A balloon for every problem solved. Each problem has its own color. Photo from http://icpc.baylor.edu/
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The ACM-ICPC International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals 2008 passed in Canada (Banff, Alberta) under the aegis of the Association of Computing Machinery. From 6,700 teams representing 1,821 universities in 83 countries one hundred teams advanced to the World Finals. The USA was represented by 20 teams which was the largest number of teams, 15 teams represented China, and 11 teams came from Russia.
Team of St. Petersburg University of IT, Mechanics and Optics became the World and Europe Champion, having solved 8 of 11 problems posed. Gold Medals were also awarded to: the team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology which has won the second place and became the North American Champions, the team of Izhevsk State Technical University which has won the third place and the team of Lviv National University which has won the fourth place.
Silver Medals were awarded to the team of Moscow State University which has won the fifth place, the team of Tsinghua University (China) which has won the sixth place and became the Asian Champions, the team of Stanford University (USA) which has won the seventh place and team of the University of Zagreb (Croatia) which has won the eighth place.
Team of Petrozavodsk State University at the АСМ International Collegiate Programming Contest. Photo from http://icpc.baylor.edu/
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Teams of University of Waterloo (Canada), Petrozavodsk State University, St. Petersburg State University and Belarusian State University having won places from 9 to 12, respectively, were awarded Bronze Medals.
Russian teams as a whole have shown an outstanding result in the World Finals, having won the Champions' title, two Gold, one Silver and two Bronze Medals. Teams of the northeast semifinal zone (which includes all the postSoviet states, except for Ukraine and Moldova) have received exactly one half of all medals awarded (6 of 12), that is a record achievement in itself.
ACM-ICPC World Finals Award Ceremony. Photo from http://icpc.baylor.edu/
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Team of Petrozavodsk State University comprising Vyacheslav Medvedev, Maxim Spirichev and Ivan Arkhipov achieved the best result among the teams that have solved 6 problems, won the 10 place and was honoured with the Bronze Medal. This is the second medal of Petrozavodsk State University: last year the team of PetrSU had won the bronze medal and the 13 place, so it may be considered a small step forward. It is interesting to mention, that the last year's bronze prize-winner, the strongest on results of the season team of Petrozavodsk State University comprising sophomore and junior students desided to skip the World Finals 2008 - and it turnedout that their result was exceled by their senior fellows.
Team of Petrozavodsk State University won Bronze in the International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals. Photo from http://icpc.baylor.edu/
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We should point out the great contribution made by Petrozavodsk State University to training of teams participating in the International Collegiate Programming Contest: for 5 years Petrozavodsk has been hosting the programming training camps for the stongest Russian and now international teams, too. Therefore, in success of all teams participating in training camps there is a great merit of the camp organizers and of the PetrSU team's coach Denis Vlasov. Besides, at Petrozavodsk State University great attention is paid to the teams' training: the PetrSU President Victor Vasiliev is a member of the university delegation.
The result shown by teams from Russia and the CIS in the Finals especially valuable, as the contest's favorites - World and Europe Champions 2007, the team of Warsaw University - have been beaten in the Finals, having won the 14 place and, except for medal-winners, lost to the team of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology that participated in the Finals for the first time and has won the 13 place.
On the information from SnarkNews
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