The overdue finals of the 46th ICPC 2022 and 47th 2023 editions were held in Luxor, Egypt. Of the Polish teams, the best performers were this year’s ICPC European champions from the UW, consisting of Arkadiusz Czarkowski, Bartlomiej Czarkowski and Tomasz Nowak, who won the bronze medal by taking 12th place. The team was mentored by Prof. Krzysztof Diks and assisted by Prof. Jan Madey.
The Academic World Champions for 2022 were the team from Peking University, which was the only one to solve 10 tasks, ahead of MIT (9) and HSE University from Moscow (9). Universities took further places from the UK, Russia, South Korea and Ukraine (9 each), the US, and Japan, and two from China and Taiwan (8 each). UWr ranked 25th (7 tasks), UW – 33rd (6), and UJ – 34th (6).
The Academic World Champions 2023 team from HSE University in Moscow solved 9 tasks ahead of Peking University (9) and Moscow University (9). The following medal-winning places were universities from Spain and China (9 each), one more from China, South Korea, Canada, and 2 from Japan (8 each), and from the USA and Poland (7 each). UJ ranked 23rd (6).
3,500 universities from 111 countries took part in the preliminaries. 131 teams qualified for the ICPC 2022 finals, and 136 qualified for the ICPC 2023 finals. Teams had 11 tasks to solve in both finals, with only 5 being common.
The bronze medal added to the UW’s collection, which has won 5 gold, 7 silver and 5 bronze medals in 29 starts at ICPC finals. Another chance for more later this year at the 2024 ICPC Finals, which will be held as early as September in Astana, Kazakhstan. In addition to the UW, the UJ and UWr teams have traditionally qualified.
Polish accents
Other Polish accents in Luxor are also worth mentioning. The mentor of the gold team from the University of Barcelona in the 47th final (4th place) was Kamil Debowski – a bronze medalist from the UW from ICPC 2015, while the mentor of the gold team from Oxford University in the 46th final (4th. place) was Bartosz Klin – a representative of the UW in the 1997 ICPC and 1999 ICPC finals. Jakub Pachocki, runner-up from the UW in the 2012 ICPC and currently Director of Research at OpenAI, was invited to lecture the participants in this year’s finals as part of the so-called “Alumni Lectures.”
Detailed results of both finals are here: ICPC 2022 and ICPC 2023.
More about this year’s finals can be found on the official competition website icpc.global and on the Warsaw teams’ social network here.
Also, read about UW’s success in the ICPC European Championship 2024 here.