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The twelfth edition if the national Bulgarian private programming contest organized by Musala Soft and PC Magazine Bulgaria finished successfully on May 2nd 2007     (българска версия)  

Sofia, 02.05.2007

The 12th edition of the most prestigious national Bulgarian private programming contest, organized by Musala Soft and PC Magazine Bulgaria ended on 2nd May. This year’s competition closed as traditionally with holding the final round, bestowing awards to the winners and a cocktail after the press conference.

99 programmers from all over the country took part in the 6 non-present rounds of the contest but only the best 12 went to the final round. For a third consecutive year hostess of the competition was the Bulgarian-Korean Internet Center in Sofia.

Vladimir Nedev, student at the Sofia University, became the winner. The big price – computer was bestowed to him by Stanislava Lilova, Program Coordinator – American Foundation for Bulgaria. The second place took Boris Daskalov, who won Visual Studio 2005 from Microsoft and Wireless Router from Comel Soft Multimedia. The 17’ LCD monitor provided by TechVision and assigned to the third place, was for Rostislav Rumenov. The other participants had attractive awards, kindly provided by the sponsors ASBIS, BMG, Brainware, CNSys, Eurodesign, Infodar, Lexmarx, Logitech and Sirma Media and diplomas given by the organizers.

The awards were bestowed in the Press Club of the Bulgarian News Agency. The event was attended by representatives of the media and the organizations (both governmental and private institutions), which support the contest at its all stages, as well as special guests and sponsors.

During the event professor Krasimir Manev from the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at Sofia University, a trainer for many years of the Bulgarian national teams of Informatics and honorable jury of the programming contest, greeted the participants for their success and gave brief overview of their achievements at national and international level in different programming competitions.

“We are developing in a positive direction and I truly believe that we’ll keep the trend. We are supporting and providing possibilities for the Bulgarian talents in the field of programming to challenge people like themselves and improve their skills. This year there was stronger interest by the IT sector – both governmental and private and that is an optimistic sign that more people are getting involved and highly estimate the initiative of the contest.” - stated Elena Marinova, President of Musala Soft.

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