Tomorrow at 5 am Moscow time in the city of Harbin, China, the final of the ACM ICPC'2010 World Championship on Sports Programming will be held.
This year, Russia is represented by teams of 11 universities:
- Petrozavodsk State University
- Moscow State University
- St. Petersburg State University of IT, Mechanics and Optics
- Saratov State University
- St. Petersburg State University
- Samara State Aerospace University
- Ural State University
- Ufa State Technical University of Aviation
- Izhevsk State Technical University
- State University - Higher School of Economics
- Novosibirsk State University
Also participating are 2 Ukrainian teams:
National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" and
Taras Shevchenko Kiev National University , as well as a team of
Belarusian State University from Belarus.
What is ACM ICPC?
ACM ICPC is an annual international student competition organized by the ACM Association. The competitions are held in three stages, and according to the results of the semifinal competitions this year more than 100 teams from all over the world passed to the final.
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rules
The competition involves teams of three people, the team is given 1 computer. The duration of the tour is 5 hours, and during this time each team should solve the tasks proposed by the jury as quickly and accurately as possible.
Each task requires writing a program that, after being sent to the jury, is checked on a fixed set of tests. The solution is considered correct only if it gives the correct answers on all tests, and also does not exceed the limits on execution time and memory.
The winner is the team that correctly solved the largest number of tasks. If several teams solve the same number of tasks, then their position in the ranking is determined by the penalty time. Initially, the penalty time of each team is zero. For each correctly handed over task, the time elapsed from the beginning of the competition to the time of the task is added to the team’s penalty time. In addition, if the read attempt was preceded by several unsuccessful attempts to surrender the same task, then for each of them twenty minutes are added to the penalty time. For unsuccessful attempts to pass the task, which the team eventually failed to solve, the penalty time is not charged.
Past successes
Russia has traditionally been very successful in these competitions since they received international status (until 1990, mainly teams from the USA and Canada participated in the competitions).
Over the past 10 years, teams from Russia have won 6 times, and also earned 40 medals (19 gold, 9 silver and 12 bronze) for all time. We wish good luck to the guys that this year the results were even more impressive than before!
Anyone can cheer for ours, the current results will be shown in real time (an hour before the end, the results will “freeze” to preserve intrigue)
Links
official video broadcastofficial monitor (now there are test tour results)
unofficial monitorblog of Mikhail Mirzayanov , coach of the Saratov State University team
text translation from Oleg KhristenkoUPD: broadcast from Petr Mitrichev from the scene