The Northwestern Europe Regional Contest 2021 (NWERC), an official regional contest in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, took place as online event on November 20-21, 2021. Drawing students from all over Europe, inlcuding colleges and universities throughout Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, two teams of HPI students (both with connections to the Competitive Programming courses of the Algorithm Engineering group) successfully participated in this year's edition. While the full scoreboard can be found on the official page, we collect the placement of the two teams here:
- Team "Hexaflexagons" (21.): Sebastian Angrick, Niko Hastrich, Jonas Schmidt.
- Team "Hasso on Rails" (109.): Simon Cyrani, Abdullatif Ghajar, Romeo Sommerfeld.
The Algorithm Engineering group wishes to congratulate them on such an amazing ranking!
