TCCC 2006 onsite rounds will begin in San Diego on November 15

On November 15, the last, in-person stage of the TopCoder Collegiate Challenge 2006 will begin, which is actually the student world championship in sports programming in the individual competition. Unlike other major competitions held in the individual competition ( Google Code Jam and TopCoder Open ), only students and graduate students of higher educational institutions are allowed to participate in this competition. This time 3088 players from all over the world took part in the selection.


From November 15 to November 18, 48 programmers will meet in the semi-finals and final of TCCC 2006 in San Diego, USA. The competition schedule is as follows:

November 15 - semi-final 1
November 16 - semi-final 2 and semi-final 3
November 17 - wildcard round
November 18 - the final
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It is pleasant to note that this time the delegation from Russia takes the first place in number - 16 people. The next most representative delegation is China (6 participants). The onsite rounds of TCCC 2006 included the winner of this year’s GCJ Peter Mitrichev, as well as Andrei Stankevich, who took third place there, and Andrei Khalyavin, who managed to win 4th place.

At universities, the Russian participants are distributed as follows:

Moscow State University
Peter Mitrichev
Egor Kulikov
Andrey Khalyavin

Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (State University)
Konstantin Azarov

St. Petersburg State University
Vitaly Valtman
Andrey Lopatin
Sergey Branevich

St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
Andrey Stankevich
Mikhail Dvorkin
Roman Satyukov

Stavropol State University
Ivan Krasilnikov

Ufa State Aviation Technical University
Alexey Zhevak
Denis Nazarov

Altai State Technical University
Dmitry Gozman

Saratov State University
Mikhail Mirzayanov

Separately worth Nikolai Archak, who registered as a Russian participant, but studies at the University of New York.

Also sent to San Diego:

National Technical University of Ukraine "KPI"
Kirill Vedensky
Vladimir Kachurovsky

Unfortunately, Nika Dzhimsheleishvili from Tbilisi State University and Ivan Metelsky from Belarusian State University, who were originally supposed to take part in the on-site TSSS 2006, will not go to San Diego, as they did not get a visa to travel to the USA. They have been replaced by other players.

Participants will receive the following prizes:

1st place - USD 25,000
2nd place - USD 10,000
3rd place - USD 5 000
4th place - USD 2,500
From 5th to 8th place - USD 1 000
From 9th to 48th place - USD 400