The race is a men's competition consisting of six stages.

Men's competitions consist of five such series, while women's have three.

In 1992 the competition consisted of five metropolitan teams and one country team.

It began early in 2003 as a small competition consisting of several drifting teams from all over the country.

The competition consists of 3 individual rounds and a team round that was added in 2008.

Competition consisted of a final round with all 17 contestants.

The competition will consist of programming solutions to five problems.

The competition has consisted of a single event, men's team; women have never competed.

Each day's competition consists of three problems and contestants have five hours to try to solve them.

The competition consists of seven multiple choice tests, two performance events, and an essay.