teams from beijing, mipt and harbor space from barcelona. we had less penalty time, that is, we completed tasks faster and more confidently, due to which we were able to overtake other teams. the team from mipt also received a gold medal, but ended up lower in the overall ranking due to covid restrictions. the final of last season could not be held, so this year the results of icpc 2022 were summed up, here students of the higher school of economics also won gold. for us, this is no longer difficult, because if you probably count the number of times i’m in training, similar competitions i participated, i think, more than 100 times. time flies very quickly, and i didn’t even really notice how there was one hour left until the end of the competition, because all this time was busy with work. treating programming like a sport is a useful skill, coaches say. in essence, these competitions train universal specialists who will be able to quickly solve a problem of any complexity in the future, they are preparing. as athletes, we have a standar