KTH team won 24 hour Programming Contest
Last weekend a team from KTH won the 24-hour World Programming Championships in Budapest, Hungary. This is the second time that KTH has won the competition.
KTH has an extremely successful record over the last three years. In 2007, KTH took first, second and third place, in 2008 second and third place. This year’s winning team "Three-Headed Monkey", consisted of Per Austrin, Gunnar Kreitz, and Mattias de Zalenski from KTH and the Spotify music site.
This year’s competition was extremely close at the top with a team from UK and South Africa taking second place and the reigning champions from Poland in third. The competition consists of a large number of tasks that are totally new to the participants and which vary considerably. Teams have to be prepared to manage any problems at all and to work intensively for 24 hours to solve them.
Some of this year’s tasks included programming a robot to play the TV game Guitar Hero and programming lego robots.
Christer Gummeson