Russian Code Cup is one of the few Russian-language programming championship of a world-class caliber. The competition takes place online, and participants from other countries can use dictionaries and translators. The solutions are checked automatically by PCMS2 system of ITMO University.
The problems and the technical part for Russian Code Cup are provided by Mail.Ru as well as experts from ITMO University headed by Dr. Andrey Stankevich, associate professor of the IT Department and couch of ITMO University’s programming team. In the final of Russian Code Cup he’s a member of the jury.
The participation rules are simple: anyone over 18 can take art. The competition consists of five rounds, including the final, where 50 top programmers fight for the title. The winner is determined by the top number of problems solved correctly. The reward for the first place is 300,000 roubles, for the second – 150,000 roubles, and for the third – 90,000 roubles. The top ten gets 30,000 roubles each.
ITMO University Student Gennady Korotkevich placed second in Russian Code Cup, having solved four out of six problems correctly. The winner, graduate of Moscow State University and two-time gold winner of ACM ICPC Petr Mitrichev showed better total time. His ACM ICPC teammate Egor Kulikov placed third. The final Russian Code Cup 2015 standings chart is available on the championship’s website.
Last year, Gennady Korotkevich won this competition and in the summer of 2015 also became a three-time winner of Yandex.Algorithm programming championship and a two-time winner of Google Code Jam. He’s also a two-time winner of ACM ICPC (2013, 2015) as well as Facebook Hacker Cup, Kotlin Challenge and Topcoder Open.