It looks like this year in sports programming for Russia is the year of the St. Petersburg school. In February, Misha Dvorkin wins
the TTB Winter Cup . In March, the St. Petersburg ITMO team (which includes the same Misha Dworkin) shows the best Russian result - gold and 3rd place - at
the ACM ICPC finals in Tokyo. The next major international competition in sports programming -
TopCoder High School among high school students - is again won by a St. Petersburg citizen. This is a student of Physics and Mathematics Lyceum number 30 Yuri Petrov aka
Burunduk2 .
About a year ago, a “Chipmunk invasion” took place on the vehicle. Petrov associates (
Burunduk1 ,
Burunduk2 and
Burunduk3 ) began to tear everyone together at school SRMs under almost identical nicknames. This was beautiful. The victory of one of them in this year's TCHS was a logical continuation of the story. Note that the “yellow” chipmunk won, not the “red” *, but this is sport. There is always a place of surprise.
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The closest major event in the joint venture is the
TopCoder Open final in Las Vegas at the end of June, in fact the unofficial world championship in the individual competition. And here, too, the St. Petersburg joint venture school in the person of playing coach Andrei Stankevich aka
andrewzta promises the most . Stankevich is currently the fourth in the ranking of the vehicle and, along with Peter, one of the two Russians "with an eye" **.
And what about Peter Mitrichev aka
Petr from Moscow State University, you ask, player number 1 in the CU rating, the winner of the three largest TC-contests last year? The absence of Mitrichev in the final was a major shock for the local JV community this year. Petya flew out on one of the qualifying rounds along with other prominent representatives of the Moscow School of JV. But! Petya won a blogger competition on the CU and went to Las Vegas to cover the final. For fans of Mitrichev in this capacity at the moment, perhaps even more interesting. After all, this is an exceptional opportunity - to observe the course of the finals through the eyes of the player behind number 1 in the world.
Closer to the final of the TSO, I will try to find a moment to describe the pre-final game situation in more detail. I hope it will be interesting for you :)
* ("Red" topcoders have a higher rating than "bad")
** Also “Target”, a player of the vehicle, whose rating is above 3000 points. In total, at the moment, out of more than 5,000 active players in the vehicle, only 7 are owners of the “eye”. The “eye” is a special badge that marks the nicknames of the target on the arena of the CU, the name received, as you can understand, because of the external similarity with this organ of vision.