We’re excited to share that the Universal Cup Summer Summit 2024, sponsored by Huawei, just wrapped up in the beautiful Cancun, Mexico!

The highlight of the event was the 2nd Universal Cup Semifinal, where 200 teams competed both onsite and online.

A huge shoutout to all our onsite teams:

Gold Medal

• USA1 (ecnerwala, ksun48, tourist)

Silver Medal

• Polish Mafia (Swistakk, Radewoosh, Marcin_smu)

Bronze Medal

• HoMaMaOvO (maroonrk, maspy, hos.lyric)

Honourable Mention

• 03 Slimes (orzdevinwang, Rewinding, TLE)
• Amstelpark (PavelKunyavskiy, cdkrot, LHiC)
• Let it Rot (skip2004, p_b_p_b, Warriors_fsy)
• Almost Retired Dandelion (Um_nik, Merkurev, KAN)
• yosupo (yosupo, sigma425, sugim48)
• Speed Star (YoshikaMiyafuji, noimi)
• Yolki-palki (Pechalka, Kapt, Tikhon228)
• Mei Dui Yao (PubabaOnO, froggyzhang)

And our top ten online teams:

Online Champions

• UT a.k.a Is (yutaka1999, yokozuna57, HIR180)

First Prize (places 2-3)

• 飞带长队 (275307894a, A_zjzj, crazy_sea)
• 哈姆？哈姆！ (njwrz, qiuzx, sjcsjcsjc)

Second Prize (places 4-10)

• tritr (tute7627, asdsasd, SPD_9X2)
• japan406364961 (kotatsugame, Nyaan, risujiroh)
• Dvoe protiv vetra (Egor, pashka, qwerty787788)
• TEMP team name (liuhengxi)
• open your brain (aaaaawa, wygzgyw, Blood_Wu_Ren)
• 我再也不会笑了 (IceYukino, pp_orange, flying)
• Nemesis (-14, Imakf, zhangjianjuncd)

You can check out the full results here: https://contest.ucup.ac/contest/1708/standings

If you are interested in the solutions of the problems and stories behind the problem setting: We are going to release a post-contest analysis report soon! We will post it after we finish it.

We also invite you to watch the streams from the semifinal:

• English stream
• Chinese stream

For more info about the Universal Cup and how to join the fun, visit our website at https://ucup.ac/. If you’re interested in participating this season, head over to the Registration page.

Thanks to everyone who joined us and made this event amazing! In particular, huge thanks to all the organizers:

• chenjb
• Qingyu
• xiaowuc1
• lperovskaya
• PavelKunyavskiy
• Dup4
• and kostka :)

Finally here are some pics with the spectacular Semifinal Champions:

See you next time!