FIFA World Programming

World championship on programming held since 1977 and is almost a secret international event.
On the Internet you can hardly find photos from the event, in addition to awarding the cup or at the best overall plans.
Go under the cut and enjoy the spectacle.




1. Sports Arena. One hundred and twenty teams. Spectators. Two cameras online broadcast. And ... absolute silence all five o'clock.



2. No action, just an incredible mental work.



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



4. This is the final of the international team championship on programming ACM ICPC. For the first time, it was held in Russia.



5. This is the steepest in the world team competition programmers.



6. 35 thousand participants from 91 countries in 2322 universities were struggling to get into this room, and solve 11 challenging algorithmic problems



7. This is the best young minds of the world.



8. Despite the fact that they are studying in universities, all who reached the final, already employed



9. Follow them started from the sixth grade, when they won at his first Olympic Games on programming.



10. They have guaranteed salary of 120 thousand dollars a year and the proportion of shares in companies



11. And it is not necessary that these companies are foreign



12. We will pay them no less than to the west. And the motivation of these people is quite different.



13. They already belong to the world. There are very few companies that could permanently download the programmer of such a level.



14. They are very sophisticated people. The company's shares may fall to the millions of dollars if it will leave the main developers. It is difficult to create the conditions for work and almost impossible to assemble a team in which they could work.



15. They are waiting for the company that you use every day - this is Google, Facebook, Yandex ... And of course in the complex and interesting startups. The work in the banks they consider "the floor».



16. However, the concept does not presuppose the championship hunt for employees. The same Yandex, the official partner of ACM ICPC, not even in the room had no advertising banners. All the Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian children company knows personally, because of their academic programs for which for six years has spent a billion (!) Rubles.



17. The main objective of the other - to support the environment, which can grow and develop talented guys.



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22. Balls are awarded for solving problems as well as for other services such as "first team completing quests F»



23. After 5 hours, these guys in black T-shirts will be the winners. Before that, in different combinations, pererburgskaya team of the National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) became the world champion four times.



24. Second place went to the team of the Shanghai University of Technology, the third - the University of Tokyo



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