From 28.01.20 to 07.02.20, Petrozavodsk State University held 38th Petrozavodsk Programming Camp. 47 teams participated in the competition from 33 universities, 25 cities, 11 countries (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Poland, Romania, Latvia, Ukraine, South Korea, China, USA, Japan)

Petrozavodsk Programming Camp is traditionally a training platform for International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) winning teams: over the past 18 years, 13 times the camp participants became winners in ICPC World Finals. This time from 47 of participating teams 18 teams will take part in ICPC World Finals 2020.

Petrozavodsk Programming Camp consists of nine days of contests and two upsolving days days off between them. One of the camp's features is that participants and sponsors are generally the authors of contests. This time the authors were: 300iq; tourist; jqdai0815; teams from the following universities: SPb SU, Lviv National University, Jagiellonian University, Nizhny Novgorod SU; as well as Yandex team.

The participants enjoyed karting, bowling, and also attended events from partners of the competition: AIM Tech provided beer and snacks to members of AIM Tech Poorly Prepared Contest, Yandex puzzled participants with questions on the Yandex.Quiz, Botan Investments talked about Cyprus AI investor trip, and Huawei gave a lecture about Big Data Algorithms.

During the camp, we held a traditional Karelia Head Cup, that was number XVII already, (results you can see here), the winner of which was the Nizhny Novgorod State University team consisting of Alex Danilyuk, Nikolay Kalinin, Valeria Ryabchikova. They became the best team according to the results of all days. Congrats to them!

The best teams according to the results of all days:

Place	Team	Members						Rating
1	NNSU: Almost Retired	Alex Danilyuk Um_nik		Nikolay Kalinin KAN		Valeria Ryabchikova Ekler		198.28
2	Kazan+SPb Koresha	Ildar Gainullin 300iq		Mikhail Ivanov orz		Ramazan Rakhmatullin never_giveup		191.47
3	Tokyo U: UT a.k.a Is	Inoue yokozuna57		Isa HIR180		Takaya yutaka1999		163.15
4	Moscow IPT: Godnotent	Evgenii Belykh WHITE2302		Alexander Golovanov Golovanov399		Andrey Sergunin AndreySergunin		147.50
5	Warsaw U 2	Kondraciuk xman1024			Paluszek tribute_to_Ukraine_2022			133.99
6	NRU HSE: Logarifmya4ka	Mikhail Anoprenko manoprenko		Vladimir Romanov voidmax		Ivan Safonov manoprenko		128.80
7	SPb ITMO University 1	Nikolay Budin budalnik		Arsenii Kirillov craborac		Dmitry Sayutin cdkrot		125.37
8	Belarusian SU 1	Yahor Dubovik 244mhq		Alexander Kernozhitsky gepardo		Fedor Korobeinikov Mediocrity		122.41
9	SPb SU 2	Ivan Bochkov tranquility		Nikita Gaevoy nikgaevoy		Vladislav Makarov Kaban-5		118.83
10	SCH_Moscow AESC + 57: MEX Foundation	Egor Lifar Egor.Lifar		Semyon Savkin cookiedoth		Alexander Shekhovtsov Jatana		118.12
11	Warsaw U 1	Maciej Hołubowicz znirzej		Dawid Jamka shadowatyy		Jan Tabaszewski tabasz		112.86
12	Moscow IPT: Fennecs	Dmitriy Grigoriev gop2024		Denis Shpakovskij Denisson		Nikolay Tretyakov ShadowLight		108.38

The full version of 38th Petrozavodsk Programming Camp statistics you can find here.

The camp have been held for a long time and have its own history. During the current one, we collected some interesting statistics and we would like to summarize it:

• Each time there is at least one new university that hasn't participated in Petrozavodsk Programming Camp before. This camp for the first time we were visited by the following university: Baltic FU, University of Central Florida, Kazakh NU, Tyumen IU, Xi'an Jiaotong University.

• The traditional prize for the largest number of visits to Petrozavodsk Programming Camp (it is raffled among all participants of the camp who have not received it before) was awarded to Vladislav Makarov (Kaban-5) from SPb SU: he attended the camp for the tenth time!

• Participants high-rated the quality of prepared contests.

Photos from the camp can be seen in the album.

The next Camp in Petrozavodsk will be held at the end of August, and registration for those who wish will open in May. We are waiting for everyone!

We wish the participants good luck in the 2020 ICPC World Finals!

Contact information

• For communication: [email protected]
  
• Camp website: camp.acm.petrsu.ru
  
• Camp page in VK: vk.com/camp_acm_petrsu
  
• Camp statistics by Snark: karelia.snarknews.info