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Thanks to the outstanding results shown last year, as many as six UL teams were able to participate in the contest and the top two have qualified for the ACM-ICPC’s regional contest. The teams Unusual (Krisjanis Prusis, Jevgenijs Vihrovs, Normunds Vilcins) and Lucent (Eriks Gopaks, Karlis Senko, Andrejs Vihrovs) will continue the competition in St.Peterburg, on December 2.
The Latvian teams have demonstrated best results among the Baltic States. The most successful among the other Baltics was the team from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) ranking 10th place.
„At the Quarter-finals, teams were offered 11 competition problems to be solved within five hours. The Belarusian State University and the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, winning gold and bronze medals at the ACM-ICPC’s finals in 2012, were considered as main competitors. Unfortunately, our best team failed to beat the well-known rivals this year, too. Our team lost much time searching for actually non- existing programme error. The organizers later admitted the gaps in problem testing,”said Guntis Arnicans, team’s coach and Professor of the UL, FC.
Jevgenijs Vihrovs and Normunds Vilcins, who shared 18th place at the 2012 ACM- ICPC World Finals in Warsaw (8000 students from 2219 Universities and 85 countries), represented Unusual this year in Minsk and ranked 4th place.
Guntis Arnicans, Associate Professor of the UL, FC, and Rihards Opmanis, PhD student, prepared the UL teams for the contest.
„Exigen Services Latvia” JSC, „Datakom” Ltd. and Roberts Blumbergs, Honorary Consul of Latvia in the State of Illinois supported the UL teams at the ACM-ICPC’s contest.
Translated by students of the professional study programme Translator of the University of Latvia.