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Chapter 620 - 372 Foreigners Do Not Have Martial Morals (Please Subscribe)_2

Chapter 620: Chapter 372 Foreigners Do Not Have Martial Morals (Please Subscribe)_2

The "Old Chen" mentioned by Professor Liu is Professor Chen, the person in charge of the Haicheng University of Transportation’s competition team this time.

"Alright, thank you, Professor Liu."

After hanging up the call, Xu Bin took a deep breath and then looked at Ding Yue, "Yue, luckily you kept calm and saw through their tricks, otherwise our three universities in Xia Country really would have fallen into a morass tonight."

Ding Yue just smiled faintly, then reached out and patted Xu Bin’s shoulder, "Bin, your task, you three, is to rest well. Everything should be focused on tomorrow’s ACM competition, you don’t need to be affected by other factors."

"Okay." Xu Bin nodded, then said to Chen Jun and Ouyang Chen: "Chen Jun, Ouyang Chen, you two go back to rest immediately, don’t think about anything, just get a good sleep!"

"Understood!"

Chen Jun and Ouyang Chen responded, then left Principal Ding’s room and returned to their room to sleep.

On Professor Liu’s side at Northwestern University of Science and Technology, they also notified Haicheng University of Transportation in time, asking them to stop cracking the University of Pennsylvania’s program and explained the reason.

The people at Haicheng University of Transportation have bad tempers, and when they found out that the Americans were so wickedly cunning, they angrily criticized the University of Pennsylvania’s competition team for being unsporting on domestic social media platforms!

Netizens in our country showed support for the three domestic universities participating in the competition when they saw the post from Haicheng University of Transportation, and called the American’s tactics disgusting and unsporting!

However, since the Weibo of Haicheng University of Transportation didn’t have much heat, the incident only caused a small splash on domestic social media platforms without trending much.

That night in Zurich, Switzerland, Ding Yue slept quite well.

The next morning, when Ding Yue woke up, his secretary Wen Ruohan came to invite him to have breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

"Xiao Wen, get everyone here." Ding Yue planned to have breakfast with everyone and then get ready to head to the ACM competition ahead of time.

"Principal Ding, everyone has been called."

Wen Ruohan answered.

"Okay."

About five minutes later, Ding Yue changed his clothes and then went to the hotel restaurant with Wen Ruohan.

Interestingly, when having breakfast in the hotel restaurant, Ding Yue also encountered a university’s ACM competition team.

They are the competition team from the Nanyang Technological University.

Nanyang Technological University also ranks very high internationally, and most importantly, Ding Yue’s Mist City Arts and Science University has cooperated with Nanyang Technological University.

That’s right!

The set of energy chemistry research equipment that Ding Yue’s sister Ding Xiaoyou is using now, was purchased from Nanyang Technological University.

In this regard, Nanyang Technological University is indeed the world leader.

It was unexpected that they also met the competition team from Nanyang Technological University at breakfast in the same hotel in Zurich.

Ding Yue had a brief chat with the team leader from the Nanyang Technological University, the latter remembered Ding Yue’s identity and immediately thought of the equipment order worth more than 100 million which caused a minor sensation at Nanyang Technological University.

"Principal Ding, the actions of the University of Pennsylvania against the participating universities from your country are indeed ungentlemanly."

Professor Sun from the Nanyang Technological University competition team said to Ding Yue.

"Forget it, they are not ungentlemanly, they are not gentlemen at all." Ding Yue replied.

Nanyang Technological University is located in Singapore, where a majority are of Chinese descent. Luckily, Professor Sun is also of Chinese descent and is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University, making it convenient to communicate with Ding Yue.

Because they all speak the same language.

After breakfast, before Ding Yue and the others from Nanyang Technological University left, he naturally gave them a graceful farewell wish: "Professor Sun, see you on the competition field later, I hope your competition team can achieve good results."

"Great, Principal Ding, best wishes to your school as well, keep up the good work!"

After leaving the hotel, Principal Ding and his party took the hotel’s special car to the venue of the ACM International College Student Programming Competition.

The venue was at a sports center, which had begun preparations for the ACM competition several days prior.

The related competition committees and sponsors were all ready to welcome the participating teams from the world’s top universities majoring in computer science.

Among all participating universities, Mist City Arts and Science University was undoubtedly the most controversial.

Some foreigners who pay close attention to Xia Country’s universities claimed that they had never heard of this university participating in any major computer science competition before, or achieving anything in this field.

Among the three schools participating from Xia Country, Haicheng University of Transportation was undoubtedly the most prestigious.

After all, Haicheng University of Transportation had won the championship in a previous ACM competition and was internationally recognized as having the most powerful computer science department among domestic universities.

As for the Northwestern University of Science and Technology, they had some recognition but not much. Foreigners felt that this university might have been given a chance to participate for some reason.

The most controversial, however, was still Mist City Arts and Science University.

Many foreigners only learned right before the competition that Mist City Arts and Science University is a privately-run university in Xia Country.

The foreigners’ perception of "privately-run universities" was actually different from those in their country. Many of the top universities in the world were private entities, so Mist City Arts and Science University became a "dark horse" in the eyes of foreigners for a time.

Inside the rest area for the Xia Country teams at the ACM competition venue, after arriving, Ding Yue had his secretary Wen Ruohan take care of all the "needs" of Xu Bin, Chen Jun, and Ouyang Chen going forward.

Serving tea and water was the most basic. Now, the trio of Xu Bin needed to focus all their energy on the upcoming competition.

The ACM competition rules were different from those of typical matches.

The competition stipulated that each team could have at most three enrolled college students. They needed to solve eight or more complex real-world programming problems within a five-hour limit. Specific competition rules also included each team using one computer. Contestants needed to race against time, competing against each other in logic, strategy, and mental quality.

Yes!

All qualifying teams from around the world would be competing against the clock within these five hours.

Whichever team could solve the problems set by the committee, such as program coding, faster and better, would be the champion of this ACM International College Student Programming Competition!

The top ten teams in the ACM International College Student Programming Competition finals will receive a scholarship: the first prize is 100,000 US dollars, the second prize is 50,000 US dollars, the third prize is 20,000 US dollars, and the fourth to tenth prizes will each receive 10,000 US dollars.

In addition, the championships in North America, Europe, South Pacific, and Asia will also be recognized.

Of course, these four championships don’t hold as much weight as the overall championship!

In terms of prize money, Ding Yue didn’t think it was a lot.

The first prize was only 100,000 USD. What Ding Yue valued was not the prize money, but the honor and impact of the ACM competition.

If Xu Bin could represent Mist City Arts and Science University and win this global championship of the ACM competition, then in the field of computer science, Mist City Arts and Science University would become famous overnight.

And it would be a leap, from obscurity, to becoming internationally recognized in computer science.

"Bin, this ACM competition is very important for us at Mist City Arts and Science University. Other colleges have computer science departments that are renowned worldwide, while we are more like newcomers, needing to make our mark through this ACM competition!"

Ding Yue said profoundly to Xu Bin.

Of course, Xu Bin understood his good friend’s meaning and immediately nodded: "Yue, don’t worry, I can’t say for sure that I can claim this championship, but I’ll do my best!"

The participating universities this time are basically the top ones globally, and even with all his confidence, Xu Bin couldn’t make a claim of completely outperforming everyone else.

"Principal Ding, we will also do our utmost to assist Director Xu!" The eyes of Chen Jun and Ouyang Chen, the two students, were also full of fighting spirit!