ONLINE PROGRAMMING CONTEST FOR UNIVERSITIES 2022 Report

The ‘Online Programming Contest for Universities' (‘OPC’) was organized by inzva for the third time on September 17, 2022, providing undergraduate students with a national competitive programming contest environment!

We have been organizing OPC for the last three years, and we will continue to do so, with the aim of encouraging algorithmic, analytical and productive thinking.

ABOUT THE CONTEST

The Online Programming Contest is a team-based contest initiated in collaboration with participating Turkish universities and our community-based competitive programming platform, algoleague. All undergraduate students in Turkey who are willing to compete in teams of three are able to participate.

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 is supported by BEV Foundation.

JOURNEY OF OPC 2022

In the end, the top 5 teams were;

bence kral son yarisini bitirebilmeli from Boğaziçi University: Halil İbrahim Kasapoğlu, Harun Sami Çelik, Ömer Talip Akalın

arti bir from İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University: Samed Uslu, Tuna Bozkurt, Muti Kara

PynamicDrogramming from İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University: Yusuf Ziya Özgül, Uğur Erdem Seyfi, Aras Gündüz.

TahSins from Yaşar University: Furkan Cebe, Ömer Öztitiz, Merve Yeşil.

OPC and Cay form Istanbul Technical University: Ömer Faruk Özkan, Fatih Mehmet Köş, Berke Dönmez.

*Abdullah Samed Uslu, Bilkent University, Participant of* Online Programming Contest for Universities 2022

“At the start of the Contest due to strategic and simple personal mistakes, we made an entry below our expectations which put us down a bit. However, learning from our past competition experience that the contest is long enough and that there is enough time to cover the effects of a bad start, we quickly devised a new strategy and followed it up for the remainder of the contest and decided to focus on our main goal for which is to enjoy the questions. When we look back, we can say that the effort of the inzva team both during the preparation process and in the post-contest activities (zoom meeting) was definitely worth it and it was a very fun process for us. Although the questions were a little difficult compared to our expectations, it was obvious that they were carefully prepared and, above all, it was entertaining trying to solve them. The participation of teams from different universities that were not in the competition in the past years was also very pleasing in terms of the spread of competitive programming in the country. In order to increase this diversity even more next year, I would definitely recommend everyone to participate and enjoy the competition.”

THE TOP TWENTY TEAMS

Final rankings of the participating teams can be found here on the leaderboard.

Some Statistics for the Contest Problems

TECHNICAL TEAM

We would like to thank them for their continuous effort and support before, during, and after the contest!

PRIZES

1st Place: Sennheiser PXC 550-II Wireless Headphones

2nd Place: JBL Flip 5 Portable Bluetooth Speaker

3rd Place: Samsung MU-PC500T7 Portable SSD - 500GB

4th Place: MIS Vigor GK30 Combo Keyboard Set

5th Place: Stanley Neverleak Travel Mug

Between 6th and 10th Place: inzva backpack kit(a backpack, pen, notebook, sticker, and t-shirt)

Between 11th and 20th Place: inzva totebag kit(a totebag, pen, notebook, sticker)

INTERESTED IN SOLVING THE CONTEST PROBLEMS?

You can find the Contest problems here.

We currently prepare the editorials of each problem for everyone who wants to practice and sharpen their programming skills.

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 Rumeysa Tulay for ensuring the whole process run smoothly and preparing winners’ gifts; to our general manager Ahmet Utku Yavuz for carefully overviewing the whole event; to Dilara Saçal for proofreading all problems and communication materials; Ayşenur Yıldırım for managing social media accounts and our technical team Kerim Kochekov, Kadir Emre Oto, Melih Akpınar, Orhan Uysal, Serra Bozkurt, Tahsin Enes Kuru, Yasin Kaya, Yılmaz Barış Kaplan for preparing the questions and dealing with all technical issues throughout the contest!

We strive to do better every year, improvement is a never-ending journey for us. If you wish to participate in the next contest, keep an eye on our website!

A BEV Foundation project inzva is a non-profit hacker community organizing study and project groups as well as camps in the fields of AI and Algorithm; and gathering CS students, academics, and professionals in Turkey.