Online Programming Contest for Universities 2021 Report
Offering a national competitive programming contest environment for undergraduate students, inzva held the ‘Online Programming Contest for Universities’(‘OPC’) for the second time on December 19, 2021!
THIRD YEAR IN A ROW
The contest was held for the second time, however, OPC is a proud successor of the Turkish Programming Contest (“TPC”) which was held in Beykoz Kundura in 2019. The following year, due to the pandemic, the contest was moved to online and even though the location of the contest changed, some things have remained the same.
Our goal of making competitive programming known and helping computer engineer candidates to increase their level of efficient code-writing through friendly competition has stayed with us throughout these three years and will continue to do so.
ABOUT THE CONTEST
The Online Programming Contest is a two-round, team-based contest initiated in collaboration with participating Turkish universities and our community-based competitive programming platform, algoleague. It is open to all undergraduates studying in Turkey and who are willing to compete in teams of three. For the first time ever, we organized OPC on our competitive programming platform. As this was the first-ever national-level competition to be held on algoleague, we were quite excited to share the platform with so many users at the same time.
FROM OUR COMMUNITY FOR OUR COMMUNITY: algoleague
algoleague is a competitive programming platform where algorithm enthusiasts of all levels practice their algorithmic thinking skills and compete in contests both in teams and individually. The platform is powered by inzva community and supported by BEV Foundation.
JOURNEY OF OPC 2021
Final rankings of the participating teams can be found here on the leaderboard.
The top 3 TEAM
1st Team - cpu_goes_brrr from Boğaziçi University: Murat Ekici, Yasin Kaya, Ekrem Bal
2nd Team - opc from Boğaziçi University: Atakan Yaşar, Eren Altunoğlu, Kayacan Vesek
3rd Team - unagi from İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University: Oğuzhan Özçelik, Ziya Mukhtarov, Samed Uslu
Oğuzhan Özçelik, Bilkent University, Member of unagi team
“This year's OPC was a great experience. There was a lot of effort put into it. The inzva team responsible for this contest was really helpful throughout the whole process. Using the algoleague platform for the first time was an interesting experience as well. There weren't any big Turkish competitive programming platforms as big as algoleague and considering it is their first official nationwide contest, it was way better than my expectations and I believe it will become even better next year. I would definitely recommend to students at Turkish universities to compete in OPC/TPC.
THE TOP TEN TEAMS
Some Statistics for the Final Contest Problems
TECHNICAL TEAM
We would like to thank them for their continuous effort and support before, during, and after the contest!
SPONSORS
layer.co and Seven Bridges became our co-sponsors for the OPC 2021. We thank them for supporting our mission.
OPC 2021 PRIZE CEremony
6- PynamicDrogramming - İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University - inzva kit(a backpack, pen, notebook, sticker, mousepad and t-shirt)
7- 4kppg - Middle East Technical University - inzva kit
8- ICPC TOKAT - İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University - inzva kit
9- WinnerOfOPC - Hacettepe University - inzva kit
10- YazilimOgren - Hacettepe University - inzva kit
INTERESTED IN SOLVING THE CONTEST PROBLEMS?
Qualification Round Problems:
algoleague.com/contest/online-programming-contest-2021-qualification-round/problem/list
Final Contest Problems:
algoleague.com/contest/online-programming-contest-2021-final-contest/problem/list
We are currently preparing the editorials of each problem for everyone who wants to practice and sharpen their programming skills.
If these are still not enough, check out all the problems on algoleague from all levels here.
Special thanks to;
Our coordinator Havva Yüksel for properly handling the technical details before, during, and after the Contest and working with algoleague team; to Gül Çetin for ensuring the whole process run smoothly and maintaining contest timelines; to our general manager Ahmet Utku Yavuz for carefully overviewing the whole event; to our community manager Murat Karademir for keeping in touch with computer science departments and university clubs of universities along with Mustafa Çelik; to Dilara Saçal for proofreading all problems and communication materials; to Tuğçe Ulutuğ for preparing winners’ gifts and to all of our participants for the intriguing and creative team names!
As we are finishing the report, we are already on our way to designing and planning the next one. If you wish to participate in the next contest, keep an eye on our website!
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