The NSUtella team ranked in the top 10 at sports programming championships in Minsk and Moscow

The NSUtella team consists of studentsFaculty of Information Technologies (FIT) NSU Matvey Goncharov,Sofya LylovaиRoman BolucParticipated in the final of the Championship of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (BSUIR) in Minsk on April 24. The team took 10th place out of 29 teams and received third-degree diplomas.

On April 26 in Moscow, the team participated in the final of the championship of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in sports programming. As a result of the competition, the students of NGU also took 10th place and received bronze medals.

Competitions were held in a format close to an international programming tournament:

• 5 hours to solve algorithmic problems;
• teams of three people, training in one educational institution;
• All participants in the future must have the opportunity to participate in ICPC (the world’s largest student team programming olympiad);
• Programming languages: C++, Python, Java;
• Automatic solution verification in real time.

—The time for these two competitions has been specially selected so that the same teams can participate in both competitions., — explainsRoman Boluts.

The competition format is very simple: approximately 30 teams, ICPC format, 5 hours, conditions — only in English.

—The brightest moment that I remember is when we became BGUIR prize-winners by solving the last task 7 seconds before the end; this was our fifth attempt at this task. It was the first time for me that a task was solved literally in the last seconds. As for the MFTI competition, it is a bit disappointing that we solved as many tasks as the gold medalists but lost according to additional criteria., — Roman shares.

Participants note that there was a very high average team level.

—Even fairly complex tasks were solved by the majority of teams. And this applies to both championships. This is not surprising, given that from the initial large number of teams, only about 30 teams were allowed to the finals., — concludes Roman.