Online Programming Contest for Universities 2020
inzva greeted the winter of 2020 with ‘Online Programming Contest for Universities’, a two-round, team-based contest in collaboration with leading Turkish universities and algotester.com. Final Contest, the second round, was held on December 26 following the first round, Qualification Round, on December 12, 2020. inzva held the first-ever OPC collaboratively with our 14 partner universities and their student clubs.
The whole journey started with an Opening Webinar, where students, academics, and inzva Algorithm Team had the opportunity to get to know each other and socialize.
After the Opening Webinar, the OPC participants were given the chance to solve sample problems in the Practice Session while learning all technical details about the Online Programming Contest explained by the algotester team.
PARTNER unıversities and student clubs
OPC 2020 in Numbers
585 individual applicants from 25 different universities applied to the OPC 2020 in total and 156 teams from 14 different universities were found eligible for participation. All eligible teams were invited to participate in the Qualification Round on December 12. The teams competed against each other, trying to solve 7 problems within 5 hours.
You can check all qualified universities’ scoreboards here.
OPC 2020: THE FINAL
The top three qualifying teams from 14 universities were invited to the Final Round on December 26. A total of 42 teams competed with the other qualifying teams, trying to solve 11 problems within 5 hours. The maximum number of problems solved by a team in the OPC Final Contest was eight.
The Top Ten Team
You can check the Final Round’s scoreboard here.
Some statistics for Final Contest
You don’t think we will stop here, don’t you? We will be continuing our journey with our beloved Algorithm Competition League which will be back once more on February 6, 2021.
If you want to improve your programming skills and see yourself among the advanced algorithm enthusiasts, do not forget to check the application form on our website and apply until February 3!
Special thanks to;
Tuğçe Ulutuğ for leading our social media accounts and preparing winners’ gifts and all designs used during OPC; to our general manager Ahmet Utku Yavuz for diligently and carefully designing, conducting and overviewing the whole process; to our community manager Murat Karademir for communicating with universities’ computer departments and university clubs with Gül Çetin, who also made sure the contest run smoothly; to our coordinator Havva Yüksel for working with Algotester Team and properly handling the all technical details before, during and after the Contest and to Almira Bağlar for proofreading all problems and communication materials.
inzva is supported by BEV Foundation, an education foundation for the digital native generation which aims to build communities that foster peer-learning and encourage mastery through one-to-one mentorship.
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