French Chemists' Tournament 2023: Proud of the Fds team

_{The team from Montpellier University's Faculty of Science finished joint ^5th with ENS Ulm in the^{3rd edition}of the Tournoi Français des Chimistes held at École Polytechnique on March 24 and 25, 2023. Congratulations to our Master 1 Chemistry students and their coaches from the Chemistry department!}

Well done to our 8 students, Yoan Bietry, Chelsio Camilo, Julia Duplessis-Kergomard, Arthur Guerin, Alexandre Koulechoff, Agate Levron, Lola Miénné Abbou, and Narjis Ouazanni.  

Well done to their coaches, Sébastien Clément, Sylvain Catrouillet, David Egron, Jean-Sébastien Filhol, Claude Niebel, Saad Sene and Jean-Yves Winum, who prepared them for the tournament.

They all wore the colors of the University of Montpellier and their component loud and clear. 

The 2023 edition brought together nine top-level teams from nine different institutions: École Polytechnique, École Normale Supérieure (ENS) Ulm, ENS Lyon, ENS Paris-Saclay, Chimie ParisTech, Université de Montpellier, ESPCI-Université de Sherbrooke, Université Paris-Cité and Sorbonne Université.

Our students performed extremely well, coming in fifth place, just behind Ecole Polytechnique (just a few points behind), tied with ENS Ulm, and ahead of Sorbonne Université, Chimie ParisTech and Université Paris-Cité.

Special mention goes to Arthur, who won one of the prizes for best speaker, and to Yoan, who won one of the prizes for best opponent. The team was also awarded the "Priming" prize, corresponding to the test at the start of the meeting which consists of finding the closest value to a question of advanced scientific calculation.

See you in March 2024 for the^4th edition of TFChim in Lyon! (https://www.tfchim.fr)