Petersburg students - champions of Russia in programming in 2012

Congratulations to the students of the St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics with a brilliant victory in the semifinals of the 37 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM ICPC) student team programming championship!




Last Sunday, they overtook more than 850 teams from 260 leading universities in Russia and 10 neighboring countries and won the title of champions of Russia in 2012, solving 11 of the 12 proposed problems.
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The remaining places were as follows:
II place - First team of Moscow State University, 10 solved problems, 1341 penalty minutes
III place - First national team of the Belarusian State University, 10 solved problems, 1491 penalty minutes
IV place - the Fourth team of St. Petersburg State University, 10 solved problems, 1583 penalty minutes
V place - the Fourth National Team of St. Petersburg NRU ITMO, 9 solved problems, 1257 penalty minutes

The final of the 2013 ASM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Championship, which will be attended by over 100 teams from leading universities in the world, will be held from June 30 to July 3, 2013 in St. Petersburg. Together with the teams of SPbNUU ITMO, Moscow State University, BSU, St. Petersburg State University, teams of Ural Federal University, International University of Information Technologies from Almaty, Kazakh-British University, MIPT, Izhevsk State Technical University, St. Petersburg Academic University, Samara Aerospace University, Ufa GATU, Altai State Technical University, Technical University of Kaunas, MAI, Saratov State University, MISIS, Perm State University and Novosibirsk State University.
We wish the teams incredible success in the upcoming competitions!

The general sponsor of the championship since 1998 is IBM.