Post date: Oct 15, 2010 10:43:23 AM
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- TopCoder®, Inc., the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development platforms, today announced that Michael Paweska of Toronto, Canada, is the Design Competition Champion of the 2010 TopCoder Open (TCO), the world's foremost competitive computer programming and creative design tournament.
Know by his TopCoder Community handle 'argolite', Paweska faced top rated programmers from Ukraine,Indonesia, Italy, Romania, India China, and the Russian Federation, and earned $20,000 first prize for his win in a design competition that required greater time than previous championship design competitions.
"This year's TCO format was very favorable to the way I operate – this was a true marathon of a design competition," said Paweska. "The really cool thing is to see all the new talent here. It bodes well for the kind of quality competitions we can expect in the future."
Michael Paweska is one of the most successful TopCoder members of all time having earned nearly $1 million in winnings during his eight years of TopCoder participation. Paweska's brother Piotr Paweska akaAleaActEst, of Canada, was also a finalist in the competition.
The event took place October 11th -14th at the MGM Mirage in Las Vegas as 82 top performers from around the world competed across multiple tracks for a share of $150,000 in prizes. More details are available at http://www.topcoder.com/tco10
The 2010 TopCoder Open was supported in part by sponsors Yandex, Facebook and PayPal as well as patron NSA.
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