UJ’s victory in the CERC 2023 was undisputed, as it was the only team to solve 10 tasks out of 12. Second place went to the University of Warsaw ahead of the University of Wroclaw (after 9 out of 12). Last year, UJ overtook UW only by better time, as both teams solved 10 tasks out of 12 each (details here).
The CERC 2023 was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from December 8-10, 2023, and was attended by 60 three-person teams representing universities from Croatia, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary.
The gold medalists – Antoni Dlugosz, Kacper Paciorek and Kacper Topolski – are analytical computer science and mathematics students at the Faculty of Informatics at the Jagiellonian University. This time, in addition to programming skills and quick thinking, they also iron nerves: in the last hour (out of the 5 hours of the competition), they solved four tasks, more than making up for the loss to the top and making all the spectators amazed. It is Jagiellonian University’s second consecutive victory in the event and, at the same time, another success for this team in last year’s season after winning the Polish Academic Team Programming Championships in November 2023. The chaperones of the UJ teams were Dr. Lech Duraj and Krzysztof Potępa, M.Sc.
9 sets of medals (2 gold, three silver, four bronze) were awarded at the CERC competition. The top ten included two teams each from UJ, UW, UWr and the University of Zagreb (Croatia), and one each from the University of Budapest (Hungary) and Riga (Latvia).
ICPC and ICPC EUC
The first three teams in CERC 2023 (Slovenia) have earned the right to compete in the ICPC finals, which are scheduled for autumn 2024 in Astana (Kazakhstan). On the other hand, the first thirteen will participate in the ICPC EUC, which will be held for the first time ever on March 22-24, 2024, in Prague (Czech Republic). According to the regulations, each university can be represented by at most 1 team, so 4 teams from Poland, three from the Czech Republic, two from Slovakia, Croatia and one from Hungary and Latvia will go to the competition.
The full ranking is available here.
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TOP-3
- DeepL Translator is a powerful next-generation online translation tool based on neural networks. The service supports 26 languages.
- Eleven Labs is the world’s best technology for text-to-speech synthesis.
- Tomasz Czajka, Flight Software Engineer at SpaceX. He was a member of the team that was the first from Poland to win the 2003 ICPC finals.
TOP-3 on the Polish version of the site (links lead to the English version)
- Booksy is the world’s most popular app for booking appointments at hairdressers and beauty salons.
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- TOP-10 Polish companies in the gamedev sector 2023. CD Projekt is the leader, ahead of Techland and PlayWay.