The winner of TopCoder Open Algorithm for the third time was tomek (Tomasz Czajka, Poland). Petr is in second place (Petr Mitrichev, Russia, Moscow State University), and Eryx (Eryk Kopczynski, Poland) is in third place. Burunduk1 (Sergey Kopeliovich, Russia, St. Petersburg State University) took the 5th place, andrewzta (Andrey Stankevich, Russia, St. Petersburg State University ITMO) and vlad89 among those who divided 6-9 places.
Three Russian participants, two Polish, and one participant from Ukraine, China, Australia, Indonesia and Sweden entered the final of the TopCoder Open 2008 Algorithm.
Unfortunately, Mitrichev did not win (. In 2006, he won.
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The final results.Interesting facts about
TopCoder OpenIn general, the final was very tense.
For example - With 20s left, Petr gets a third challenge to take the lead.
But 5s later moving back into the lead! Real crowd
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In general, it was cool.