The finals of the TopCoder Open championship in Algorithms and Marathon Match ended in Las Vegas.
Algorithms results: 1. crazyb0y - Bin Jin, China 2. UdH-WiNGeR - Vladislav Isenbaev, Russia, SPSU ITMO 3. marek.cygan - Marek Cygan, Poland 4. Petr - Peter Mitrichev, Russia, Moscow State University 5. Im2Good - Rune Fevang, Norway 6. lucasr - Lucas Agustin Rearte, Argentina 6. SnapDragon - Derek Kisman, Canada 6. syg96 - Stepan Gatilov, Russia, NSU
I recall that Vladislav Isenbaev also recently became the champion of ACM ICPC. Task conditions can be read here (registration is required). ')
Marathon Match Results: 1. KOTEHOK - Andrey Lopatin, Russia, SPSU 2. Psyho - Przemyslaw Debiak, Poland 3. nhzp339 - Xiaoshi Lu, China
For the first time the schoolboy won the TCO-2009 Algorithm. Interestingly, he is also the current winner of TopCoder High School. Another interesting fact is that the second and third winners of the TCO-2009 Algorithm became the winners of the ACM ICPC in 2009 and 2007, respectively, and the winner of the TCO-2009 Marathon Match in 2000 and 2001.