[tfm]

Related article: St Petersburg State University took out first place in that particular competition, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University took second. Teams from St Petersburg won the previous two years, also.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/st-petersburg-state-...

[s_dev]

I don't get why Harvard gets to be in the title, why a Harvard link was chosen for the story when they came third. The winner of the competition should be the story.

[joowani → s_dev]

well this is on Harvard's site after all

[codepie]

ICPC WF 2016 problems : https://icpc.baylor.edu/worldfinals/problems/icpc2016.pdf Full rank list : https://icpc.baylor.edu/scoreboard/

[Infinitesimus → codepie]

Thanks for providing the source!

(tangent. anyone else having cert issues with trying to open the second link in FF?)

[slantaclaus]

Is this news? What do they normally place?

[kolbe → slantaclaus]

intuitively, i would have thought that the most well-endowed university in the world finishing third wouldn't be bigger news than another university finishing first. but what do i know?