When you register for the Brasileirao de Programacao:

• All users from the same institution will participate as a single team
• You can register as one of three roles:
• Coach: Experienced mentor or instructor
• Bixo: Beginner with up to 1 year of programming experience
• Veteran: Experienced programmer with more than 1 year of programming experience

Scoring and Ranking:

Institutions earn points through two sources: Weekly Challenges and Contests.

Weekly Challenges:

• +1 point if at least one member of the institution solved the challenge
• +1 bonus point if the 1st place in the challenge leaderboard belongs to the institution. If multiple institutions are within 5% of the 1st place metric, all of them are considered a technical tie and all receive the bonus point
• Solutions: the number of unique members who submitted an accepted solution is added to the institution's solution count

Contests:

• +1 point for each unique problem solved by at least one member of the institution
• +1 bonus point for institutions finishing in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in the contest ranking

Challenge Ranking Categories:

• Submission Time: the earliest accepted submission wins (lower elapsed time from challenge start is better)
• CPU Time: the submission with the lowest execution time wins
• Memory Peak: the submission with the lowest memory usage wins
• Code Lines: the submission with the fewest lines of code wins. The following are not counted: empty lines, lines containing only { or }, and preprocessor directives (#include, #define, etc.). In C++ and C, the code is first preprocessed to expand macros (so code hidden behind #define aliases is properly counted). In C++, Java, and C, each ; counts as a separate statement — e.g. two statements on one line count as two lines. Semicolons inside for(...) loop headers are not counted (e.g. for(int i=0; i<n; i++) counts as one line, not three).
• Test Cases Passed: the submission that passes the most test cases wins — the submission does not need to be fully correct. Only submissions that pass at least 5 test cases are considered valid and appear on the leaderboard. For institution scoring, all unique members with at least 5 test cases passed count toward the institution's solutions total

Fair Play Rules:

• Only the best submission per user is considered in each challenge leaderboard
• Institutions are encouraged to share knowledge and tips about problems, as long as each solution was genuinely coded by its author
• Use of bots or fake accounts to inflate submission counts may result in account bans and deduction of points from the institution