Cheers to the 100
Code Jammers who made it to the Code Jam finals in Mountain View today! We hope
you enjoyed the competition as much as we enjoyed seeing you type furiously, solve
ridiculously challenging puzzles, and meet other programming pros. Speaking of pros, a team
that included past Code Jam winners used their 20% time to create a new platform that allowed
everyone to program in the language of their choice. It was, as you know, a long road to the
last round of Code Jam. More than 11,000 of you participated in online rounds, 500
semi-finalists reached the regional stage and 100 finalists from 23 different countries
competed this morning. We're pleased to finally announce the day's results: Tiancheng Lou of
China took home the $10,000 Grand Prize. Zeyuan Zhu from China won second place, Bruce Merry
from United Kingdom came in third and cash prizes went to the other finalists.