7 Indonesian on 2008 TopCoder Open
2008 TCO Finalist Brackets are Announced!Announcing the 120 finalists for the 2008 TopCoder Open! Through the hard work, sweat, creativity, fast fingers, sleep deprivation and determination by the best of the best, the field has been narrowed down. See who you’ll be cheering for!
Sorry if I am being late to announced this, but the final lists has been wrapped. It’s official that 7 (seven) Indonesian are going to join their 120 wordwide fellows to compete in the prestigious competition held by TopCoder, Inc, in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 11 – 15, 2008.
Included in those lucky seven is me, yes—I am being lucky twice (including joined last year TCO and TCC), joining the most populated Indonesian competitors ever, 5 out of 12, in the creative competition of Studio Design Championship. As Studio competitors, they will compete on three phases of contest held on two days at The Mirage Hotel. The best of the best scored during the contest will grabbing first prize cash of $20,000 (total prize amount is $45,000). Huge prize of course, that’s why I was very stressed to imagine how much money is it. I ranked #5 among the final advancers, with other Indonesian, including are: abedavera, last year TCCC champion grabbing $15,000 prize; djackmania, new this year but showing his shiny creative talents; Tricia, currently studying design at Singapore’s NAFTA; and sweetpea, which until now unable to be contacted by me. Two Indonesian got placed 12 top rank was unable to get their proper travel, so they was failed to join us.
As you might knew, on Algorithm Competition, we had ardiankp, twice Google Code Jam India winner accumulated score of 2878 and stay on #34 rank list. Congratulations, Ardian! He is the only Indonesian algorithm competitor on TCO. The Algorithm Competition will award prizes to up to 300 competitors participating in Online Round 3 and $70,000 in cash prizes to the competitors who compete in the Onsite Rounds. The first place finisher (Champion) will get $15,000.
Of course, we also had enefem21 on Component Competition in Development track. He grabbed 47 points, that’s enough to get 12 top leaderboard, he also ranked as #8. The Component Competition will award $120,000 in cash prizes, with $60,000 being awarded for each competition (Design & Development). The first place finisher will grab $25,000 to home.
Look forward to seeing Vegas next May. Really excited. I hoped I get a chance to report about it, not like past events. See, getting connection and proper blogging time is not easy. GPRS international roaming is really not cheap, and because I would not planning to bring my laptop, write a blog post via my Samsung i600 is probably inconvenient.
Well, let’s see.
The TopCoder Open
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 140,000 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/.
Andika Triwidada, 22/04/08 08:57 AM:
Selamat! Semoga sukses
pebbie, 22/04/08 12:24 PM:
wah, selamat! semoga menang!
antonrifco, 22/04/08 10:50 PM:
what a talent !
I thought w/ those, u’ll get lucky on any competition :D
okay, good luck and be prepared 4 the best !
Jek, 23/04/08 01:22 AM:
Selamat! Semoga kita sukses :)
Eru, 23/04/08 02:17 AM:
Woow, congrats guys! Let ‘em know what we’ve got!
nurhidayat, 23/04/08 07:52 PM:
Selamat berjuang! Semoga menang, buktikan pada dunia bahwa bangsa Indonesia juga BISA!
Sigit, 25/04/08 02:32 PM:
Good luck, mas. I believe you can do it. I salute you, to have the perseverance to do this. Take a lot of pictures, would you?
Dev, 29/04/08 02:20 PM:
Congrat…
All the best…
Be a winner Bro’s..:)