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Posted by Jeff Huber, VP
Engineering

Last year we thought we href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/will-code-for-fun-and-money.html" >
hit it big when 7,500 software coders from all over competed
for top prizes in our annual href="http://www.google.com/codejam/" >Google Code Jam. We
didn't know what "big" was until this year's
competition, which concluded today. Not 7,500, not 10,000, but
14,500 programmers hailing from Belarus and China, Venezuela and
Sweden, Macedonia and Spain - among plenty of other places, 32
countries in all - limbered up and got coding in the multi-round
programming competition.

The field narrowed over successive rounds since August 22, and
today we hosted 100 finalists in a href="http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/codejamwinners_2005.html" >
final showdown at the Googleplex for more than $150,000 in
prizes.

Now that the dust has cleared, our second and third place winners,
each of whom receives $5000, are Erik-Jan Krijgsman of the
Netherlands, and Petr Mitrichev from Russia. And the grand prize of
$10,000 goes to Marek Cygan from Poland, who is a student at Warsaw
University.

We were amazed by the talent and energy we've seen here.
Congrats to Marek, Erik-Jan, Petr and all the Google Code Jam
participants. We're already looking forward to next time.

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