International Math Olympiad 2015 results (USA beats China. Oh, and Africans are really stupid)

[Felix Volkbein]

I searched and apparently that RussiaPrussia guy didn't post the IMO results last month, so I'll post 'em now.

1) United States of America
2) People's Republic of China
3) Republic of Korea
4) Democratic People's Republic of Korea
5) Vietnam
6) Australia
7) Islamic Republic of Iran
8) Russian Federation
9) Canada
10) Singapore
11) Ukraine
12) Thailand
13) Romania
14) France
15) Croatia
16) Peru
17) Poland
18) Taiwan
19) Mexico
20) Hungary / Turkey
22) Brazil / Japan / United Kingdom
25) Kazakhstan
26) Armenia
27) Germany
28) Hong Kong
29) Bulgaria / Indonesia / Italy / Serbia
33) Bangladesh / Slovakia
35) Macau
36) Philippines
37) India
38) Republic of Moldova
39) Belarus
40) Israel
41) Saudi Arabia
42) Georgia
43) Bosnia and Herzegovina / Netherlands
45) Czech Republic / Mongolia / Switzerland
48) Azerbaijan
49) Colombia / New Zealand
51) Greece
52) Argentina / Portugal
54) Syria
55) South Africa
56) Belgium
57) Malaysia
58) Turkmenistan / Uzbekistan
60) Austria / Sweden
62) Algeria
63) Cyprus
64) Tajikistan
65) Lithuania / Norway
67) Costa Rica / Paraguay
69) Denmark
70) Estonia / Sri Lanka
72) Spain
73) Slovenia
74) The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
75) Iceland / Tunisia
77) Albania / Ireland
79) Latvia
80) Ecuador / Morocco
82) Finland / Nicaragua / Trinidad and Tobago
85) Pakistan
86) Cambodia / Kosovo
88) Nigeria
89) Montenegro
90) Liechtenstein / Puerto Rico
92) Kyrgyzstan
93) Uruguay
94) Cuba
95) El Salvador
96) Venezuela
97) Chile / Luxembourg
99) Panama
100) Uganda
101) Bolivia / Ghana
103) Botswana
104) Tanzania

https://www.imo-official.org/year_co...tal&order=desc

In case anyone is curious, the USA team this year included 3 White boys, 1 Indian boy, 1 Chinese boy, and 1 Chinese/Indian hybrid.



EDIT: For the benefit of those with reading comprehension difficulties, I repeat, the ethnic makeup of the USA this year was:

- 3 WHITE BOYS
- 1 CHINESE BOY
- 1 INDIAN BOY
- 1 CHINESE/INDIAN HYBRID

That's the entire team. There is a maximum of only 6 people per team. The photo Shah-Jehan posted below includes miscellaneous other people who were not members of the USA's team. He posted that photo because he is an idiot who did not do his research or even read this post thoroughly. There was no "Asian majority" on the USA team this year, not even if you lump Chinese and Indians together.



You can see the individual student results here:

https://www.imo-official.org/year_in...tal&order=desc

Here's a photo collage of the 39 Gold medalists this year. Is anyone missing from this line-up?

[Shah-Jehan]

This is the whole USA team



Edit: Nevermind, the official results say something else.

[SupaThug]

Your butthurtness against blacks is pathetic and it seems that you have complexes towards them!

[Felix Volkbein]

This is the whole USA team

There's only 6 people per team. I posted the entire USA team in the OP.

[Felix Volkbein]

Your butthurtness against blacks is pathetic and it seems that you have complexes towards them!

You're just angry niggers aren't smart enough to win a Gold medal, or even a Silver.

[SupaThug]

You're just angry niggers aren't smart enough to win a Gold medal, or even a Silver.

I am not angry at all...what bothers me is that you are always attacking blacks,ALWAYS,in the overhwhelming majority of comments you make.You are clearly complexed towards them!

[zhaoyun]

Good job team USA. I think this is the first time in three decades that China didn't get first place.

[Arcadefire]

Good job team USA. I think this is the first time in three decades that China didn't get first place.

lol may as well have been China. Look at the team. If the team comprised of mainly of a certain race, you and I both know it would have t been brought up

[Felix Volkbein]

lol may as well have been China. Look at the team. If the team comprised of mainly of a certain race, you and I both know it would have t been brought up

Well, only 1.5 members of the USA team this year are Chinese. On the hand, Team Canada is pretty much a de facto Chinese team.

[Felix Volkbein]

Good job team USA. I think this is the first time in three decades that China didn't get first place.

This is the first time since 1994 that the USA has taken first place. South Korea took first place in 2012. The Chinese response has been interesting:

For the first time in 20 years, China has lost a world math championship to the United States -- and many in the world's most populous nation seem happy about it.

The unexpected defeat came at the prestigious annual International Mathematical Olympiad, a championship Chinese high school students have won 18 times since 1990.

But to some, losing the Olympiad offers hope that painful, nightmarish years spent studying for the contest could finally be over.

"This is just wonderful that China finally lost the contest," one Chinese Internet user exclaimed on social network Weibo. "Hopefully the Math Olympiad won't scourge our children anymore! It has shattered so many kids' dreams!"

Parents chimed in as well.

"I can't care less whoever got the golden cup, as long as math Olympiad is not popularized in China and my child won't be forced to study it," said one mother.

Some users offered a more sarcastic lament.

"Uh oh, the U.S. now defeats China in exams. Isn't our exam-oriented education supposed to be superior?"

Unlike many American students, ordinary Chinese pupils are no strangers to the difficult math completion. Students often start getting math Olympiad training in elementary school. The demand for the training is so high that classes and schools have popped up in every corner of the country.

And it's not necessarily because they love math. The motivation is rather pragmatic -- winners of math Olympiads have long received bonus points in school entrance exams, high-stakes tests where a small score difference can dramatically alter a student's future.

So the math competitions become another bitter pill to swallow along the cutthroat road to success.

One Chinese commentator, Wei Wei, compared math Olympiads to "gutter oil," a reference to an infamous type of distilled sewage used by some restaurants to cut costs.

"It makes people uneasy while eating it, and feel disgusted thinking of it, yet they still fight for it because it's profitable," he wrote recently on Hong Kong-based news site ifeng.com.

In the last year, some provinces have taken steps to eliminate the bonus point policy, as educators wonder whether the math Olympiads are actually serving the right purpose.

"The question we should ask is why we don't have great mathematicians in China," he said.

Then, appearing to answer his own question:

"Not many of our math champions continued to study math -- many left academia for Wall Street."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/05/china/...math-olympiad/