Most of them were my students! I’m so proud of everyone. <grin>
I think Great Things are possible.

More news from Mike Gonzalez:

Miguel’s team was only slightly slightly behind the winners. And the
sample output was simply wrong on one of the problems that they
solved, so it caused a few wrong submissions and enough penalty points
to kick them into 2nd place. I think they’re contesting that to see if
they can do anything about it… in any case, the organizers told them
they have a good chance at being a wildcard team to be sent to the
world finals in Shanghain in April. :)

Hey, at one point Miguel’s team was the only team with four problems
solved, my team was the only team with three problems solved, and all
the other teams had two problems or less. Doc Mana must have been
thrilled. ;p

That’s out of the 80+ teams at the Manila site! Me and Miguel’s team
are the 1st and 2nd best Filipino teams, respectively.

Thanks for everything you taught us in CS139.3 last sem, you were a
great help. And thanks for the congratulations, we couldn’t be more
proud. :)

Hope you’re doing well in Japan! Take care, Sacha. :)

Let me just say that we owe Doc Mana _so_ much. Heh. Father of
competitive computing in Ateneo. ;)

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