TopCoder Open 2009 Summary

    In Las Vegas, the finals of the TopCoder Open championship in the Algorithms and Marathon Match nominations ended.

    Algorithms results:
    1. crazyb0y - Bin Jin, China
    2. UdH-WiNGeR - Vladislav Isenbaev, Russia, St. Petersburg State University ITMO
    3. marek.cygan - Marek Cygan, Poland
    4. Petr - Peter Mitrichev, Russia, Moscow State University
    5. Im2Good - Rune Fevang , Norway
    6. lucasr - Lucas Agustin Rearte, Argentina
    6. SnapDragon - Derek Kisman, Canada
    6. syg96 - Stepan Gatilov, Russia, NSU

    Let me remind you that Vladislav Isenbaev also recently became the champion of ACM ICPC.
    Task conditions can be read here (registration is required).

    Marathon Match results:
    1. KOTEHOK - Andrey Lopatin, Russia, St. Petersburg State University
    2. Psyho - Przemyslaw Debiak, Poland
    3. nhzp339 - Xiaoshi Lu, China

    For the first time, the student became the winner of the TCO-2009 Algorithm. Interestingly, he is also the current winner of TopCoder High School. Another interesting fact - the second and third winners of the TCO-2009 Algorithm became the winners of ACM ICPC in 2009 and 2007, respectively, and the winner of the TCO-2009 Marathon Match - in 2000 and 2001.

    References:
    Official Championship Website
    TCO 2009 SnarkNews Page

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