December 6 to 7, St. Petersburg hosted the finals for the team programming competition for students in the ICPC World Programming Championship Northern Eurasian Region Competition. More than 280 teams from Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and other countries participated. Novosibirsk State University was represented by five teams.
Matvey Goncharov, Denis Malinovsky, and Roman Fesenko, a team of first-year students at NSU’s Department of Information Technologies (ITD), made up the MathWay team that took 29th place in the overall standings, the best in Siberia. The students were awarded a II Degree diploma.
Four more NSU teams received III Degree diplomas: Gena the Crocodile (ITD students Anton Mokrousov, Artem Plyusnin, and Sofya Lylova), la-la (ITD students Semyon Vlasov, Nikita Maksakovskiy, and Viktor Lozhnikov), The Colleagues (ITD students Semyon Morozov, Artysh Kyrgys, and Timofei Khrapovitsky), and Successful Payment (ITD students Sergey Vladimirov, Mark Bukhner, and Stepan Kulakov from the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics).
Vladimir Isachenko, team coach and Assistant at ITD discussed the results,
The results of the teams are encouraging, everyone earned diplomas and placed reasonably well in the overall ranking. Two teams had a good chance of reaching the final. At one point in the competition the first team had a very high position and were literally one step away from the ICPC finals with only one problem left to solve. Unfortunately, their luck ran out. The students enjoyed their time in St. Petersburg. The atmosphere was different than at the Barnaul site. In St. Petersburg, the students met face to face with the strongest teams in the region. This added a lot of pressure as well as a lot of motivation to show what you are capable of.
