DEF CON 3 (Lester VanMeter, Nick Adams, James Mills, Andy Porter) won the 2024 Indiana Team Championship with 3.5/4. This is the third championship in a row won by the core team, consisting of current and former individual state champions.
Finishing clear second with 3/4 were the Illinois Boys (Artemii Khanbutaev, Matthew Tikhomirov, Justin Lee, Ryan Zhang).
Tied for the Class A prize with 2.5/4 were the Hoosier Kings (Arjun Raman, Harvey Hanke, Nikhil Murugan, Krishna Chouturi) and Purdue A (Eric Woo, Nathan Zhou, Varun Senthil, Alex Karns).
Tied for Class B were Capital Pawnishment (Ben Bentrup, Dylan Whitlow, John Bentrup, Parker Snowden) and Purdue B (Almas Zhorayev, Advait Budaraju, Grant Simpson, Vishaal Iyer).
Winning the Class C & Under prize was Medium Rare (Michael Pu, Sid Sinha, Kevin Cao, Neo Dong).
The tournament, held October 19, 2024 at Scamahorn Park in Pittsboro, sported 14 teams, the high water mark since it was resurrected in 2021.
Full Results
Team List
DEF CON 3. Left-to-right: Lester VanMeter, Andy Porter, James Mills. Not pictured is Nick Adams.