Thursday, May 15, 2008
Introduction by ivern

Discuss this competition

Pops is the new Component Design Champion!

This year's component project was part of a combined effort between the Components and Studio tracks to build a small visual application within the timeframe of the TCO finals. This application displays TopCoder members that are "related" to a specified member through one or more of a variety of metrics, and places these members on the screen at a distance from the original member inversely proportional to how "related" they are. The sample application allows the user to specify geographical location, rating, and TopCoder match overlap as metrics for the visualization.

The Components tracks were responsible for building the business logic for calculating distances between members as a component. TopCoder provided the component competitors with sample member data, as well as a data access layer with a reference implementation to read the sample data.

The overall winner of the design competition, which took place on Monday and lasted six hours, was Pops with a Java submission. Wendell submitted the top .NET solution and both of their designs became inputs to the development competition, which ran on Wednesday and lasted eight and a half hours. After reviews were done, romanoTC emerged as the overall development winner.

Congratulations to the winners, and a special thanks to adic, Ghostar, nhzp339, aksonov, TheCois, and cnettel for delivering a true reviewing tour de force this week.

Component Design Competition Final Scores

		Review Board
Competitor	Rating	adic	Ghostar	nhzp339	Link	Total
Pops	2572	87.25	89.31	90.78		89.11
Luca	1502	87.06	89.09	88.59		88.25
ShindouHikaru	1582	86.16	85.97	90.34		87.49
Wendell	2152	81.53	81.97	86.91		83.47
dmks	1602	77.53	81.28	84.56		81.12
fabrizyo	1406	82.28	75.28	79.69		79.08
kyky	2788	77.38	79.41	74.84		77.21
argolite	1265	75.44	74.56	80.56		76.85
AleaActaEst	1304	76.56	75.94	78.03		76.84
tushak	1687	75.72	76.59	78.16		76.82