April 12:00 PM IST• Prizes worth ₹ 15,000
• Flag Format : ICTF{ABCD_S3XY}
- • This is a team contest with 1-4 members in each team.
- • The CTF is in jeopardy.
- • Please do not attack the competition infrastructure or other players. The challenges are your targets. That's it.
- • Please do not brute-force flags, share flags with other players, or explicitly and deliberately cheat.
- • Please do not blatantly ask for hints. The proper to way to ask for help is to explain what you have tried and showcase(in a direct message) what errors or output you may have.
Web Maniac
It's time to brush up and furnish your web development skills where the participants will be given a problem statement which will be devised in such a way that will test the two subdomains of Web Development: Frontend and Backend. This challenge will test your development instincts and will surely carve out a better developer in you.
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• Date : 17th April 12:00 PM IST to
6:00 PM IST• Prizes worth ₹ 10,000
- • Submission Platform: Github
- • The participant needs to develop the components given in the instructions document, you are free to work on some components while leaving the others. The more components you work on, the more points you earn.
- • Any tech-stack is applicable as long as it involves programming to develop the UI/Backend Components.
- • Person found with plagiarism or using any unfair means, will be disqualified.
Appophilia
For some, the thought of creating a mobile app from scratch sounds like an uphill task full of corny, complex coding activities. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Turn on the developer mode in your phones, assemble a team of 1 or 2 developers, pick your target problem from a set of austere but entrancing themes and unleash your creativity to create mobile app solutions using Java, Kotlin or Flutter framework.
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• Date : 16th April 12:00 PM IST to
6:00 PM IST• Prizes worth ₹ 5,000
- • Submission Platform: Github
- • This is a team contest with at most 2 members.
- • Participants can either work through Android Development or Flutter Development.
- • There are two tracks: UI Designing and Backend. The participant needs to develop its UI and implement other functionalities as directed during the event.
- • Person found with plagiarism or using any unfair means, will be disqualified.
CODUo
Here, you have to participate with either your coding partner or alone to solve some algorithmic problems full of logic building and other maths mastering puzzles. Coduo will take place in two steps, one is prelims to be held on “Codechef”, and second one is finals on a platform known as “Hackerearth”. This competition is focused on testing your problem solving, logical thinking and coding skills.
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• Date (prelims) : 14th April 8:30 PM IST to
11:30 PM IST• Date : 17th April 6:00 PM IST to
9:00 PM IST (Updated)• Prizes Worth ₹ 20,000 + 250 Codechef Laddoos for top 3
- • This is a team contest with at most 2 members. (Team of 1 or 2) .Teams qualified from prelims will be called to participate in finals.Prelims to be held on Codechef and Finals on HackerEarth.
- • Both members of the team are not bound to be from the same college or year.
- • Any participant found to be indulging in any form of malpractice will be immediately disqualified.
- • The rest of the rules such as time penalty and scores of the problems will be shown on the contest page at the time of the event
Long challenge
We are conducting Long Challenge, a 2-day coding competition, Inspired by codechef long challenges, where programmers of all levels put their skills to the test. Participants work their way through a series of competitive programming questions to earn a spot on top of the ranking, all for a chance to win the long challenge and take a grand prize home.
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• Date : 13th April 3:00 PM IST to
15th April 11:59 PM IST• Prizes Worth ₹ 2,000
- • This contest is limited to IIITL college students.
- • The challenge will be hosted on HackerEarth.
- • Partial scores will not be counted. Only those submissions will be accepted in which participants have earned full points.
- • The leaderboard will be prepared on the basis of submission time.
- • Solutions will be checked for plagiarism. Any plagiarism found will not be tolerated.
- • The rest of the rules such as time penalty and scores of the problems will be shown on the contest page at the time of the event.
FRESHERS’ CUP
Hone your coding skills with ACM-ICPC themed team based coding contests exclusively for all the freshers. This year’s contest kicks off with online qualifications. Top teams will then be invited to compete from our virtual finals. Let's see what you've got.
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• Date (prelims) : 16th April 2:00 PM IST to
5:00 PM IST• Date (finals) : 18th April 12:00 PM IST to
5:00 PM IST• Prizes worth ₹ 10,000
- • This contest is limited to 1st year students studying in IIIT Lucknow.
- • The contest will be hosted on HackerEarth.
- • This will be an ACM-ICPC style event and hence a team contest with up to 3 members in each team.
- • The decision of the organizers in declaring the results will be final. No queries in this regard will be entertained.
- • Any participant found to be indulging in any form of malpractice including browsing the internet will be immediately disqualified.
Codebite
“The lesser you code, the better you score" An onsite competitive programming contest where the participants don’t just need to solve the problems but write their code using the minimum number of characters. Solve the problems, optimize your code and shorten it. The shortest solution wins it all!
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• Date : 17th April 4:00 PM IST to
17th April 5:30 PM IST• Prizes worth ₹ 5,000
- • Contestants are given 4 - 6 problems to solve in 1.5 hours. You have to write the shortest possible code in the limited time for the given problems.
- • Lesser the characters you use in your code, the more you score.
- • The only programming languages allowed are C/C++.
- • Any participant found to be indulging in any form of malpractice including browsing the internet will be immediately disqualified.
- • Rest information such as penalty and scores for each problem will be mentioned on the contest page.
dConstruct
A resounding, single participant design event where the participants have to prepare a prototype in the App / Web domain depending on the theme provided to them.
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• Date : 16th April 2:30 PM IST to
18th April 2:30 PM IST• Prizes worth ₹ 4,000
- • It's a solo event
- • Theme/Topic will be announced at the starting day of equinox.
- • A window/google form will be open for submissions in which each participant has to provide a link to their work. Type of file format will be mentioned during the contest time.submission portal will be open from 2:30 pm to 4 pm on 18th April.
- • Again, no plagiarisation will be tolerated.
Bug Smashing
Presented by Equinox and Sauce Labs, Bug Smashing is a debugging event for both Web and Flutter App developers. The event will take place for 4 hours starting from 18th April, 1 PM IST to 5:30 PM IST. Further rules and links for the repositories will be provided to you on our discord server. The winner of the event will be awarded ₹10K worth prize and a swag kit from Sauce Labs.
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• Date : 18th April 01:00 PM to
18th April 05:30 IST• Prize : Worth INR 10,000 + Swag Pack
- • You will be provided repos of projects from both web and app.A participant can choose any one or multiple repos and work on their issues
- • 4 hour event: 1 hour to help you setup the projects locally
- • Then once the event starts, we will open 2-3 issues related to the bugs, periodically at an interval of 30 mins. The contestants need to try and solve the issues within next half hour.
- • The bugs will be of different levels, easy, medium and hard
- • A special prize for one that solves a certain number of issues in both web and app repos.