VUW Hosts ACM International Programming Contest Heat

This past Saturday (15th September), for the first time, Victoria University hosted the lower North Island heat of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (South Pacific Region). Two Victoria teams did very well for first time entrants by coming 20th (Hugh_Oli_Mudge) and 42nd (Obscure Reference) out of 66 teams across Australia and New Zealand. Congratulations to Hugh Davenport, Oliver Jennings, Michael Mudge of Hugh_Oli_Mudge, and Carlton Downey, Samuel Hegarty and Gustav van der Merwe from Obscure Reference. The organisers would like to thank Neil Ramsay for acting as Head Judge, to Tatsat Mishra and David Stirling for general support, and MSCS, the ACM and IBM for sponsorship.

For more information about the Contest, see the ICPC website here: http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/.