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Facebook Hacker Cup 2018
By chari407, history, 6 years ago, In English

Hi, when will FHC 2018 be held? is there any announcement regarding it?

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6 years ago, # |
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I am also a bit worried that there was no announcement so far :(. Summon wjomlex

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it is to be held in january 2018.

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    How do you know that? I assumed the same, but now when I looked a little more carefully I see there is no information regarding it. Or at least nothing official or easy to find.

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      6 years ago, # ^ |
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      if you see last year results reveal of the hacker cup, they mentioned that 2018 hacker cup will start off in january 2018. yes of course their is no official announcement yet, i guess we have to keep checking for one.

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I think the registrations are open through this link: https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/register .But yeah no other updates till now!

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    very outdated except from the headline :D

    Registration opens on November 5, _2016_ at 6:00 PM Pacific Time (PT) in the United States and closes at the end of the qualification round on January 9, _2017_ at 4:00 PM PT.

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    I might be mistaken, but lol, actually, this link is working now, it shows "Welcome to the 2018 Hacker Cup", and allowed me to register, however, there is no official announcements yet.

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Does anyone have any updates? I've missed hackercup for a couple of times in the previous years. :)

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    Doesn't seem like it will be in January, that's for sure.

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    I asked about it in last year's secret group for finalists. The question is "seen by 15" and some organizers are also in the "seen" list, but there's no answer. I guess it's either undecided or secret.

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I even haven't received last year t-shirt yet, does anyone know how to contact to them ? i tried sending them an email but they haven't responsed to me

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Maybe they wanna pay prizes for FBHC 2016, before the new one is held. jk

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Did anyone receive last year T-shirt?

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Update on Facebook Hacker Cup 2018

We want to give a quick update on what's going on with Hacker Cup this year. We're taking a short break to make some improvements to contest quality and logistics, and as such, we won't be holding Hacker Cup in the first half of this year. Depending on how quickly we're able to make these improvements, we hope to have a contest towards the end of this year. We want to thank you all for your patience, and we look forward to seeing your submissions when we're back. Please stay tuned for news later in 2018.

Happy Hacking, The Hacker Cup Team

this was post on facebook.

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There's a fresh post on https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/ saying that "we hope to have a contest towards the end of this year" :(

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Hi think it won't be held in first half of 2018.

https://www.facebook.com/hackercup/posts/1759716250727222

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There is an update for hackercup 2018 here . It will be in the second half of 2018

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Announced

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1915605128471666&id=133954286636768

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    When will they announce shipping their T-shirts?

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    Does anyone know what are the logistics improvements they are talking about? I'm curious if they decided to do something similar to GCJ (submit solutions instead of output files)

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    Why is there a rule of being 18+?

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      It's the same with GCJ, TCO and almost any other event with onsite finals. Probably it's just legal stuff. I mean on most sites you're supposed to have the consent of an adult to use them if you're a minor. But you can compete in it and win a T-shirt, you're just ineligible for the finals. The rule is stupid, of course, but fortunately it only affected very few people who were able to make it to finals when they got older anyway. I'm sorry for those but usually if you're good enough to make it to finals of such an event when you're under 18, then probably it won't make a huge difference (as you'll achieve so much more)

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        No, its fine if this rule is only for the finals, but I think this rule applies to online rounds as well. Ofcourse we can register as someone else and take part but that would not be legal.

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          where are the problems

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            Hackercup will start on 6th of JULY. You can find past round problems here.

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          Wow that's quite strange. I mean I know a lot of people (including me) who competed when they were not 18 and even got some shirts. Even more, those had their birthday open to facebook, like the easiest check would've said nope you're not eligible and it still worked out well. Indeed looking in the terms and conditions it seems under 18 can't compete:)) But as I said probably they just don't care. Nobody's going to sue you for competing while being under 18

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          On a different blog post somebody from the Facebook team wrote, that it only applies for the final.

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          This is the age rule of Facebook Hacker Cup

          "2. ELIGIBILITY. This Competition is open to individuals who are registered users of the Facebook Service, have agreed to these Terms, and are at least 18 years of age or older on the date of Registration for the Competition."

          and the age rule from Google code jam is

          "1. Age. You may participate in the Contest only if you are 13 years of age or older at the time of registration, but you must be 18 years of age or older at the time of registration to be eligible for the onsite final round; if not, you are only eligible to win a t-shirt."

          If Facebook can modify its rule to something similar to GCJ, it will be great!

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      You Can Participate if you less than 18 But You can't Go To Onsite Finals

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      You Can Participate of You lower Than 18 But You Can't Participate in Onsite

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It nowhere asked for my age during registration.

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