Tournament Information

This year we are running two BattleCode tournaments. Both tournaments will have identical gameplay and the specifications for the tournaments will be released in early January. Any team has the same eligibility status as its most eligible contestants. For example, if a team has one eligible MIT student, it would be eligible for all tournaments. If it had one eligible student from a participating university, it would be eligible for Open Tournament prizes. However, no team may compete if one of its members is currently employed by a BattleCode sponsor company.

The MIT tournament is the 6.370 competition you all know and love. We will have two weeks of lectures at MIT followed by our action-packed tournament in Kresge Auditorium at the start of February. Participation is limited to MIT students. Students must register using their Athena e-mail account.

The open tournament will run at the end of March. Almost anyone interested may participate (see below for exceptions). Open tournament participants will compete in the same fashion as MIT tournament participants. The Open Tournament will be held completely virtually. For dates and times, please see our calendar. Anyone may compete, but only students at participating universities may win prizes. Those universities are:

  • MIT
  • Alvernia University
  • Arizona State University
  • Baylor University
  • Berkeley
  • Biola University
  • Boise State University
  • Boston College
  • Boston University
  • Bowdoin College
  • Brandeis University
  • Brown
  • Butler University
  • California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
  • California State University Chico
  • California State University Northridge
  • CalTech
  • Cameron University
  • Carnegie Mellon
  • Carthage College
  • Case Western Reserve University
  • Central Michigan University
  • Chapman University
  • City University of New York
  • Claremont McKenna
  • Clark University
  • Clarkson University
  • Cogswell
  • Colby College
  • Colgate University
  • Colorado School of Mines
  • Columbia
  • Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
  • Cornell
  • Cornell College
  • Dalhousie University
  • Dartmouth
  • DePauw University
  • DeVry University
  • Dickinson College
  • Digipen
  • Drexel University
  • Duke
  • East Central University
  • Eastern Connecticut State University
  • Eastern New Mexico University
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University - Prescott, AZ
  • Evangel University
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University
  • Florida Atlantic University
  • Florida International University
  • Florida State University
  • Furman University
  • Georgetown
  • Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Georgian College
  • Grinnell College
  • Hamilton College
  • Harding University
  • Harvard
  • Harvey Mudd
  • High Point University
  • Humboldt State University
  • Illinois State University
  • Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne
  • Iowa State University
  • Ithaca College
  • ITT Tech
  • James Madison University
  • Johns Hopkins University
  • Kennesaw State University
  • Kettering University
  • La Sierra University
  • Lake Forest College
  • LaSalle University
  • Louisiana State University
  • Loyola University Chicago
  • Marist College
  • McGill
  • Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Michigan State University
  • Michigan Technological Univeristy
  • Middle Tennessee State University
  • Midlands Technical College
  • Mississippi State University
  • Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
  • NJIT
  • North Carolina State University
  • North Dakota State University
  • Northeastern Illinios University
  • Northern Arizona University
  • Northern Michigan University
  • Northwest Missouri State
  • Northwestern
  • Notheastern University
  • NYU
  • Ohio State University
  • Oklahoma Christian University
  • Oklahoma State University
  • Oregon State University
  • Pace University
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Polytechnic Institute of NYU
  • Portland State University
  • Presbyterian College
  • Princeton
  • Purdue University Calumet
  • Queens
  • Radford University
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Rice
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  • Rowan University
  • Rutgers University
  • San José State University
  • Santa Clara University
  • Santa Monica College
  • Slippery Rock University
  • Southern Connecticut State University
  • Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
  • Southern Methodist University
  • Stanford
  • Stetson
  • Stonybrook University
  • Suffolk University
  • SUNY - Old Westbury
  • SUNY Binghamton
  • Syracuse University
  • Tarleton State University
  • Texas A&M University
  • Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
  • The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina
  • The College of New Jersey
  • The University of Oklahoma
  • Trinity University
  • Tufts
  • University at Buffalo
  • University of Advancing Technology
  • University of Alabama
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • University of Alberta
  • University of Arizona
  • University of Arkansas
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Calgary
  • University of California, Davis
  • University of California, Irvine
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of California, San Diego
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • University of California-Santa Cruz
  • University of Central Florida
  • University of Chicago
  • University Of Cincinnati
  • University of Colorado
  • University of Connecticut
  • University of Dayton
  • University of Delaware
  • University of Florida
  • University of Guelph
  • University of Houston
  • University of Idaho
  • University of Illinois Chicago
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • University of Kentucky
  • University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • University of Maine
  • University of Maryland
  • University of Maryland Baltimore County
  • University of Maryland Eastern Shore
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • University of Massachusetts Boston
  • University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • University of Memphis
  • University of Michigan
  • University of Minnesota
  • University of Missouri
  • University of Nebraska - Lincoln
  • University of Nebraska at Omaha
  • University of New Brunswick
  • University of New Hampshire
  • University of New Mexico
  • University of North Carolina - Wilmington
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • University of North Florida
  • University of North Texas
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • University of Rhode Island
  • University of Southern California
  • University of Texas
  • University of Texas at Arlington
  • University of Texas at Dallas
  • University of Toronto
  • University of Utah
  • University of Virginia's College At Wise
  • University of Washington
  • University of Western Ontario
  • University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire
  • University of Wisconsin - Platteville
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
  • University of Wisconsin-Superior
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Villanova University
  • Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Virginia Tech
  • Washington State University
  • Washington University in St. Louis
  • Waterloo
  • Weber State University
  • Wellesley
  • Western Illinois University
  • Western Michigan University
  • Wichita State University
  • Wilfrid Laurier University
  • Williams College
  • Winona State University
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  • Wright State University
  • Xavier University
  • Yale
  • York University
  • Youngstown State University
  • Zane State

If your school is not on this list, you can ask us to register your school here.

Unfortunately, we are not extending the Open Tournament to all potential participants. Any person currently affiliated with (most likely working for) one of BattleCode's sponsor companies may not compete in either tournament.