New York, Moscow and Zhejiang University Students Are TopCoder’s World
Champion Programmers
GLASTONBURY, Conn., Nov. 22 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder, Inc., the
leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive
software development today announced Nikolay Archak of New York University,
Petr Mitrichev of Moscow State University and Huang Ninghai of ZheJiang
University as champions in their respective tournaments for design,
algorithms and development at the 2006 TopCoder(R) Collegiate Challenge in
San Diego Friday night. Archak, known by his TopCoder handle "nicka81" took
$25,000 in prize money for his victory with Mitrichev (aka "Petr") and
Ninghai ("PE") earning $25,000 and $15,000 for their first place finishes.
(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20061121/NYTU095 )
An onsite finalist in both the algorithm and component tracks, nicka81
produced first place submissions for each of three design components from a
field of seven designers who competed over the course of three days. Petr is
a back-to-back algorithm champion having won the 2006 TopCoder Open first
prize in that category. This was the first onsite appearance for PE who
submitted two out of three winning development challenges.
In an interesting side note, programmers from China -- "maone" (Mao
Yiqiang), "ACRush" (TianCheng Lou) and "magicpig" (Ronghui Zhu), took second
place in each of the three competition tracks. Third places went to sql_lall
(Patrick Coleman of Australia), mathijs (Mathijs Vogelzang of the
Netherlands) and kiveol (Nathan Kuchta of the U.S.).
"We congratulate all our onsite finalists and hope they had a great time
here in San Diego," said Rob Hughes, President and COO of TopCoder, Inc. "The
growth of our community this year has been truly amazing and we will continue
to look for better ways to challenge and empower programmers around the
world."
This year marked the first time a TopCoder global event was presented on
the internet, Webcast live via AOL’s http://dev.aol.com site, bringing the
excitement and drama of competitive coding at the highest level to a global
audience. Thousands of the brightest students from computer science,
mathematics, physics and other fields representing 92 countries from around
the world spent months locked in qualifying heats. The final 63 were flown in
all expenses paid to San Diego to compete for a share of the $200,000 prize
purse.
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