The 48th ICPC World Finals was held in Astana from September 15 to 20. 142 teams from more than 111 countries took part in the contest. These participants were selected from 72,000 applicants representing 103 countries and more than 3,000 universities.
The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) is a student programming Olympiad founded in the 1970s in the United States. The first ICPC was held in 1977 at the University of Michigan. Since then, the competition has been held annually in various countries including the United States, Russia, the Netherlands, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, Japan, Sweden, Poland, Thailand, Morocco, Egypt, Bangladesh, and Portugal.
The NSU team included students from the Information Technology Department Sofia Lylova (4th year), Anton Mokrousov (2nd year postgraduate student), Artem Plyusnin (Master's graduate). The team solved six problems landing in the 20-50 place category with such leading universities as ITMO, HSE, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, and others.
In the final results, Peking University took first place and MIPT took second place. MIPT's algorithmic programming team Yolki-Palki became the only one from Russia to reach the ICPC podium. MIPT students overtook their strongest rivals from the University of Massachusetts and Xinhua University.
St. Petersburg University took 22nd place, HSE University — 29th, ITMO University — 36th, MAI — 43rd, NSU — 45th, St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design — 92nd, and Skoltech — 102nd.
Vladimir Isachenko added,
Despite the successful performance of the NSU team, we know that we still have room to grow and develop. Our goal is to prepare better and win medals. According to the rules, Artem and Anton can no longer participate in ICPC competitions so they will join the coaching staff and help prepare the teams. Sofia can still participate, so she will prepare for next year with a different team.
