Description
Will Code For Beer 2025 is a social event hosted by Visma at offices spread around the globe. Bring your colleagues to collaborate in solving entertaining programming problems in return for delicious beverages!
Registration: first, every single team member should be registered in Kattis platform. Then team can be created in the contest. More info - contact edgaras.legus@visma.com
Time: ⏲️⌚ competition can be started at any time locally at your office. It will be open at 10:00 UTC and will be closed at 23:00 UTC. Local facilitator will mark 4 hour mark.
Location: 🏢🏢 any Visma office you are working in or online.
Rules: 🗒️📝 whenever started, you have 4 hours to finish all the challenges. The team who solved most challenges - wins. If amount of points is the same - position is decided by timing - those who improve their scores earlier will be ranked higher. Teams can be of a maximum of 4 people. For detailed rules explanation take a look at Rules tab.
FAQ - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n_Jt_wfU-x_zbM75OjJZ3Hu977HxhAO7HV_ZHnbNzi0/edit?usp=sharing
Programming languages: 💻 20 different programming languages are accepted, including Java, Python, JavaScript, and various C dialects. See the Kattis language overview for the full list.
Beverages ordering: 🍻🍺 local facilitators decide on the beverages order locally for their offices. As well it is open to you to decide how you use it. Some offices can use beverage as per solved puzzle, some can just have the beverage for drinks and have prizes for best local teams.
Prizes: 🏆🏆 local facilitators decide on the prizes by themselves. Most important is to get fun!
Previous competitions and examples:
- 2021 https://visma-wcfb22.kattis.com/contests/vy4ghe
- 2022 https://visma-wcfb22f.kattis.com/contests/z8u4ff
- 2024 Spring https://open.kattis.com/contests/ercua7/problems
- 2024 Autumn https://open.kattis.com/contests/m5z3vq
Level specification
- A - Easy
- B - Easy
- C - Easy
- D - Easy
- E - Easy
- F - Easy
- G - Easy
- H - Easy
- I - Medium
- J - Medium
- K - Medium
- L - Hard
An excellent way to challenge your brain, and at the same time have a great time with your colleagues. Even though it’s a competition, people like to help each other to get the best experience! May the best team win!
Start & End Times
| Flexible Start Time |
2025-10-10 06:00
- 2025-10-11 01:00 CEST |
| End time | 2025-10-11 01:00 CEST |
Problems
Scoring
Partial Credit — Ranked (with tiebreaker)
Explanation:
Participants are ranked by the sum of the score of each problem. Ties are broken by the time of the last score-increasing submission
Standings
- Standings are shown without limitation.
Languages
Ada Algol 60 Algol 68 APL Bash BCPL BQN C C# C++ COBOL Common Lisp Crystal D Dart Elixir Erlang F# Forth Fortran Fortran 77 Gerbil Go Haskell Icon Java JavaScript (Node.js) JavaScript (SpiderMonkey) Julia Kotlin Lua Modula-2 Nim Objective-C OCaml Octave Odin Pascal Perl PHP PL/I Prolog Python 2 Python 3 Racket Ruby Rust Simula 67 Smalltalk SNOBOL Swift TypeScript Visual Basic Zig