MIT's Premier Programming Competition

Battlecode 2025 ends on February 1st, 2025!

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What is Battlecode?

In Battlecode, two teams of virtual robots roam the screen, managing resources and executing different offensive strategies against each other. Plan, code, and compete throughout the month of January for a chance at more than $20,000 in prizes!

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Who can participate?

Anyone is welcome to participate in Battlecode! Any team is eligible to participate in the Sprint Tournaments for prize money. However, only student teams (including non-MIT student teams) are eligible for the remaining tournaments and prize money.

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Want to sponsor Battlecode 2025?

Contact us at battlecode-sponsorship@mit.edu for more information! We offer multiple sponsorship tiers which can include tech talks, final tournament booths, and more.

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Platinum Sponsor

Adobe

Adobe’s mission to change the world through personalized digital experiences is more critical than ever as digital continues to rapidly transform work, life, and play. Adobe Creative Cloud, Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud are vital to the success of creators, communicators, students and entrepreneurs and mission-critical to businesses of all sizes. We take pride in the tremendous impact we are driving across creativity, productivity and digital experiences while being one of the most inventive, diversified, and profitable technology companies in the world.


Gold Sponsors

Amplitude

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 3,500 customers, including Atlassian, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Shopify, and Jersey Mike’s, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive growth. Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2024 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business at amplitude.com.


Silver Sponsors

Hudson River Trading

Hudson River Trading (HRT) brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. We have built one of the world’s most sophisticated computing environments for research and development. Our researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading. At HRT we welcome a variety of expertise: mathematics and computer science, physics and engineering, media and tech. We value openness and transparency, and celebrate great ideas from HRT veterans and new hires alike. At HRT we’re friends and colleagues – whether we are sharing a meal, playing the latest board game, or writing elegant code.

Jane Street

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices worldwide. We hire smart, humble people who love to solve problems, build systems, and test theories. You’ll learn something new every day in our office—whether it’s connecting with a colleague to share perspectives, or participating in a talk, class, or game night. Our success is driven by our people and we never stop improving.

Codeium

Codeium (Series C, $1.25B) is a leader in the AI coding space, giving hundreds of thousands of developers autocomplete, in-IDE chat, and Windsurf, the best AI-native editor on the market. Founded by MIT alums and located in Mountain View, we’re hiring for positions across the board!


Bronze Sponsors

The D. E. Shaw Group

 

Citadel

 

Other Sponsors

Wilkens Family

 

The COOP

 

Basalt