They were head and shoulders taller!

"This time there were five or seven very strong teams here, so the victory was akin to winning the lottery - it was decided by tenths of a point," says a professor at the Department of Power Supply and Electrical Engineering at the Institute of Energy of IRNTU Konstantin Suslov. – The competition between the leading universities was very high. Besides, it is clear that we would not have been given the first place for the second time in a row." 

"When, after reaching the finals, they wrote an article about us in the student newspaper, I was against the provocative application that was made in it: we allegedly said that we would bring victory from Moscow," recalls the master of the Department of Management and Logistics in Transport at the Institute of Aircraft Engineering and Transport of IRNTU Ekaterina Piskovets. "But deep down there was a certainty that we would win."

The team's triumph can by no means be explained by chance – it is not for nothing that it deserved to win the championship final, beating competitors from leading specialized universities in Russia. "When the guys were performing, I specifically went to listen to them: they were head and shoulders above everyone else," he states. The wort. – Then I talked with the experts from the jury, who recognized: "First place without talking at all." 

Team «The center of the earth» IrNITA

A source: http://www.vsp.ru/social/2016/06/14/563483