The course looks really interesting to be frank. I've recommended it to my college's competitive programming team actually!
ITMO did not get 1st place this year because the team changed, and I believe tourist graduated. Last year [1] for example they solved all 13 problems, while the 2nd team solved 11; there simply was no competition.
7th is still an excellent result. Let's see what they do next year!
[1] https://www.edx.org/course/how-win-coding-competitions-secre...