Congratulations to
Team Persistence
Akie Mejia
Kendrick Saavedra
Michael Tan
for ranking 14th out of 82 and being named BEST PHILIPPINE TEAM in the ACM ICPC! 

Team TheBig3
Neill Li
Jan Vincent Liwanag
Jason Salvador
for scoring three points

Team NPtoP
Wilhansen Li
Richard Locsin
John Patrick Manalo

and Team Team168
Diana Gonzales
Kristina Lim
John Mandapat
for scoring one point each

And to Team FauraBoys
Rocky Camacho
Jejomar Dimayuga
Louie Manay

and Team <EOP>
Ivan Caw
Debbie Manay
Jarrell Mallari
for their valiant efforts!

Overall, we did ok. The reality is (and I've said this to the teams) that we did not do as well as we had hoped but we did not do as badly as we had feared.  I had hoped but not expected that we'd make it again to the World Finals.  I had really hoped we'd rank in 10 at least.  I had expected that we'd be the top Philippine team.  So, we realized one out of three hopes.

Contending for the top Philippine spot were Persistence, one DLSU team, and one UP Diliman team.  In the end, they all scored four points.  DLSU came in at 15th place. UPD came in at 16th.  We beat DLSU by a margin of 12 minutes. DLSU beat UPD by something like 22 minutes.  These margins are too close for comfort.

So here's the wake-up call: If Ateneo wants to remain on top, we have to work much, much harder.  The other local universities are already nipping at our heels and if we relax now we're going to slip behind.