Ukrainian Physicists' Tournament for University Students (Ukrainian: Всеукраїнський студентський турнір фізиків, commonly abbreviated as СТФ) is a creative team competition of university students targeted to realize their potential through solving complicated scientific problems and defending their research projects in a scientific discussion, called Physics Fight.
The problems are known in a long time before the competition, are fully original and are proposed by the Organizing Committee after open selection and discussion.
The first Open Physicists' Tournament for University Students was held in Odesa in October 2001.
Generally, solving these problems includes conducting experiments, constructing theoretical models, literature analysis.
Then the teams come together for the final stage of the tournament, and present their solutions in the format of Physics Fights.
Jurors ask clarifying questions to the reporter, the opponent and the reviewer, and put marks for their work.
(For a small number of participants a different scheme of the tournament is possible, without semi-final, with tree top-rated teams after selective fights passing directly to the final.)