Already today - July 3 - the final of
ACM ICPC 2013 will take place. This year it is held for the first time in Russia, - it is accepted by
SPb ITU ITMO , whose team
has become the champion
four times. Yandex helps to conduct the Championship and organizes a live broadcast from St. Petersburg, which will begin at 9:15 Moscow time.
You can watch it here -
icpclive.com .
UPD: Begin.
UPD2: The ITMO St. Petersburg University team became the winner of the ACM ICPC2013 World Programming Championship. Congratulations!
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The main presenter and commentator will be
Fredrik Niemelä , well known to those who have watched the contest live for the past few years. I will be assisted by Frederic and
Charles McKathieNevil - Yandex representative at the W3C.
During the broadcast, we will interview the guests of the championship, among which, for example, the creator of C ++
Bjarne Stroustrup .
For the first time in the history of the student team world championship, anyone can solve the same tasks as the participants and send them through the Kattis judicial system -
icpc.kattis.com . The finalists of the ICPC are very similar.
This year, 2322 universities participated in the qualifying rounds of the ACM ICPC. A total of 120 teams reached the final.
And among them 15 - from Russia:
- Altai State Technical University
- Izhevsk State Technical University
- Moscow Aviation Institute
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. PhysTech
- Moscow State Institute of Steel and Alloys
- Moscow State University Mv Lomonosov
- Novosibirsk State University
- Perm State National Research University
- St. Petersburg Academic University - Nanotechnology Research and Education Center, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Samara State Aerospace University
- Saratov State University
- St. Petersburg State University
- St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
- Ufa State Aviation Technical University
- Ural Federal University.
Two - from Ukraine:
- KNU named after Taras Shevchenko
- Kharkiv National University named after V.N. Karazin.
Two - from Kazakhstan:
- Kazakh-British Technical University
- International IT University.
And one - from Belarus:
- Belarusian State University.
The official ICPC blogger 2013 on
Codeforces is a two-time world champion and our colleague Egor
EgorK Kulikov. He became the
second Russian (after Peter Mitrichev), who won both the TopCoder Open and Google Code Jam. In addition to the video broadcast on
icpc2013.ru, you can follow the text,
which will lead Egor .
In his opinion, the favorites of the championship are six teams.
Moscow State University Mv Lomonosov . In the current roster, the team participates in the ICPC finals for the second time. Last year, the guys took 10th place and won bronze medals.
Shanghai Transport (Jiaotong) University . Three-time world champions. They showed the best result among the Chinese teams in the Battle of the Giants.
SPSU . At the Ukrainian Open Cup stage, the guys were able to get ahead of the ITMO team.
University of Tokyo . The participants of the Japanese team are behind the finals of TopCoder Open, Google Code Jam, Facebook Hacker Cup, VK Cup and the medals of the International Mathematics Olympiad.
National Taiwan University . The team of the university showed impressive results in regional competitions, taking prizes. In Jakarta, they walked around the University of Tokyo.
SPb NRU ITMO . Four winners of ACM ICPC. The ITMO team won the World Cup gold medals nine times, which is the highest achievement in history.

Egor Kulikov, along with nine of our colleagues, was among the championship analysts who will analyze the tasks during the broadcast. Yandex has been winning by ACM ICPC for many years. For example, two members of the Belarusian team are working in our Minsk office of development, and one of the members of the St. Petersburg State University team is working on a project in the St. Petersburg
Robotter . Last year, the whole team of the Physics and Technology Institute consisted of our colleagues, who also studied at the School of Data Analysis. We do not just watch the competitions, but also
ourselves participate in their conduct and support individual teams .