The final results are known!

• 1st place – Tomasz Kulczyński – prize: Full HD Sanyo PLV-Z700 Projector + Yamaha DVX-1000 Home Cinema
• 2nd place – Marcin Skotniczny – Dell Studio 17 Notebook
• 3rd place – Marcin Andrychowicz – QNAP TS-209 PRO II NAS

All finalists got MP4 Creative Zen 4GB Players, and participated in various activities.

Full ranking

Current list of finalists:

• Jakub Pachocki
• Paweł Gawrychowski
• Michał Pilipczuk
• Piotr Niedźwiedź
• Tomasz Kulczyński
• Roman Koshlyak
• Damian Karasiński
• Marcin Andrychowicz
• Marcin Skotniczny
• Michał Bartoszkiewicz
• Jan Hązła
• Alan Meller
• Rafał Pytko
• Grzegorz Guśpiel
• Mykhaylo Rybak
• Adam Polak
• Dmytro Dzhulgakov
• Paweł Pająk
• Jonasz Pamuła
• Igor Adamski

This list may change in case of resignation of invited contestans.

After sixth round the following competitors get t-shirts:

dark1n, rymoos, miloszmaki, rotu, nazgul, wojtekt, lukasz16a, w_, wader, mahtar

Individual results of round 6 are now available together with the test data used for grading.

The final ranking will be published at 8pm (GMT+2). Any appeals and questions can be submitted before this time, using Questions menu item.

If you like, you can also see the ranking for Ukrainian participants only.

Results of next three rounds are published.

Tests for round 5 are available from Downloads.

T-shirts go to: saddam, njoy89, diver, stoper, max_damage, delemeator, sky, kk420, logrus, pmnox, marcina007, sejdon, kuzu, txv, blazej, kait, neokaio, wmmartins, token, davis, tygrysek, breaman, ntusinski, ertesh, davis, dami, adami, almelv, matkk, er2er.

In the sentence "If the first played card is black or some sequence of consecutively played black cards is not preceded by a k times longer sequence of consecutive red cards, then Alice wins the game." word "preceded" means "immediately preceded", so in the example RRRBRBB sequence BB is not preceded by RRR.

Dear contestants,

“Terms and Conditions” document contained incorrect publication of tasks dates for the 5th and 6th round. The correct dates are:

• for 5th round – 25 April, 09:00 GMT+1
• for 6th round – 27 April, 17:00 GMT+1

We apologize for the inconvenience regarding this mistake.

The results of two rounds are available. You can see your scores by choosing My submissions in the menu. Tests are available from Downloads.

T-shirts after first round: andreas777, rymoos, jh, kine, zulus, koszcz, drchomik, myszor, cardi, jaaro, harbard, blacksword, psychoman

T-shirts after second round: mehtron, hcwding, grf, pablo89, pitex, andrew1993, beciu, rodis, lukaas, simak, kit1980, ostap, fagim

Unfortunalety, there is a small error in the statement of task Drilling: maximum running time is 2 seconds (not 1 second). Problem statement will be updated soon.

We have corrected a mistake in the official rules -- t-shirts will be awarded to the first 256 participants in ranking B.

The practice round has ended. You can see your results by going to My submissions in the menu. Tests are available from Downloads.

In Java solutions the class should have the same name as the 3-letter problem symbol, all lowercase.

For example, the class for problem Rectangles should be named pro.

In parallel to the ongoing contest, tasks from the consecutive rounds of AE 2009 will appear in MAIN (the tasks will appear soon after the ranklist of the respective round). The time limits will be set in the same way as in AE, however the result from MAIN cannot be used to file a complaint in AE.

In the meantime, tasks from some previous editions of Algorithmic Engagements can be found in MAIN (you can submit their solutions there).

The practice round will last from Friday 17th April 0:01 till Tuesday 21st April 9:00.

Please use Questions option in the menu to contact us (after logging in).

In case of problems with registration or logging in, please e-mail us at contest@adbglobal.com.

Registration is now open!

To participate in the contest, please register.

It is the fifth time I have a pleasure and honour to invite the most gifted Polish computer specialists to face Algorithmic Engagements. Regardless whether you are a pupil, a student, an employee of a big or a small firm, yet you like intellectual challenges, competition and you program “a bit”, you can and you should take part in this tournament. The majority of those who have already participated in it admit that although the competition is intensive, it remains in memory as a fantastic intellectual adventure.

This year the rivalry extends over Poland’s boarder. Programmers from Ukraine shall compete on the same conditions as Poles. We wish them luck.

Since it is a jubilee edition of Algorithmic Engagements, we want its final to be the final of finals. Thus, the first ten persons from the virtual round shall be invited to Zielona Góra regardless of their Algorithmic Engagements performance history.

In the end, on behalf of mine, organizers from the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics of Warsaw University, and friends from ADB, I wish all participants satisfaction from solving tasks and all the success in Algorithmic Engagements 2009.

Krzysztof Diks

I encourage to test your own abilities and to take the challenge of solving the tasks of the fifth edition of Algorithmic Engagements, organized jointly by Advanced Digital Broadcast and the Department of Mathematics, Informatics, and Mechanics of Warsaw University.

The programming competition already belongs to the most important programming events in Poland and is an unusual occasion to compete with thousands of participants. Moreover, the competition gives the possibility to meet with the great authority in the area of algorithms and programming – prof. Krzysztof Diks, and world programming masters, who as jurors prepare tasks and oversee the flow of the competition.

As every year, we prepare attractive rewards for the winners.

Undoubtedly, the biggest advantage of the tournament is the possibility of training one’s programming skills and a chance to compete with top specialists in this field, not only from Poland. For outstanding programmers who achieve highest positions in the algorithmic contest ranking, the gates to the R&D centre of international ADB Group – one of the biggest designers of digital television receivers in the world - are thrown open.

I therefore encourage to the participation in virtual rounds from 17th till 28th April this year. For their winners we are preparing attractions and rewards at the finals held in our R&D Centre in Zielona Góra on May 15-16, 2009.

Janusz Szajna, PhD
CEO of ADB Polska