The Microsoft Imagine Cup 2013 Turkey local finals took place on April 15, 2013 in Istanbul.
All the teams showed great initiative, efforts and innovation traits in their presentations the opportunity to win the title of the National Team and to go on to represent Turkey at the Worldwide Finals that will be held on 8 – 11 July 2013 in St.Petersburg, Russia, could only be won by one team.
The judges had a hard time choosing the top four teams of the day. They are as follows:
Fourth Place: Nebula
Serhat Özcan, Turan Utkan Özyürek, Özgür Can Keçecioğlu and Tolga Küçük from Hacettepe University
Third Place: Code Runners
Abdurrahman Yıldız, Hamdi Altınok, Sümeyra Tama, and Murat Karakuş from Dokuz Eylul University
Second Place: Engineers Without Fears
Elif Bektüzün, Mustafa Berat Karakuş, Rıdvan Caner Öncü and Yiğit Sermet Küçüköz from Yildiz Technical University
Winners:
The winning team was Space Fighters with their project Space Fight .
They aimed to create a new gaming experience by using different devices and different platforms in a nostalgic game working with actual technologies. This 2D Space Fight game has three different modes and has unique synchronization support between Windows Phone and Windows 8 platforms. In addition, it will have its own market for selling equipment such as various ships, weapons, even levels and stories to all players.
The team members are : Barış Çavuş a sophomore student from Middle East Technical University, Can Poyrazoğlu a senior student from Middle East Technical University, Doğukan Demir a senior student from Eastern Mediterranean University and team leader Tahsin Kasap also a senior student from Pamukkale University.
Many congratulations to the winning team for the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals in Russia!
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