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But tiny countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, Romania, and Hungary can?

Nonsense, plenty of Indians know about the IMO. Here is a Quora post written by an Indian remarking on the consistently mediocre IMO performance of India: As I said, over 1 billion people and they can't find 6 students talented enough to dominate the IMO? We are told over and over again how...

The point spreads for countries ranked between #15 and 30 are usually pretty tight. Look at the large number of ties for countries between 20 and 30 this year. The differences in overall performance for teams in that range are often quite minor. For a competition like this, placing anywhere in...

There was a very tricky Problem 5 this year which upset some of the usual rankings. One kid from the North Korean team didn't win any medal, only an Honorable Mention. I hope nothing bad happens to him once he returns home.

#1 People's Republic of China #2 United States of America #3 Taiwan #4 Russian Federation #5 Japan #6 Ukraine #7 Republic of Korea #8 Singapore #9 Canada #10 Vietnam #11 Australia / Romania #13 Netherlands #14 Democratic People's Republic of Korea #15 Hungary #16 Germany #17 Turkey #18 Hong Kong...