Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.uz) — More than 20 teams qualified for the next stage of the North Eurasia ICPC competition in Kazakhstan following the ICPC Uzbekistan Regional Contest 2026 in Tashkent. A total of 79 teams from Uzbek universities took part.
The competition was held on 8 November at School 21. It was organised by Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Digital Technologies, IT Park Uzbekistan, IT Park University (ITPU) and School 21.
Participants tackled algorithmic problems requiring knowledge of programming, data structures, mathematical logic and optimisation methods.
Tashkent UIT’s Attack on Contest: THE LAST ATTACK team took first place. One Last Plov, representing the Moscow State University branch in Tashkent, finished second. Three Dinosaurs from New Uzbekistan University came third.
Nine teams received prizes. The first-, second- and third-placed teams were awarded a MacBook Pro, an iPad Pro and an iPad Air, respectively.
Teams finishing from fourth to ninth place received Fitbit devices.
The awards ceremony was attended by ICPC Uzbekistan Regional Director and IT Park Uzbekistan Director General’s Adviser Abdulakhad Kuchkarov, and Ministry of Digital Technologies representative Bakhodir Akhmedov.
Uzum established separate awards for three teams. Falcons from Webster University in Tashkent was recognised for being among the first to solve a problem successfully. Cyber from Cyber University received an award for making the most solution submission attempts. Asteroids from New Uzbekistan University was recognised for submitting the final successful solution in the last minute of the contest.
Each team received an Uzum voucher worth 5 million soums.
Yandex presented Yandex Drops headphones to coaches and activists involved in organising training camps and competitions.
ICPC is an international team-based competitive programming contest.
Teams usually consist of three students who have five hours to solve a set of algorithmic problems. Results are determined by the number of problems solved, the time taken and penalty time.
