Student competitors and their instructing teacher at the contest scene | The scene of the contest |
The final of the 33rd ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ACM-ICPC World Final) was held at the library of KTH Royal University of Technology, Stockholm the capital city of Sweden, from 3:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on April 21 of Beijing time, and 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on April 21 of the local time of Stockholm. Under the leadership of Mr. HUANG Han, a teacher from the School of Software (SE), the team representing SCUT comprised of LIU Hailang from SE, LI Zhiwei from the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, and WU Yuanhao from the School of Computer Science and Engineering entered the final competition. After five hours of heated contest, the team ranked the 13th among universities from all over the world and the 3rd among Asian universities, earning their first bronze medal of ACM-ICPC World Final.