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author https://github.com/breck7 Breck Yunits
date 2019.09.04 12:00:00 -8000
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title How many major global programming competitions are there?

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I have done many problems on Project Euler but I've never participated in competitive programming. The other day I got curious, what does the competitive programming landscape look like?
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 https://projecteuler.net Project Euler
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_programming competitive programming

I started my quest by watching a great interview with a competitive programmer. Then I did some searching. Below are my results.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4rykKLcduI interview
 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBr_Fu6q9iHYQCh13jmpbrg competitive programmer

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# There are 16 major programming competitions

* The first one started in 1970. A few of the newer ones are online only.

# Most of them started or are hosted in the USA

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# The List

Below is the up-to-date list. You can contribute to it on the GitHub.
 link ../lists/competitions.html list

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# Gennady Korotkevich
I came across one interesting stat in my research. Gennady Korotkevich is a programmer who is currently the highest rated programmer on _all_ 5 of the major competitive programming sites!
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Korotkevich Gennady Korotkevich

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# Future work
It would be interesting to see trends in the number of participants and prize amounts in these competitions over time. I'm curious if eSports with prizes in the millions, will sap people away from programming competitions.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esports eSports

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