M(IT)^2 2024 Spring Epilogue
We are thrilled to conclude this school year with another successful initiative! ❤ Thank you to everyone who tuned in and participated in the Qualification Round, and a huge round of applause to our finalists, many of whom traveled thousands of miles across the ocean to join us in person!
Less than a year ago, the MIT Informatics Tournament (originally abbreviated as MIT) was nothing more than a silly joke. Yet, thanks to you, we have since become one of the biggest university contests, amassing thousands of passionate competitors worldwide and building a community of almost fourty organizers here at MIT. Words fail to describe how honored I feel to be part of this initiative, so thank you once again to both the contestants and organizers for making this all of this possible. Without further ado, let's get down to buisness!
Statistics
In total, we had 1025 contestants participate in the M(IT)^2 2024 Spring Invitational. They come from 477 cities, 236 states, and 71 countries from around the world!
Furthermore, we welcomed contestants of all levels, from ICPC World Final winners to complete beginners! The skill breakdown is as follows:
- 113 contestants identify as IOI Medalists/USACO Finalists/Codeforces Legendary Grandmasters or equivalent.
- 360 contestants identify as having advanced competitive programming experience, such as those who are in the USACO Gold - Platinum division
- 342 contestants identify as having intermediate competitive programming experience, such as those who are in the USACO Bronze - Silver division
- 210 contestants have no prior competitive programming experience.
Tournament Achievements
- Our problems committee curated 10 high-quality problems for our contestants in the span of only 3 months — double the number of problems on an average Codeforces round (5-6 problems)! A big kudos to our problems team for working overtime to carefully prepare all of the problems.
- Thanks to our sponsors and our logistics committee, we raised enough funds to invite 18 Finalists to join us for the Finals Round in person, many of whom flew from across the ocean. Enjoying the schedule that we carefully curated.
- Our art committee delivered dozens of adorable designs, including our new floating Busy Beaver on the front page and our new Spring Invitational Exclusive Cherry-Blossom-themed shirt!
- Our web committee revamped our homepage with a completely new modern aesthetics, incorporating the iconic Spring Cherry Blossom into our designs.
Problem Details
We have uploaded our problems for upsolving on Codeforces gym! You can access them at the following links:
- Qualification Round: https://codeforces.com/gym/105125
- Finals Round: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/129342
If you get stuck, you can find our editorials here!
- Qualification Round: MITIT_2024_Spring_Qualification_Editorials.pdf
- Finals Round: MITIT_2024_Spring_Finals_Editorials.pdf
Winners and Standings
From complete beginners to seasoned competitors, we have them all. We are proud to annouce the final scoreboards as follows
Now for the part that everyone's been waiting for: this year's winners! (Please imagine drum roll effects)
The winners of the Qualification Round are:
- Mingyang Deng - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (500 points, 02:32:59)
- Kevin Sun - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (500 points, 03:00:24)
- Petr Mitrichev - Google (500 points, 03:25:1)
Furthermore, we would like to congratulate our 21 Finalists!
- Mingyang Deng - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (500 points, 02:32:59)
- Kevin Sun - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (500 points, 03:00:24)
- Antti Roeyskoe - ETH Zurich (500 points, 04:34:45)
- Andrew He - Cognition AI (500 points, 05:43:21)
- Andrew Gu - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (410 points, 03:49:13)
- Adam Gąsienica-Samek - XIV LO im. Stanisława Staszica (410 points, 03:54:55)
- YongHyun An - Samsung Electronics (410 points, 04:36:59)
- Matthew Allan - Canisius College High School (410 points, 05:31:07)
- Max Jiang - University of Waterloo (410 points, 06:03:26)
- Ziqian Zhong - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (400 points, 02:11:18)
- Gabriel Wu - Harvard University (400 points, 03:19:21)
- Austin Geng - Benjamin Franklin High School, New Orleans (400 points, 03:21:04)
- Yiming Li - Tsinghua University (400 points, 03:28:48)
- Huaiyu Wu - Amplitude (330 points, 01:44:33)
- Bing-Dong Liu - Irvington High School (330 points, 02:46:39)
- Linh Nguyen - Nuvo (330 points, 03:56:02)
- Alex Liang - Archbishop Mitty High School (330 points, 03:59:04)
- Raymond Kang - N/A (330 points, 04:09:36)
- Zerui Cheng - Princeton University ( 330 points, 04:19:27)
- Kelly Dance - Colorado School of Mines (330 points, 04:25:16)
- Jaehyun Koo - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (330 points, 04:49:52)
Last but certainly not least, (please imagine drum roll effects again), we would like to congratulate the official winners of the MIT Informatics Tournament 2024 Spring Invitational Finals Round!
- Kevin Sun - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (310 points, 05:41:21)
- Mingyang Deng - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (310 points, 06:12:08)
- Andrew He - Cognition AI (300 points, 05:18:46)
Closing Remarks
Congratulations again to all of our finalists and winners for their superb performance, and to everyone else for putting forth their best efforts 🤩! Finally, we would like to thank our sponsors for making our event possible. It takes a tremendous amount of resources to put up a large event like this (flights, venue, accommodations, etc.) and we really couldn't have done it without their support.
It's been an incredible journey since we've began less than a year ago. As we embark upon this ambitious endeavour, going over the first ever iterations of these kind of events, we acknowledge that things are far from perfect. If you have any feedback, please let us know by filling out the feedback form. It will be greatly appreciated! 🙏
Thank you all so much again for joining us, and we can't wait to see you again at our next event!
- M(IT)^2 Organizers ❤