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ICPC 2025 World Finals Results

103 points by pykello

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The "Diamond Sponsors" of the event are Huawei and OpenAI. I found the welcome note from OpenAI [1] quite curious:
"[...] Eventually, AI will be able to solve even the hardest contest problems that we’ve seen yet. It will work alongside us and help drive the discovery of new knowledge. What you take from this week - the sense of being stuck, the thrill of progress, and the practice of building together - will remain critical as you shape your community and the future you build. [...]"
By Chief Scientist of OpenAI, Jakub Pachocki. Who happens to be an incredibly accomplished Competitive Programmer (2nd in ICPC World Finals, Winner of Code Jam, 2nd in Hacker Cup).
[1] https://icpc.global/community/history/brochures/world-finals...

by toonewbie

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I was onsite today watching the contest live, and great atmosphere all around. One surprising outcome: the team in 17th place solved the same number of problems as the team that won gold in 4th place. Hopefully that isn't too demotivating to any team and we can see better separation in the future. After all, it can only mean that the problemsetters underestimated the contestants ;)
Congratulations to all the teams!

by pykello

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Video recordings: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaSPkFE9cpGT_SuxamW9e...

by imadethis

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The headers A-L are links to the problem PDFs if you want to see.

by partomniscient

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The ICFP progamming contest for this years International Conference on Functional Programming started today if anyone's interested.
https://icfpcontest2025.github.io/index.html

by akamaka

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In the TV show Silicon Valley, there’s a joke that Nelson “Big Head” Bighetti, the perennial underperformer, did his undergrad at ASU. But I guess that’s one thing the show got wrong, because Arizona State University finished among the top three American schools in the world finals.

by coolThingsFirst

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Great memories of ICPC. Their problem statements are so creative it’s insane.
Nothing like CF garbage, solving imaginary patterns that no one cares about.

by jmpman

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Wow ASU, the 4th highest US School. Not bad when also being a top party school.

by lordhumphrey

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Wow, China with a pretty dominant position there with 3 teams in the top five. Interesting seeing Karlsruhe there too, I'd been looking at that school.

by cptroot

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Does anyone know how long it will be until the input/output data packet is made available? I'm interested in taking a crack at some of these but know I always miss an edge case.

by sanatik

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My alma-mater is only 61st. I remember the times we’re top 30. Great atmosphere though! I wonder if these competitions will become obsolete as LLMs advance.

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by riku_iki

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I expected fast response from AI labs about what kind of medals top models could win.

by agnishom

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What is Moscow's secret to training their programmers so well?

by muldvarp

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I expect OpenAI to have crushed the competition here.

by wiz21c

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what's the meaning of of the A,B,C... columns It's a ratio but of what over what ?

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