Yesterday, we went to La Salle Canlubang ( Laguna ) for the First Philippine National Inter-Collegiate Programming Competition (Philippine ICPC 2007) in the country. It was organized by the Computing Society of the Philippines ( CSP ) and hosted by the said school. This competition is an ACM International sanctioned event for the ACM ICPC held every year. For the past 5 years, a Regional ACM ICPC is held here in Manila, but for this year it is hosted by the National University of Singapore. Unlike the previous years when joining ICPC will only cost teams the registration fees, this time aspiring World Finalists will also need plane tickets to Singapore. The 1st place of yesterday’s competition is assured a spot in the Asia Regional Finals in Singapore c/o CSP.

Fifty teams from all over the country went to La Salle Canlubang to get a chance to get a free ride to Singapore. But the team that took home the golden chalise was the UP Fighting Morons (their team name) consisting of Marte Raphael Soliza ( I call him Lord Marte )- 4th year, Ralph Rainier Pineda - 1st year and Reginald Eli Deinla - 3rd year answering 5 out of the 6 problems! Ateneo got the second place, UP Los Banos got the 3rd, La Salle Taft was the 4th and my team with James Wyson and Ralph Justin Arce got the 5th place. All of these teams solved 3 problems each. I don’t know the rest but another group from UP Diliman entered the Top Ten, that’s the team of Wigi Vei Oliveros, John Kristofferson Sanchez and Pio Ryan Lumongsod.

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