THE LEGACY
LIVES ON
Relive the most intense 24 hours in competitive programming. 5,476 coders. 112 nations. One scoreboard. One champion.
HALL OF CHAMPIONS
The elite teams that rose above 5,400+ competitors across 112 countries.
ByteForce
🇪🇸 Spain
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Null Pointer
🇺🇸 USA
MIT
Segfault Society
🇮🇳 India
IIT Bombay
24-HOUR CHRONICLE
Gates Open
Problem set released globally. Teams from 112 countries dive in simultaneously.
First Blood
ByteForce (Spain) solves Problem A in under 3 minutes. A record-breaking early strike.
Mid-Race Surge
Leaderboard reshuffles as Asian teams dominate graph theory challenges P-07 through P-12.
The Twist
Problem P-20 (Quantum Circuit Optimization) catches top teams off-guard. Only 4 solve it.
Final Sprint
Null Pointer surges from 5th to 2nd place. ByteForce holds their lead under enormous pressure.
Horns Sound
Competition ends. ByteForce crowned champions. Global celebration across 112 countries.
NOTABLE CHALLENGES
The problems that defined the competition — from accessible warm-ups to legendary head-scratchers.
Hypergraph Traversal
Temporal Knapsack
Crypto Key Collapse
Stellar Path Finder
Quantum Circuit
Matrix Bloom
WHAT MADE IT LEGENDARY
24-Hour Endurance
Teams coded through the night, surviving caffeine crashes and debugging marathons to chase the top 10.
112 Nations United
From Iceland to Indonesia, 5,476 minds competed simultaneously on one unified global scoreboard.
Record Submissions
Over 48,320 code submissions were processed by the IEEE judge system — a new all-time record.
Academic Excellence
Top universities worldwide sent their brightest. 78% of top-50 teams had IEEE Student Branch backing.
WRITE YOUR OWN
LEGEND
IEEEXtreme 20.0 is your chance to surpass the champions of 19.0. Register, build your squad, and compete on October 30–31, 2026.