The 35th ACM/ICPC(Association for Computing Machinery/ International Collegiate Programming Contest) Asia was recently held in Harbin University of Technology, attracting 126 teams from 83 universities. NUPT sent its team Blue Tiger to compete in the event and brought back a bronze, the best for a Jiangsu team.
ACM/ICPC is known as the largest as well as highest-level event of its kind. Teams first compete in preliminary contests in their own continents from September to December and only 1 team in each continent will win a ticket to the world finals, which are held in March to April the next year.