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• Participants should check this website regularly for updates on arrangements in case of bad weather.
• Application results have been released. List of participating schools:

  School	Official	Sub-team	# Students
  Buddhist Sin Tak College	1	2	7
  Carmel Pak U Secondary School	1	0	3
  Diocesan Boys' School	1	6	19
  Diocesan Girls' School	1	1	5
  Kwun Tong Maryknoll College	1	0	3
  La Salle College	1	0	3
  Lai King Catholic Secondary School	1	2	7
  N.T. Heung Yee Kuk Yuen Long District Secondary School	1	0	3
  Po Leung Kuk Choi Kai Yau School	1	0	3
  Po Leung Kuk No.1 W.H. Cheung College	1	0	3
  Premier School Affiliated to Hou Kong Middle School	1	0	3
  Pui Ching Middle School	1	3	12
  Pui Ching Middle School (Macau)	1	1	6
  Pui Kiu College	1	0	2
  Queen's College	1	2	8
  Singapore International School (Hong Kong)	1	0	2
  STFA Leung Kau Kui College	1	4	14
  Sing Yin Secondary School	1	3	11
  St. Mark's School	1	2	8
  Tsuen Wan Government Secondary School	1	6	21
  Wah Yan College, Hong Kong	1	3	12
  Wah Yan College, Kowloon	1	6	20
  Yan Oi Tong Tin Ka Ping Secondary School	1	1	4
  Ying Wa Girls' School	1	4	15
  Total	24	46	194

• Website for the 10th La Salle — Pui Ching Programming Challenge is now online.
• You may find some sample tasks HERE.
• Codeforces Gym: 9th (2025) 8th (2024) 7th (2023) 6th (2022) 5th (2021) 4th (2019) 3rd (2018), 2nd (2017), 1st (2016)

Rules

• This is a team contest for secondary school students. Each team shall consist of 2 to 3 students from the same school. Each school can send at most two 2-person teams.
• Each school can nominate 1 official team and unlimited number of sub teams.
• There will be 10 to 12 tasks, with no subtasks. Teams shall solve as most tasks as possible in 4 hours.
• Members within a team may communicate with each other, but not with other teams.
• Each team may only use 1 laptop. Teams must bring their own laptop. There will be no backup laptops.
• Teams may bring and use unlimited amount of non-electronic reference books and notes.
• Teams must not use any previously written code. Teams may only use basic document processing and software development software.
• The allowed programming languages are C++17 and Python 3. Pascal and C are no longer allowed.
• A verdict, either Accepted, Wrong Answer, Time Limit Exceeded, Runtime Error, or Compilation Error, will be given to each submission. Teams will not receive detailed results of each test.
• Wrong Answer, Time Limit Exceeded, Runtime Error are regarded as Rejected.
• The ranking will be made available to the teams, except during the last hour.
• Each team may print not more than 10 pages of PDF documents.

Ranking and Awards

• Teams are ordered by number of solved tasks, followed by the Penalty Time.
• Calculation of Penalty Time
  • No Penalty Time for Unsolved tasks
  • The Penalty for a solved task is the number of minutes past the beginning of the contest that it is solved, plus the number of Rejected submissions multipled by 20 minutes.
  • The total penalty time is the sum of the Penalty Times of each task.

• The 1st place official team will win the La Salle — Pui Ching Programming Challenge Cup.
• The 1st - 4th place teams will win the Gold award.
• The remaining official teams that solves a certain number of tasks (TBA) will win the Silver award.
• The remaining official teams that solves a certain number of tasks (TBA) will win the Bronze award.

• The sub teams that solves a certain number of tasks (TBA; same as Silver) will win the Distinction award.
• The remaining sub teams that solves a certain number of tasks (TBA; same as Bronze) will win the Merit award.

Apply

• Make a copy of the Application Form (Google Sheets)
• Get a sharable link
• 
• Please make sure that the link is accessible using Incognito Mode.
• Then paste link here:
  Contact email: Send
• Deadline: 16th July, 2026 (Thursday)
• Release of Application Results: 18th July, 2026 (Saturday)

Other Notes

• All contestants must wear proper school uniform. Team uniform, PE uniform, house tee, class tee etc are also acceptable but it must be consistent within a team.
• Tasks will only be available in English.
• There will be tasks of various difficulty in no particular order.
• Laptop requirements: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac to connect to the contest network. Charger cable of at least 2.5 meters.
• Peripheral keyboard and mouse are allowed. External displays are not allowed.
• Teachers may spectate inside the venue.
• The organiser will arrange photo-taking and video recording for promotional purposes.
• Enquiries: <>