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YUTC 2026

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Venue
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, New Haven, CT

YUTC 2026 brought 203 undergraduates from 43 universities to New Haven for a two-day trading competition with a prize pool of more than $20,000. The event was run by Yale undergraduates and supported by sponsors from across the trading industry. Thank you to all participants, sponsors, and organizers who made YUTC 2026 a tremendous success!

  • 203

    Participants

  • 43

    Universities

  • $20,000+

    Prize Pool

Games

Auction Poker

Players bid for piles of cards from a short deck in sealed-bid, second-price auctions, then compete on the best five-card poker hand they can build from everything they won. Only some cards in each pile are face-up.

Odd Odds

Each round sets up a random event, such as a coin flip, dice roll, or random card, and offers bets with unusual payout functions. Players split their chips to maximise their worst-case payoff, with speed bonuses for the fastest submissions. A bonus snake game to play between rounds!

Halovia

A strategy game based on resource collecting and trading. Teams claim hex sectors, build extractors, factories and armories, trade on a shared market and fight over territory under fog of war.

Gem Grab

A pit-trading game, where each team sends one miner into a shared mine to draw gems. The more gems they tried to mine, the higher the likelihood of drawing bombs that would lose your gems. The rest of the team trades those gems on the trading floor. At close every gem settles at a price depending on how rare the gem was.

YUTC Party

Am exchange game built around a board game. Four computer-controlled characters roll dice around an island board and compete minigames, while teams trade contracts on how each character will place in each minigame and overall.

Side Games

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Sponsors