INRTU Teams Dai Manki and Cythonist Reached the ICPC World Programming Championship Semifinals

INRTU Dai Manki team has entered the top three leaders of the ICPC World Programming Championship quarter finals. Together with the INRTU team Cythonist, it is scheduled to compete in the semifinals in St. Petersburg on December 11-13.

The Irkutsk State University-hosted quarter finals took place on November 19. About 40 teams from Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita and Norilsk represented East Siberia. The participants had to solve 10 complex tasks in algorithmic programming in five hours.

The victory at this stage was awarded to the Irkutsk State University "322" team. Other Irkutsk State University team - ICPC means Irkutsk comPEPEtive - rated the second. Viktor Filatov, Andrey Shamrin and Timur Ergeshov rounded off the top three winners.

INRTU students are guided on sports programming by the Baikal Center of Technological Competencies (BCTC). The studies take place under the additional education program by the School of Information Technologies and Data Science.

According to Roman Ishchenko, Chairman of the BCTC Council, a total of three teams competed on behalf of INRTU:

"Anton Levin, Dmitry Azizov and Sergey Alkhimov from Cythonist++ managed to successfully cope with the tasks. These students are really active on the sports programmers' university movement.

The newcomers Nikita Dopiro, Nikolay Bairbiliktuyev and Vadim Samoilenko also showed good results. The students didn't receive enough points to reach the semifinals, but they still have a way to go.”

Photo by Roman Ishchenko