University of Wisconsin–Madison

UW-Madison team does it again, placing first at regional ICPC

Gryffindor, the winning team: Tuan Tai Nguyen, Harry Huang, and Anton Cheng (left to right)

For the sixth year in a row, UW-Madison has placed first at the regional round of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). Not only that: five of the six UW-Madison teams placed in the top 10 out of 96 teams competing. And the number one team was the only one in the competition to solve all nine problems. See the scoreboard for details.  The top team now advances to the North America Championship, where 15 teams will qualify for the world finals. Last year UW-Madison won a silver medal, and the team is aiming to meet or surpass their achievement next year. The six UW-Madison team results are as follows:
  • Gryffindor (1st place): Anton Cheng, Harry Huang, Tuan Tai Nguyen
  • .sort()[-1] (4th place): Tan Bui, HuaiYuan Jing, Merlin Morton
  • Mini Soda (7th place): Guanlin Chen, Xinchen Shen, Enze Zhang
  • Apples are great (8th place): Brandon Han, Ishan Joshi, Xuan Nghia Nguyen
  • JQKA (10th place): Anda He, Kalyan Sriram, Jierui Xu
  • chr(sum(range(ord(min(str(not())))))) (20th place): Ansh Aggarwal, Anna Sun, Austin Tsai
Congratulations to all the teams – and to coach and Computer Sciences professor Dieter van Melkebeek!