Olympia 2024 Champion Vo Quang Phu Duc – Photo: NGUYEN BAO
The final match of the 24th Road to Olympia ended with the dramatic victory of Vo Quang Phu Duc (Math student, Quoc Hoc High School for the Gifted, Thua Thien Hue province). Phu Duc won 220 points, 5 points more than the runner-up.
"Win the bell" strategy
Sharing with Tuoi Tre Online , Phu Duc said that his bravery and smart tactics were the two secrets that helped him win and earn the laurel wreath.
“Toughness is maintaining form and mentality in the most important moments. Intelligence is calculating tactics at a very important moment. In important moments, people often have many emotions, and can make wrong calculations. This is something I feel quite successful in controlling well,” Duc shared.
Thanks to his stable mentality and spirit right from the start, Duc answered all 6 questions correctly in the individual round, the warm-up part. After that, he continued to gain more points in two questions in the general round. At the end of this round, Duc took the lead with 75 points.
Regarding the specific strategy, according to Duc, it is the “bell-taking”. In this, Duc chooses the safe option, not ringing the bell to take the right to answer from the “finish” package of the other contestants if he is not sure. This helps Duc preserve the current score.
“Before the last question, Nguyen Phu and I were 20 points apart. The strategy here is to fight for the answer, if the answer is correct then there is nothing to discuss, but if the answer is wrong then only 15 points will be lost. That is a strategy I experienced in the third quarter exam,” Duc added.
When winning the bell, in the studio Phu Duc shouted loudly to celebrate, in the cheers of the studio audience and Ngo Mon Square, Hue.
However, in the final answer of this contest, Duc also gave an incorrect answer. “I clicked the answer to this question as 34.12%, but the answer is incorrect. I sincerely apologize to the math community,” Duc added.
Phu Duc (middle) with teachers - Photo: NGUYEN BAO
Proud of this achievement after a year of hard work
The Olympia champion said he wanted this laurel wreath to be dedicated to his late grandmother. Before she passed away last year, her dream was to see Duc compete in the Olympia on the S24 set.
“I went beyond that. That is something I really appreciate and this is my best match ever. I am proud of this achievement after a year of hard work,” Duc said.
The male student from Thua Thien Hue added that his favorite part of the test was overcoming obstacles because he handled this obstacle quite quickly when the first question had just ended, without any hints.
Duc emphasized that he kept a relaxed and calculated mindset, thinking about things related to 2050, the year the answer mentioned.
“Net Zero is a very popular term, and young people are talking about it a lot these days. At the same time, Net Zero is also the goal that Vietnam is aiming for to have zero net emissions by 2050. That is why I respect this term,” the male student added. It was thanks to this “daring” that helped Duc get an additional 80 points.
When asked about regrets in today's final match, Duc said that the regret question was the last question of his finishing line and if he had kept the first answer, maybe everything would have been different but the match would have lost its appeal.
“When I answered the question “Storm Tree”, I turned around and saw Trung Kien starting to ring the bell. I was so agitated that I changed the answer to “Storm Tree”. It was a pity because I couldn’t have ended the match sooner,” Duc said.
The male student added that after winning this contest, his life will definitely change, but he is not sure exactly how, and hopes to have some time to rest before thinking about what to do next.
Regarding his future plans, the male student majoring in Quoc Hoc also said he has not decided to study abroad, but if he studies in Vietnam, he plans to study artificial intelligence (AI).
Phu Duc is the 7th student of the school to enter the Olympia finals and the 3rd to win the laurel wreath. Before him, the two laurel wreath winners were Ho Ngoc Han in 2009 and Ho Dac Thanh Chuong in 2016.
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