In early September, Volgograd hosted the 1st Volgograd Open Teams Championship in Programming. Among its participants were three student teams from the Faculty of Computer Sciences of VSU, one of which took first place.
The winning team consisted of the following students from our university: Nikita Berezhnov, Maxim Novotochinov, and Yulia Shishko. The members of the second team were Danil Poluektov, Konstantin Lugovsky, and Timofey Ulesko. And the third team from the Faculty of Computer Sciences included: Mikhail Shemenev, Polina Lygina, and Pavel Pechionkin.
All in all, 27 student teams competed with each other. In addition to the students from Voronezh State University and Volgograd State Technical University, there were teams representing universities in Saratov, Samara, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Vladikavkaz, Saransk, Izhevsk, Rostov-on-Don, and Tambov.
The participants of the championship had 5 hours to solve 10 algorithmic problems and to present them in the form of a program, which was checked using specially prepared tests.
“The tasks at the championship were diverse and most of them were engaging. Each member of our team found something interesting to solve. We were also happy that there was an opportunity to discuss contexts of the problems with their authors. For the authors, it was important to see our reaction to the tasks and understand which things we found difficult. They also gave us a lot of helpful tips how to develop in programming,” said Yulia Shishko, a student from the Faculty of Computer Sciences and a member of the first team.
The first team, which consisted of experienced players, managed to solve 6 problems. The same number of problems was solved by four more teams. However, Nikita Berezhnov, Maxim Novotochinov, and Yulia Shishko were first in terms of time spent and the number of penalty points.
“Our team has taken part in this championship for the first time. According to overall results, we took tenth place and third place in hackathon. I think this is a good result for a team like us. It was interesting to spend two days with guys from different cities and the tournament and the spirit of competition encouraged us to delve into programming,” said Pavel Pechionkin, a student from the Faculty of Computer Sciences and a member of the third team.
