Departmental Programming Team takes Bronze Medal in ICPC World Finals

On November 10, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, a team comprising: Stefan Constantin-Buliga, Lukas Michel and  Costin-Andrei Oncescu, represented the University of Oxford in the 45th World Finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). These were the delayed finals of the 2020/21 season. Because of this delay all our team members have already graduated, and we are very happy that they agreed to practice hard and represent Oxford one last time.

The team performed very well. Solving 8 out of 12 problems got them 11th place (out of 132 teams from all around the world, selected in the 2020/21 season of regional contests), and a bronze medal. They were very close to solving a ninth problem (which would have given them 6th place and a silver medal).

The finals were won by a very strong team from MIT, the only team to solve 11 problems. The final scoreboard is available at https://image.icpc.global/wfscoreboard/index.html

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The team is pictured below, from the left: Lukas, Costin and Stefan.