Announcing the TQ Tumult Winners!

Announcing the TQ Tumult Winners!

Last month, we hosted the first ever TQ Tumult contest for student developers. This March Madness-like event took place over the span of two weeks and featured 101 students from 24 different schools completing missions and objectives in TwilioQuest, a PC role-playing game inspired by classics of the 16-bit era where players helped defeat the evil Legacy Systems while learning skills related to Twilio and general programming.

775,750 experience points (XP) was completed by the end, making it the second highest achieving TwilioQuest event after Virtual Superclass at SIGNAL 2020.

Today, we’re happy to announce the winners of the contest who will receive personal streaming setups and school honor. Here are the winners:

TQ Tumult Winning Teams

1. Taking first place was team rip mixer, a team of five Harvard juniors that together earned 137,500 XP! They took a lead early on, starting to complete missions and earn XP as soon as TQ Tumult started at 12:01am PST October 19th! Congratulations, Howie Guo, Randy Yan, Joshua Pan, Rose Hong, and Kevin Chen!
2. Taking second place was team Commetment Issues, earning 137,300 XP. These five University of Texas at Dallas freshmen also started earning XP as soon as they could. Congratulations, Lisa Wu, Duyen Nguyen, Julia Feng, Aaron Chang, and Kyle Zeng--they will earn impExplorer DevKits to have fun with IoT.
3. Rounding out the top three is team Scrappy's Army, a team representing University of North Texas.They earned a solid 108,250 XP. Way to go, Anwesh Baisyat, Santosh Pradhan, Isbi Malla, Prajit Budhathoki, Raj Gautam--they won BubbleSort Zines.

Onwards and Upwards in TwilioQuest!

Some more background on TwilioQuest:

• VentureBeat feature
• Can we talk about TwilioQuest?
• Introducing TwilioQuest! 
• Learn to Program in TwilioQuest

So what are you waiting for? Advancing your code skills has never been more fun! I'll see you onboard the Fog Owl, our prototype Cloud Exploration Vessel that lets players travel deeper into The Cloud than ever before.