(pictured left to right, Eric Woods, IBM Representative (and VT grad); Miraziz Yusupov, Nick Sharp, Scott Pruett and Coach Dr. Godmar Back)
December 2, 2014 — The VT team has advanced to the 2015 ACM-ICPC World Finals to be held May 16 – May 21 in Marrakech, Morocco.
On Nov 1st, the Virginia Tech ACM Programming Team competed in the 2014 Regional ACM International Collegiate Programming Competition (ICPC). Virginia Tech fielded eight teams of three students each, who competed among 188 teams from universities and colleges across the Mid-Atlantic region for a coveted spot at the ACM ICPC World Finals, which will be held in Marrakech, Morocco in May 2015. The Mid-Atlantic region comprises universities and colleges in the states of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, D.C., East Pennsylvania and South New Jersey.
The ACM ICPC contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure. It is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious programming contest in the world.
All participating students were CS majors, ranging from sophomores who competed for the first time to seniors who participated for the 2nd or 3rd year. Virginia Tech's top-scoring team, which consisted of CS students Nicholas Sharp, Scott Pruett, and Miraziz Yusupov, finished first at the Radford University site, and placed overall 3rd place. With this result, it is one of only 22 teams from North America to qualify for a spot at the World Finals.
Overall, our teams placed as follows:
#3 The Traveling Salesmen:
Scott Pruett, Nick Sharp, Miraziz Yusupov
#11 Trie Hards:
Brendan Avent, Tucker Noia, Saurav Sharma
#15 The Canonical Backtrackers:
Hassan Almas, Andriy Katkov, Nathaniel Lahn
#16 The Breadth-First Searchers:
Harrison Fang, Daniel Gil, Luke Wolff
#48 Ternary Search Party:
Nate Craun, Michael Zamani, Loran Steinberger
Honorable mention:
The Multinomials:
Larissa Perara, Aarathi Raghuraman, Monica Wei
Recursive Descendants:
Carlos Folgar, Brannon Mason, Elliace Zargarpur
The Naive Backtrackers:
Patrick Easter, Edward McEnrue, Reid Thomas
Our teams prepared in weekly practices and multiple 5-hour mock contests held on the weekends leading up to the regional contest.
The ACM Programming Team is open to all undergraduate students and to graduate students who have not completed more than 5 years of post-K12 education. See here for complete eligibility requirements.
Students interested in participating in the team should contact Team Coach Dr. Godmar Back (gback@vt.edu), or visit the team web page at https://icpc.cs.vt.edu/
All CS@VT teams pictured below:
