Poland, U.S., Brazil and Philippines Win Computer Programming Gold in 2008 TopCoder Open

LAS VEGAS, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Programming athletes fromPoland, the U.S.,Brazil andthe Philippines were named champions in the Algorithm, Design, Development, Studio Design and Marathon Match events of the 2008 TopCoder Open at the Mirage Resort inLas Vegas this week. Tomasz Czajka of Poland took first place in the $25,000 Algorithm competition; Tim Roberts of the United States finished with top honors in the Software Design event, earning $25,000 for his win; the Software Development champion was Romano Silva ofBrazil, who won $15,000; Studio Design champion Nino Rey Ronda ofthe Philippines took the $15,000 purse for the graphics design track; and the Marathon Match $15,000 prize went to Przemyslaw Debiak ofPoland. In all, more than $260,000 in prizes was at stake for the 120 competitors from around the world. Sponsors and patrons of the 2008 TopCoder Open included AOL, BT, Lilly, Betfair, VeriSign and the U.S. National Security Agency. Full details including multimedia archives are available online at: http://www.topcoder.com/tco08 .

Czajka, known to the TopCoder Community by his handle 'tomek', won the Algorithm event with a score of 746 points. Czajka was the only competitor to successfully attempt the hard level problem. Petr Mitrichev, aka 'Petr' from theRussian Federation, placed second; and third place went to Eryk Kopczynski, aka "Eryx", also ofPoland.

Tim Roberts, aka 'Pops,' ofthe United States prevailed in the Software Component Design competition with Codrut-Lucian Lazar, 'Luca' ofRomania and Celsus Kintanar, 'ShindouHikaru', of the Phillippines placing second and third.

The Software Development champion, Romano Silva, aka 'romanoTC' ofBrazil overcame second place finalist Ninghai Huang, 'PE', ofChina and Jerrish Varghese, 'cyberjag', ofIndia.

The TopCoder Studio Graphic Design winner was Nino Rey Ronda, aka 'oninkxronda', ofthe Philippines with Maureen, 'sweetpea', ofIndonesia and Arif Widianto, 'oton', also ofIndonesia, rounding out the top finishers.

In the Marathon Match, Przemyslaw Debiak, aka 'Psyho', ofPoland bested Tuomas Pelkonen, aka 'tpelkone', ofFinland and Bohua Zhan, aka 'bhzhan', of the United States.

This tournament marked the first time the individual tracks performed as a microcosm of the entire TopCoder process. Studio, design and development combined to develop an entire application in three days. The winning Studio submission from 'oninkxronda' designed the entire front end application, which utilized a data feed designed by 'Pops' and implemented by 'romanoTC'.

"The truly international flavour of the event and boundless energy of the competitors, sponsors and spectators was absolutely impressive," said Rob Hughes, President and COO of TopCoder, Inc. "The TopCoder Open is an undeniably awesome example of what a professional global community can be."

The annual TopCoder Open draws the world's top software developers from around the world to match skills in a variety of competitions, with more than 4,700 talented competitors registered across all competitions.

The TopCoder Open (TCO) is host to both professional and collegiate developers, who compete head-to-head over several online elimination rounds until the best are flown in to compete in person at the onsite finals. This event is dominated by the highest rated members in the TopCoder community, but enjoys heavy participation and spectatorship from developers and business professionals of all levels. The TopCoder Software Symposium, held onsite at the TCO, features a series of seminars just for developers, with special guests on hand as keynote speakers.

About TopCoder Competitions

TopCoder tournaments are known worldwide as the most grueling, comprehensive test of skill in the field of competitive programming. The events allow competitors to solve complex algorithmic problems and design and develop working pieces of reusable software. All current industry standard technologies are incorporated, including Java, C++, C#, VB.NET, UML, J2EE and .NET.

About TopCoder, Inc.

TopCoder is the world's largest competitive software development community with over 150,000 developers representing over 200 countries. TopCoder hosts the largest and most comprehensive developer ratings and performance metrics available. The TopCoder community builds software for a wide-ranging client base through a competitive, rigorous, standards based methodology. This methodology results in a highly consistent set of software components allowing a software-as-parts approach to application development. TopCoder makes this large library of software components built through competition available to all of our clients. Utilizing a world-wide member base and this library, TopCoder seeks to lower the cost of software development while increasing both the speed at which applications can be developed and the quality of the ultimate application. For more information about sponsoring TopCoder events, recruiting TopCoder members and utilizing TopCoder's software services, visit http://www.topcoder.com/.

TopCoder is a registered trademark of TopCoder, Inc. inthe United States and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

    Jim McKeown
    TopCoder, Inc.
    860.633.5540
    jmckeown@topcoder.com

SOURCE TopCoder, Inc.

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