Secret international competition: ACM-ICPC world finals Bashny.Net

Recently, a reporter visited a very significant and almost secret international event. You will not find on the Internet pictures of him, except for the presentation of the Cup or at best shared plans, although it is already since 1977. Don't even try to guess what it is without looking under the cat, the year of the first championship in will definitely confuse you.
1. One hundred twenty teams. Sports arena. Two cameras webcast. The audience. And... absolute silence for five hours.





2. No action, just an incredible mental work.





3. It is difficult even to imagine how these events took place 37 years ago. The calculating machine "Felix", a slide rule and a pencil with a sheet of paper? Computers at that time was the size of a room or a whole house.





4. This is the final of the international world team championship on programming ACM ICPC. For the first time in history, it took place in Russia.





5. Despite the fact that they are still at University, all who reached the final, already employed





6. To follow started the fifth grade, when they won their first Olympic games on programming.
These people already belong to the whole world. There are very few companies that can constantly download tasks programmers at this level. They are very complicated. Stocks can crash for millions of dollars if it would leave the main developers. It is difficult to create conditions for work and almost impossible to assemble a team in which they could work.





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