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- IIIT-Hyderabad will be represented by the TooWeakTooSlow team in ACM-ICPC World Finals 2018.
- This year World Championship round is being hosted by Peking University on April 19 in Beijing.
Students of IIIT Hyderabad (International Institute of Information Technology) have emerged as winners of regional finals of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The team from IIIT Hyderabad that won the regional finals will represent India at ACM-ICPC World Finals 2018. The finals of this competition will take place in Beijing on April 19, 2018. Peking University is going to host this grand event.
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ACM-ICPC is often regarded as ‘Olympics of Programming’. For the 2018 edition of the contest, over 136 teams across the work have been selected. During the finals of the event, the teams comprising of three members will have to work on eight or more real-world problems within a deadline of five hours. The contest will test the mental endurance, teamwork strategy and application of logic by the teams.
IIIT Hyderabad’s ‘TooWeak TooSlow’ team comprising of Rajas Vanjape, CG Vedant and Tanuj Khattar belong to fourth-year CSE/ CSD course. The team has constantly won online rounds, as well as, regional rounds including finals, and bagged the top spot in India. Teams from various premier institutes in India such as IITs also took part in the contest.
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According to the official data of ICPC, over 46,381 participants from 2,948 universities across 103 countries competed in regional competitions. The regional competitions were conducted in 530 sites across the globe.
Last year, Tanuj and Rajas made it to the finals of the contest. Gaining experience from the previous edition of the contest, the IIIT Hyderabad team is aiming to win the competition this year.
