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The International Obfuscated C Code Contest

Current status of the IOCCC

The IOCCC is closed

The IOCCC is NOT accepting new submissions at this time. See the IOCCC winning entries page for the entries that have won the IOCCC.

Watch both this IOCCC status page and the @IOCCC mastodon feed for information about future IOCCC openings.

status.json

    {
        "no_comment" : "mandatory comment: because comments were removed from the original JSON spec",
        "IOCCC_status_version" : "1.0 2024-03-09",
        "contest_status" : "closed",
        "news_update" : "2025-08-07T03:07:11+00:00",
        "status_update" : "2025-08-01T19:38:14+00:00"
    }

Please see the FAQ on “status.json fields” for more information the above JSON fields.

See also the important disclaimers about contest status.


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