The best rank ever achieved by an Indian team at the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) was rank 18 in 2012 by 2 teams from IIT-Delhi and IIIT-Hyderabad. IIIT-H also managed to send teams to the prestigious ACM-ICPC World Finals for 7 years in a row at one point. ICPC is something you cannot not hear about as a student in IIIT, and understandably so. The college has had a rich past of teams qualifying for and posting admirable performances at the ICPC World Finals. We proudly present to you, our Hall of Fame :)
IIIT’s ICPC run over the years
2020-21 - Holy Trinity
The coronavirus pandemic had changed a lot of things. The regionals happened online and saw a wide range of teams taking the top spots. And the Asia-west Finals was cancelled. Team Holy Trinity finished #4 at the online Amritapuri regional, and qualified for World Finals 2021.
Team
- Gaurav Sultane
- Arnav Juneja
- Sayantan Jana
2019-20 - tesla_protocol
tesla_protocol from IIIT-H faced a rocky set of regional rounds where they ranked #6 in the Amritapuri regional and #4 in the Kanpur regional, thus qualifying for Asia-west. Asia-West did not start off smoothly either. At around 1.5 hours into the contest, they only had 3 solves. To give context, the top team had 6. But despite the insurmountable odds they faced, they pulled off an incredible comeback to solve a total of 9 problems by the end and finished 7th. Excluding the teams that had qualified directly via regionals, they comfortably came in third in slots at Asia-West.
tesla_protocol started the WF strong holding the #1 rank in all of Asia West (#17 global) for the first half of the contest and ended the contest with a global rank of #46
Team
- Anurudh Peduri
- Devansh Gautam
- Arjun P
Ping! ICPC Chronicles - tesla_protocol (Interview)
2017-18 - TooWeakTooSlow
Team TooWeakTooSlow solved 7 problems out of the 11 in Amritapuri and 10 out of the 11 in Asia Chennai. And by doing so, they won not one, but both the regional sites they participated in (#1). They were the only team to solve 10 in the AC regional, with the second and third teams coming in at 9 solves each. They also ranked #2 in the common online round.
Following their dominant performance in the regional, TooWeakTooSlow went on to secure a global rank of #31 in the World Finals, and were the best performing team from India in that year’s ICPC.
Team
- Tanuj Khattar
- Rajas Vanjape
- C. G. Vedant
2016-17 - mobius_treap
Team mobius_treap from IIIT-H ranked #2 in both the Amritapuri and Asia Chennai regionals. This was after their #2 finish in the common online round. After their podium finishes in both the regionals they went to secure the #1 spot in the Asia India-FINAL contest and reserved their spot in the World Finals where they finished #56.
Team
- Tanuj Khattar
- Rajas Vanjape
- Sriram Narayanan
2014-15 - Believe
Team Believe from IIIT-H, after winning the Gwalior online round, went on to also secure the #1 spot in the Gwalior regionals. They also had a podium finish in the Amritapuri regionals (#3), following a rank #5 finish in the Amritapuri online round. The regional win gave them a spot in the World Finals where they received a Honorable Mention.
This was also, the 7th consecutive year in which IIIT-Hyderabad had qualified for the ICPC World Finals!
Team
- Karan Aggarwal
- Pulkit Goel
- Vivek Hamirwasia
2013-14 - Illusion
Illusion from IIIT-H, following a #1 finish in the online round went on to win both the Amritapuri and Kharagpur regionals. After their dominant win at 2 major regional sites, they went on to secure a rank of #45 in the ICPC World Final.
It is also worth mentioning that team TheHeuristics (Lalit Kundu, Akshay Jaggi, Karan Aggarwal) also finished with a WF qualifying rank. However, because Illusion outperformed them at both sites and only one team per college get to go to the final, it was Illusion who went through to the WFs.
Team
- Smit Hinsu
- Nishant Krishan
- Pulkit Goel
2012-13 - effort_infinite
effort_infinite from IIIT-H ranked #1 at the Kharagpur regional and secured their spot in the World Finals. At the world final, they received a Honorable Mention.
Team
- Paresh Verma
- Kaushik Iska
- Kaushik MV
2011-12 - TuringMachine
TuringMachine from IIIT, set the record for the best ever performance by an Indian team in the history of the ACM ICPC and this record holds till date. After making it through the regional rounds the team went on to secure a global rank of #18 at the 2012 ACM-ICPC World Finals, making history.
Team
- Anish Shankar
- Kunal Jain
- Nadeem Moidu
2010-11 - ANY Dream
IIIT was the only Indian college which had managed to post not one, but two teams which had managed to qualify for the WFs. The highest global rank secured was #42 at the WF and they were the top Indian team at 2011 World Finals.
Team
- Anish Shankar
- Nadeem Moidu
- Yash Kumar
2009-10 - TheKingsGambit
Once again, a team from IIIT qualified for the ICPC World Finals and they again posted the best performance by an Indian team at the WFs where they secured a global rank of #36.
Team
- Anshuman Singh
- Gaurav Agarwal
- Rajat Goel
2008-09 - The King’s Gambit
This was the beginning of IIIT-H’s 7 consecutive year streak of qualifying for the World Finals. The team from IIIT-H was the best performing Indian team at the World Final and received a Honorable Mention for securing a world 54th position.
Team
- Ajay Somani
- Anshuman Singh
- Gaurav Agarwaal