120 TopCoder Members Representing 30 Countries Gathered in Las Vegas for Recognition, Honors and Share of $260,000 in Prize Money LAS VEGAS, May 16
LAS VEGAS, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Programming athletes from Poland, the
U.S., Brazil and the Philippines were named champions in the Algorithm,
Design, Development, Studio Design and Marathon Match events of the 2008
TopCoder Open at the Mirage Resort in Las Vegas this week. Tomasz Czajka of
Poland took first place in the $25,000 Algorithm competition; Tim Roberts of
the United States finished with top honors in the Software Design event,
earning $25,000 for his win; the Software Development champion was Romano
Silva of Brazil, who won $15,000; Studio Design champion Nino Rey Ronda of the
Philippines took the $15,000 purse for the graphics design track; and the
Marathon Match $15,000 prize went to Przemyslaw Debiak of Poland. In all, more
than $260,000 in prizes was at stake for the 120 competitors from around the
world. Sponsors and patrons of the 2008 TopCoder Open included AOL, BT, Lilly,
Betfair, VeriSign and the U.S. National Security Agency. Full details
including multimedia archives are available online at:
http://www.topcoder.com/tco08 .
Czajka, known to the TopCoder Community by his handle 'tomek', won the
Algorithm event with a score of 746 points. Czajka was the only competitor to
successfully attempt the hard level problem. Petr Mitrichev, aka 'Petr' from
the Russian Federation, placed second; and third place went to Eryk
Kopczynski, aka "Eryx", also of Poland.
Tim Roberts, aka 'Pops,' of the United States prevailed in the Software
Component Design competition with Codrut-Lucian Lazar, 'Luca' of Romania and
Celsus Kintanar, 'ShindouHikaru', of the Phillippines placing second and
third.
The Software Development champion, Romano Silva, aka 'romanoTC' of Brazil
overcame second place finalist Ninghai Huang, 'PE', of China and Jerrish
Varghese, 'cyberjag', of India.
The TopCoder Studio Graphic Design winner was Nino Rey Ronda, aka
'oninkxronda', of the Philippines with Maureen, 'sweetpea', of Indonesia and
Arif Widianto, 'oton', also of Indonesia, rounding out the top finishers.
In the Marathon Match, Przemyslaw Debiak, aka 'Psyho', of Poland bested
Tuomas Pelkonen, aka 'tpelkone', of Finland and Bohua Zhan, aka 'bhzhan', of
the United States.
This tournament marked the first time the individual tracks performed as a
microcosm of the entire TopCoder process. Studio, design and development
combined to develop an entire application in three days. The winning Studio
submission from 'oninkxronda' designed the entire front end application, which
utilized a data feed designed by 'Pops' and implemented by 'romanoTC'.
"The truly international flavour of the event and boundless energy of the
competitors, sponsors and spectators was absolutely impressive," said Rob
Hughes, President and COO of TopCoder, Inc. "The TopCoder Open is an
undeniably awesome example of what a professional global community can be."
The annual TopCoder Open draws the world's top software developers from
around the world to match skills in a variety of competitions, with more than
4,700 talented competitors registered across all competitions.
The TopCoder Open (TCO) is host to both professional and collegiate
developers, who compete head-to-head over several online elimination rounds
until the best are flown in to compete in person at the onsite finals. This
event is dominated by the highest rated members in the TopCoder community, but
enjoys heavy participation and spectatorship from developers and business
professionals of all levels. The TopCoder Software Symposium, held onsite at
the TCO, features a series of seminars just for developers, with special
guests on hand as keynote speakers.
About TopCoder Competitions
TopCoder tournaments are known worldwide as the most grueling,
comprehensive test of skill in the field of competitive programming. The
events allow competitors to solve complex algorithmic problems and design and
develop working pieces of reusable software. All current industry standard
technologies are incorporated, including Java, C++, C#, VB.NET, UML, J2EE and
.NET.
About TopCoder, Inc.
TopCoder is the world's largest competitive software development community
with over 150,000 developers representing over 200 countries. TopCoder hosts
the largest and most comprehensive developer ratings and performance metrics
available. The TopCoder community builds software for a wide-ranging client
base through a competitive, rigorous, standards based methodology. This
methodology results in a highly consistent set of software components allowing
a software-as-parts approach to application development. TopCoder makes this
large library of software components built through competition available to
all of our clients. Utilizing a world-wide member base and this library,
TopCoder seeks to lower the cost of software development while increasing both
the speed at which applications can be developed and the quality of the
ultimate application. For more information about sponsoring TopCoder events,
recruiting TopCoder members and utilizing TopCoder's software services, visit
http://www.topcoder.com/.
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Jim McKeown
TopCoder, Inc.
860.633.5540
jmckeown@topcoder.com
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