Nexon Youth Programming Challenge (NYPC) Announces Final Contest Players
Sep 13, 2025
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Nexon announced the final round of the NYPC 10th Anniversary College Student League 'NYPC Code Battle' and the finalists of the 10th 'Nexon Youth Programming Challenge (NYPC 2025)'.
A total of 4,900 people participated in the college student league 'NYPC Code Battle' during the online round held from August 8 to 18, with about 700 teams competing. Nexon will present a special award to the top 100 teams in the online round, and the top 24 teams will be given the opportunity to advance to the final round, which will be held at the Nexon headquarters in Pangyo on October 25.
'NYPC CodeBattle' ran a university-specific ranking event 'NYPC CodeBattle: Campus League' that allows you to experience contest issues as a mini-game during contest applications and online rounds. The Top 3 universities (Seoul National University, Korea University of Technology and Education, KAIST), which participated in a total of 250 universities, will be provided with 'Pinkbin' IP snack car rewards in September.
The online preliminary round of 'NYPC 2025', which involved a total of 3,000 people, was held twice in August in the first and second rounds. About 1,800 people, or half of the total applicants, passed the first round and advanced to the second round, and 80 of the top scorers (20 in the 12-14 year old category and 60 in the 15-19 year old category) were confirmed as finalists.
In this online preliminary round, a variety of questions were presented, including questions commemorating the 10th anniversary of the NYPC, questions using Nexon game IP such as 'Maple Story', 'Mabinogi Mobile', 'Dave the Diver', and 'Kartrider Rush Plus', and problems adapted through an idea contest of Nexon executives and employees.
Nexon will hold an offline competition at the Nexon headquarters in Pangyo on October 25 for the finalists of 'NYPC 2025'. The top 500 scorers in the second round will be given a special prize to encourage development and growth, he said.
The entire questions asked in the first and second rounds are open to anyone on the free coding learning platform 'BIKO', and participants can check the participation records and changes in grades from 2022 to this year on the NYPC official website 'My Page'.
Meanwhile, Nexon has been operating a goods shop 'NYPC STORE' for a month from the 29th of last month to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the NYPC. The goods shop is designed to shed light on the footsteps of the NYPC competition over the past decade and to support the expansion of the participant experience through the purchase of souvenirs. The proceeds from the sale will be donated in full, and various events will be held, including collecting stories and memories related to NYPC and presenting a full set of goods.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
