The competition consists of two stages: the regional preliminaries on all continents and the global finals. The finals are arranged in March-May every year, while the regional preliminaries are generally arranged in February of the year before September-65438. In principle, a university can have up to three teams in a regional preliminaries, but only one team can participate in the global finals.

WF slot machines are divided into three categories: participating slot machines, medal slot machines and other reward slot machines. Among them, the number of participants is allocated from the headquarters of ICPC to the ParticipationSlots of all continents, determined by the chairmen of all continents, and allocated to the sub-regions of all continents. The first place in each preliminary division automatically obtains the qualification to participate in the global finals; The number of medals is the number of places directly allocated by ICPC headquarters to specific schools that won medals according to the results of last year's finals; Other award places are the additional award places obtained by the presidents of all continents from the headquarters of ICPC.

The first place in the global finals will get a trophy. In addition, the top teams will also win gold, silver and bronze medals. Teams with fewer questions than the average will be confirmed, but will not be ranked.