ACM ICPC Philippines 2008: Media Release

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MEDIA RELEASE
24 November 2008
Manila, Philippines
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UP Diliman wins ACM national programming contest


Thirty nine teams from 24 schools (from places as far as Tugegarao in the North and Zamboanga City in the South) competed for the top spot in the Association for Computing Machinery - 2nd Philippine National Inter-Collegiate Programming Competition (ACM ICPC Philippines 2008) held last November 22 at the University of San Jose-Recoletos (USJ-R), Basak Campus, Cebu City.

Organized by the Computing Society of the Philippines, in cooperation with ACM, and hosted by USJ-R, the event aims to provide college students the chance to sharpen and demonstrate their problem solving, programming and teamwork skills. The contest provides a platform for ACM, industry and academe to encourage and focus public attention on the youth as they pursue excellence in computing.

Each competing team consisted of three students. During the contest, each team tried to outsmart each other by using a computer to solve six problems in three hours. The team with the most number of problems solved at the fastest time won the competition. The problems ranged from easy to complex, and included computer science topics such as data structures, combinatorics, graph algorithms and computational methods.

WINNERS

Below is a list of the top ten teams:

RANK, TEAM, SCHOOL # PROBLEMS SOLVED, TIME

1. UPD Team 1, University of the Philippines – Diliman, 6, 460
2. UPD Team 2, University of the Philippines – Diliman, 6, 569
3. UPD Team 3, University of the Philippines – Diliman, 5, 428
4. UPD Team 6, University of the Philippines – Diliman, 5, 433
5. ADMU Team 3, Ateneo de Manila University, 5, 459
6. ADMU Team 2, Ateneo de Manila University, 5, 662
7. DLSU Team 3, De La Salle University-Manila, 4, 219
8. DLSU Team 1, De La Salle University-Manila, 4, 280
9. DLSU Team 2, De La Salle University-Manila, 4, 363
10. UPD Team 4, University of the Philippines – Diliman, 4, 479

TOP THREE TEAMS

1. First Place (Champion): University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD Team 1). Members: Marte Raphael Soliza, Ralph Rainiel Pineda, and Kevinsky Ro Dy. Coach: Mr. Eric Tambasacan.

2. Second Place: University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD Team 2). Members: Kevin Charles Atienza, Rafael Lino Mantaring, and Jose Plutarco Bawagan. Coach: Mr. Eric Tambasacan.

3. Third Place: University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD Team 3). Members: Jennylyn Sze, Danielle Canlas, and Neil Bande. Coach: Mr. Eric Tambasacan.

SPECIAL AWARDS:

1. Best Coach: Mr. Eric Tambasacan, Computer Science Department, University of the Philippines-Diliman.

2. Best Team from the National Capital Region (NCR): University of the Philippines-Diliman (UPD Team 1). Members: Marte Raphael Soliza, Ralph Raniel Pineda, and Kevinsky Ro Dy. Coach: Mr. Eric Tambasacan.

3. Best Team from Luzon (excluding NCR): Ateneo de Naga University (ADNU Team Xavier) . Members: Salvador Tapel, Fermin Agomaa III, and Jelly Pantoja. Coach: Mr. Joshua Martinez.

4. Best Team from the Visayas: Cebu Institute of Technology. Members: Lawrence Ranario, Eugene, Busico, and Jufni Rizada. Coach: Ms. Larmie Feliscuzo.

5. Best Team from Mindanao: Ateneo de Davao University (Team 'Hazel Eyes'). Hyangelo Hao, Mar Vince Reyes, Tracy Lynne Sadicon. Coach: Ms. Sheila Dawn Nisperos.

TOP TEN SCHOOLS:

1. University of the Philippines-Diliman
2. Ateneo de Manila University
3. De La Salle University-Manila
4. Ateneo de Naga University
5. Ateneo de Davao University
6. Cebu Institute of Technology
7. University of Cebu-Main Campus
8. FEU-East Asia College
9. De La Salle Canlubang
10. University of San Jose-Recoletos

Dr. Rafael Saldaña from Ateneo de Manila University was the contest director and chair of the board of judges. Other judges were Dr. Eliezer Albacea of the University of the Philippines - Los Baños; Dr. Jaime Caro (represented by Mr. Phillip Zuniga) and Dr. Prospero Naval, Jr. from University of the Philippines-Diliman; Dr. Caslon Chua and Dr. Nelson Marcos from De La Salle Univerity-Manila; Dr. Kardi Teknomo from Ateneo de Manila University; and Dr. Gregg Victor Gabison from University of San Jose-Recoletos.


For more information, e-mail ACM-ICPC Philippines 2008 at computingsoc@gmail.com. Visit the contest website http://www.icpc.usjr.edu.ph/ or Dr. Saldaña's blog http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/

Related Link:

http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/2008/11/acm-icpc-philippines-2008-media-release.html


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