Our winners: TopCoder Open 2019

The final of the TopCoder Open 13 championship was held in Houston on November 16-2019, and Gena Korotkevich (Belarus) took first place in two competitive tracks at once: Algorithm and Marathon. No one has ever been able to do this before in one year! An excellent end to the 2019 season, in which Gena has already won the finals of two other major competitions: Google Code Jam and Facebook Hacker Cup.

Topcoder Open is an annual individual professional programming tournament held by Topcoder Inc. Conducted by the Topcoder system since 2001. There are six types of competitions in Topcoder: Algorithm, Development, First2Finish, UI Design, UI Prototype and Marathon.

Marathon Match (MM) is an optimization task, the correct answer to which even the organizers do not know. The programmer must offer the most efficient solution in the shortest time.

Algorithm (SRM) is classic sports programming. In an hour and a half, you need to solve problems in Java, C #, C ++ or Python.

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Finalists 2019 years

Gennady Korotkevich was born in 1994 in Belarus. In 2012 he entered the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology, Mechanics and Optics (ITMO) at the Faculty of Information Technology and Programming. In 2018, he decided to continue his postgraduate studies at ITMO.

Interview with Gennady

• 2019: Defeat also encourages victory
• 2017: “Google has called me more than once, but I don’t need a job yet”
• 2016: "11 questions to the Belarusian programmer prodigy Gennady Korotkevich"
• 2015: "Already a legend." Bloomberg about how Gena Korotkevich programs
• 2015: “Other guys will come after me”: how to become the absolute champion in programming in 20 years

Winners of previous years in the nomination Algorithm (SRM)

• Russia Petr Mitrichev Petr (2018, 2015, 2013, 2006);
• China Yuhao Du xudyh (2017);
• Japan Makoto Soejima rng_58 (2016, 2011, 2010);
• Belarus Gennady Korotkevich tourist (2014);
• Russia Egor Egor (2012); China Bin Jin crazyb0y (2009);
• poland Tomasz Czajka (2008, 2004, 2003);
• Netherlands Jan Kuipers Jan_Kuipers (2007);
• poland Eryk Kopczyñski Eryx (2005);
• Australia John Dethridge John Dethridge (2002);
• United States Jonmac (2001).

Winners of previous years in the nomination Marathon Match (MM)

• Belarus Gennady Korotkevich tourist (2018);
• poland Przemyslaw Debiak Psycho (2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2008);
• China TianCheng Lou ACRush (2015);
• South Korea Won-Seok Yoo ainu7 (2012);
• Japan Yoichi Iwata wata (2010);
• Russia Andrey Lopatin KOTEHOK (2009);
• poland Mateusz Zotkiewicz Mojito1 (2007).

Previous Years' First to Finish (F2F) Winners

Competitors are presented with a set of small programming challenges (such as fixing bugs/improvements in an existing codebase) and receive marks based on who will solve each challenge next.

• Russia Dmitry Kondakov kondakovdmitry (2018);
• Nigeria Akinwale Ariwodola akinwale (2017, 2014);
• China vvpig (2016); India Pratap Koritala supercharger (2013);
• China Lan Luo hohosky (2012);
• China Yang Li Yeung (2011);
• Ukraine Margaryta Skrypachova Margarita (2010);
• China Ninghai Huang P.E. (2009).

Winners of previous years in the nomination Software Development

Participants, in accordance with the requirements of customers for a software component / product, must implement the component / product in the best possible way in 4 hours.

• Vietnam Ngoc Pham ngoctay (2018);
• Spain Sergey Pogodin birdofpreyru (2017);
• poland Łukasz Sentkiewicz Sky_ (2016, 2015, 2014);
• China Zhijie Liu more happy (2013);
• China Yang Li Yeung (2012, 2010);
• Philippines Franklin Guevarra j3_guile (2011);
• China GuanZhuo Jin Standlove (2009 - Architecture, 2004);
• Argentina Pablo Wolfus pulky (2009 - Assembly);
• China Yanbo Wu assistant (2009 - Component Development);
• Canada Piotr Paweska AleaActaEst (2009 - Specification);
• Brazil Romano Silva romanoTC (2008);
• China Feng He hefeng (2007);
• Indonesia Sindunata Sudarmagi sindu (2006);
• China Qi Liu visualage (2005).

Winners of previous years in the UI Design nomination

Participants are invited to create the best (visual) user interface design for a software product / web portal, etc. according to customer requirements

• ThailandTeeraporn Sriponpak iamtong (2018, 2012);
• Indonesia Panji Kharisma Kharm (2017);
• Indonesia Junius Albertho abedavera (2016, 2015, 2013, 2011);
• Indonesia Faridah Amalia Mandaga fairy_ley (2014);
• Indonesia Tri Joko Rubiyanto djackmania (2010);
• Australia Dale Napier djnapier (2009);
• Philippines Nino Rey Ronda oninkxronda (2008);
• China Yiming Liao yiming (2007).

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