Five people, five 5th placers... Brightest minds of Turkiye with one mutual dream: representing their country at IOI. Countless hours spent coding, debugging and studying towards their goal. But little did they know, they were cursed. All of them came very close to getting into the team, closest you can get to it actually but the 5th place curse would not let it happen.
What does this curse do? Well every IOI team has 4 participants in it, each of them finishing in the top 4 in their country's team selection. When you finish in 5th place, its a very heartbreaking situation but unless its your last year, its actually not so bad because you have great chances for next year. The thing with this curse is, it selects a person with more years to go and makes them finish 5th in the team selection, and then never let them actually achieve it. The whole timeline of the curse is in erkam's blog.
