The 2018 World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) culminated today at Peking University in Beijing, China. Three students from Moscow State University earned the title of 2018 World Champions. Teams from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Peking University and The University of Tokyo placed in second, third and fourth places and were recognized with gold medals in the prestigious competition.
ACM ICPC is the premier global programming competition conducted by and for the world's universities. The global competition is conceived, operated and shepherded by ACM, sponsored by IBM, and headquartered at Baylor University. For more than four decades, the competition has raised the aspirations and performance of generations of the world's problem solvers in computing sciences and engineering.
In the competition, teams of three students tackle eight or more complex, real-world problems. The students are given a problem statement, and must create a solution within a looming five-hour time limit. The team that solves the most problems in the fewest attempts in the least cumulative time is declared the winner. This year's World Finals saw 140 teams competing. Now in its 42nd year, ICPC has gathered more than 320,000 students from around the world to compete since its inception.
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(Score: 1) by sorokin on Saturday April 21 2018, @02:37PM
On this competition teams are ranked in the following way
1. Firstly they are ranked by number of problems solved (more is better)
2. If some teams got the same number of problems solved they are ranked by number of point they got (fewer (sic!) is better )
So team should solve are many problems as they could and get as few points as possible.
Points are calculated in the following way:
1. For each solved problem the team gets one point for each minute elapsed since the beginning of tournament (total time 300 minutes).
2. For each solved problem the team gets 20 points for each previously unsuccessful submission of this problem.
For example if you solved 3 problems, the first on the minute 10, the second on the minute 30, the third on the minute 100 with 2 unsuccessful submissions, then your total score is 10 + 30 + 100 + 40 = 180 points.