Sportscasting Celebrity Jeremy Schaap Hosts Coverage of TopCoder Collegiate Challenge Airing November 17th on dev.aol.com

TopCoder Members John Dethridge and Ken Vogel Join ESPN's Schaap For Webcast of Live Action Programming Tournament

Glastonbury, Conn., November 13, 2006 - TopCoder, Inc., the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development today announced that the 2006 TopCoder® Collegiate Challenge will be webcast live on November 17th and will be hosted by a high caliber panel of coding commentary anchored by sportscasting celebrity Jeremy Schaap. On Friday, November 17, viewers will be able to visit AOL's developer Web site at http://dev.aol.com/ to watch the competition unfold live starting at 1:30 p.m. PST (21:30 GMT). Over the course of the four hour webcast, viewers will be able to watch the high stakes software competition through live views of the arena, entertaining profiles and interviews with contestants - and in-depth coverage of the final results - in real time.

Jeremy Schaap is the author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Man. An ESPN anchor and national correspondent, his work has been published in Sports Illustrated, ESPN the Magazine, Time, Parade and the New York Times. He has also been a regular contributor to ABC's World News Tonight and Nightline. John Dethridge is a former TopCoder champion having won the 2002 TopCoder Invitational. He is a five time onsite finalist and holds a TopCoder rating of 3011. Ken Vogel is a 2002 quarter finalist and currently a director in equities IT with UBS.

For the first time a TopCoder global event will be presented on the internet, bringing the excitement and drama of competitive coding at the highest level. Thousands of the brightest students from computer science, mathematics, physics and other fields representing 92 countries from around the world have spent months locked in qualifying heats. Now they will be flown in all expenses paid as one of 63 of the world's best collegiate programmers competing against the clock and each other for a share of $200,000 in prizes.

"We're very excited about bringing the tournament to viewers around the world via the AOL," said Rob Hughes, President and COO of TopCoder, Inc. "Between the fantastic group of competitors, the anchor desk with Jeremy, Ken and John, roving cameras, audience viewing stations and leader boards, this promises to be the most entertaining TopCoder event yet."

About TopCoder, Inc.

TopCoder is the recognized leader in identifying, evaluating and mobilizing effective software development resources. Through its proprietary programming competitions and rating system, TopCoder recognizes and promotes the abilities of the best programmers around the world. TopCoder Software harnesses the talent of these developers to design, develop and deploy software through its revolutionary competitive development methodology. TopCoder's methodology emphasizes thorough specification and design, distributed development using reusable components, and a rigorous quality assurance review process and results in higher quality, lower cost software solutions than traditional software development methodologies. For more information about sponsoring TopCoder Events, recruiting TopCoder members and utilizing TopCoder Software, visit http://www.topcoder.com/.

TopCoder is a registered trademark of TopCoder, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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