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SUST is going to participate in the ICPC World Final for the 9th time. This is the most prestigious competition in the programming world and a thrilling battle of the brains where complex computational problems are solved using programs. Only the optimal solutions that meets the time and memory constraints and passes all the test cases gets accepted by the system. This challenge makes it even more exciting and a highly anticipated event throughout the programming community around the globe. 'SUST_GuessForces' has secured its qualification in the ICPC World Final 2024 achieving 2nd position in the ICPC Dhaka Site Regional and 3rd position in the ICPC Asia West Continent Final. Md Shajalal Sohag (MSc. 1st Year 2nd Semester student, CSE), Saikat Hosen (4th Year 2nd Semester student, CSE), Mozaddede Alfeh Sani (4th Year 2nd Semester student, CSE) are the contestants and A. K. M. Fakhrul Hossain (Lecturer, CSE) is the coach of the team. Among them, Md Shajalal Sohag and Saikat Hosen are two times world finalists and previously qualified in ICPC World Final 2021. Sohag has even gone further creating his 'YouKn0wWho Academy' (https://youkn0wwho.academy/) which helps elucidating programming topics to more than 1800 contestants throughout the country and thus creating a national impact in this field. Sohag and Rony both have qualified for the previous world finals in 2021. This team was mentored by Ovishek Paul (World Finalist 2019) and Fahim Tajwar Shaikat (World Finalist 2021). The world finalists are among the top 2% out of 73,083 talented students from 3,524 universities in 103 countries on 6 continents. Hundreds of hours of practice, hardwork, perseverance and dedication have helped them come up in this position. Dedicated competitive programming labs, regular training camps, good coding practice ecosystem in the university and patronising of the teachers and alumni have eased their path to the world final like the previous years and continuously created brilliant minds for the upcoming years. The team's journey is generously supprted by the department of CSE, alumni of CSE, a renowned software company, 'ShellBeeHaken' (https://shellbeehaken.com/) The ICPC World Final 2024 will take place on 19th September in Astana, Kazakhstan and this team will represent our country on a global platform along with two other teams from Dhaka University and Khulna University of Engineering and Technology. 3 teams from Bangladesh along with 10 IITs and 2 other Indian universities, 2 universities from Afghanistan and 2 universities from Iran are going to participate from the West Asia region in this world final.