Jeff Donahoo and Doug Heintzman take the international press covering this year’s contest on a behind-the-scenes tour of the World Finals. (at Jubilee Sports Palace – St. Petersburg)

The host bear is helping the ICPCNews team spread the word about the World Finals. Well, maybe he is playing more than helping … (at Jubilee Sports Palace – St. Petersburg)

Defending champion and host ITMO (center) have amassed the largest bouquet of balloons. The team has answered 8 out of 11 problems correctly. Two hours remain in the competition. National Taiwan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University remain in 2nd and 3rd place,...

Difficulty of World Finals problems are unmatched

Problems that take ICPC world finalists a few hours to solve would take less advanced students weeks to solve. That’s how hard World Finals-caliber problems are. ICPC Challenge Director David Sturgill said one of the hardest steps in solving the problems is...

St. Petersburg ITMO extends lead

We are halfway done, and hosts and defending champions St. Petersburg ITMO has extended their lead by solving a 7th problem.  As the teams are working away, their coaches are having a new opportunity to look inside the competition. On their own tablets and laptops or...