Ten national teams of the North Caucasus Federal University (NCFU) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science named after Professor N.I. Chervyakov took part in the qualifying stage of the World Programming Championship among student teams.

According to the results of the qualification competitions, the winners were determined – they competed for the championship along with other universities in the South and Volga region of Russia. Thanks to the success of the NCFU team last season, the two best university teams received the right to compete at the regional stage in Saratov without taking into account the selection results.

So, the bizzare_goida team won the 3rd degree diploma and the first place in NCFU. Grigory Nazarenko, Ilya Kirilenko and Ruslan Khairbekov solved six problems. In second place is the Psiop1984 team with five completed tasks: Vladislav Gorelik, Azamat Abdullin and Artyom Dadalyan. The Sparta1392 team, consisting of Nabi Aydamirov, Adam Alikhanov and Robert Babayan, also took the third place after solving five tasks.

It should be noted that the university-based competitions were held in a full-time format, and students, under the guidance of coaches from the N.I. Chervyakov Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, completed the tasks of the trial and main rounds on the online platform. After the regional stage in Saratov, the winning teams will go to the semi-finals in St. Petersburg.

The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Programming Championship has been held since 1977 according to a multi-level system: the world's universities are divided into regions in which regional finals are held. In Russia, the final of the Northern Eurasia is traditionally hosted by St. Petersburg. The selection for the regional finals for universities in the South and Volga region of Russia is based on the results of the championship at the Saratov National Research State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky, covering 26 subjects of the Russian Federation.