UrFU Team Takes Bronze in ICPC Finals

15:34, April 20, 2018

The championship finished yesterday in Beijing

The final stage of the event of the year in the field of IT, the most important and prestigious world tournament on programming – ICPC – took place yesterday in Beijing. On the podium are the participating universities of the Project 5-100: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), ITMO University and UrFU.

The main fight between the world's best young programmers ended yesterday, on April 19, in Beijing. For many years in a row, Russian teams have had no equal at the World Championship in sports programming. This year, the Russian were in the favorites again, having the strongest foreign rivals such as Chinese and Korean teams.

140 teams from 51 countries, including 11 Russian teams, participated in the final stage of the largest world championship, 5 of which represented the leading universities of the country, participants of Project 5-100: MIPT, ITMO University (world record-holders in the number of wins), HSE, UrFU and NSU.

Russian participants won the World Cup and 4 medals out of 13 – more than the other participating countries: teams from China and the US received three medals, Japan, Korea and Lithuania got one medal each. The first place and the Cup of Champions was taken by Moscow State University. The “gold” was also given to MIPT, Peking University and the University of Tokyo. The "silver" went to Seoul University, University of South Wales, Xinhua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The "bronze" was won by the ITMO University, University of Central Florida, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vilnius University and UrFU. Since each of 13 teams was working on 7 tasks, this time the judges decided to award 13 medals instead of 12.