{"id":1813,"date":"2016-07-12T14:37:51","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T18:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2016-07-12T14:37:51","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T18:37:51","slug":"icpc-programming-team-competes-at-world-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2016\/07\/12\/icpc-programming-team-competes-at-world-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"ICPC Programming Team Competes at World Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, May found the Virginia Tech ACM ICPC Programming Team traveling across the globe to compete in the ICPC World Finals.\u00a0 This year the competition was held in Phuket, Thailand, and included 128 teams, selected from a record 2,736 participating universities during fall regional contests.\u00a0 The 2016 Virginia Tech team consisted of CS majors Dustin Pho, Peter Steele, and Chris Wu, with Dr. Godmar Back as their coach.<\/p>\n<p>According to Back, \u201cThe competition involved 13 problems, of which the top three teams (St. Petersburg State, Shanghai Jiao Tong, and Harvard) solved 11, 11, and 10, respectively. The Virginia Tech team solved four problems, which ranked it 74<sup>th<\/sup>, an improvement over the last two years where we finished 92<sup>nd<\/sup>. The team is particularly proud of finishing 9<sup>th<\/sup> among the 25 teams from North America, which is our best showing since at least 2005.\u00a0 The only North American teams finishing ahead of VT were Harvard, MIT, Waterloo, UCF, Berkeley, Cornell, Stanford, and Rice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Follow the ICPC Programming Team on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VTProgTeam\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1814 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/07\/ICPC-pic-2016.jpg\" alt=\"ICPC pic 2016\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/07\/ICPC-pic-2016.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/07\/ICPC-pic-2016-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, May found the Virginia Tech ACM ICPC Programming Team traveling across the globe to compete in the ICPC World Finals.\u00a0 This year the competition was held in Phuket, Thailand, and included 128 teams, selected from a record 2,736 participating universities during fall regional contests.\u00a0 The 2016 Virginia Tech team consisted of CS majors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-all-student-news","category-undergraduate"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}