We had an early flight to catch, so I didn’t have time to write a blog post after the award ceremony. Unfortunately from __future__ import solution did not solve E after the freeze, but they did solve J! Also iiiii did solve J after the freeze. Both teams very actually very close to solving problem E. Some downs are to be expected during a competition though.

This resulted in from __future__ import solution placing 17th and iiiii placing 38th. We would have hoped for a medal, and it looked very promising in the beginning, but 17th is still very good - best Swedish team, second best Nordic team. Last year me, Lars and Johannes placed 17th as well, but I’m certain the teams in general were better this year.

iiiii are really good at solving problems compared to the low amount of programming experience they have. 6 problems is a very good result. Too become even better I think they need to practice implementing solved problems faster!

During the freeze Treenity from Cambridge solved the only problem they had left, very impressive!

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