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The field guide
Every team in both top tens: who’s playing, what they’ve done, and when their score landed.
Every team in both top tens: who’s playing, what they’ve done, and when their score landed.
Boards read Sat 4:29 pm ETPublic places, provisional
A team belongs to one contest. The same player can be on a different team in each, or on a team in one and alone in the other. CPMP and Darragh Hanley are nvbanana in ARC-2 and part of NVARC3 in ARC-3; Giba plays ARC-2 alone and ARC-3 with NVARC3; the head editor plays ARC Mutants in ARC-2 and Team Turducken in ARC-3. Team rosters locked on October 26.
Leads ARC-2 at 88.06. Jeroen Cottaar is a Grandmaster, sixth in the world. Isaiah Pressman is a Grandmaster, 14th in the world, and won Orbit Wars. Dries Smit led development of the Tufa AI agent that won last year’s ARC-AGI-3 preview. Stefano Viel is a research scientist based in Zürich.
Playing: Dries Smit, Jeroen Cottaar, Isaiah Pressman and Stefano Viel.
ARC Prize cardA one-person team with two rabbits for an avatar, and near the top of both boards. A Kaggle Competitions Master with a gold medal at Eedi (third of 1,446 teams).
Playing: Yi-Chia Chen.
ARC Prize cardNVIDIA’s two-person ARC-2 entry: Jean-François Puget (CPMP), with 29 competition golds and a peak world rank of sixth, and Darragh Hanley, with 28 golds and a peak rank of fourth.
Playing: Jean-François Puget and Darragh Hanley.
ARC Prize cardFive students from Tokyo who won gold at NVIDIA’s Nemotron challenge (fifth of 4,185). Also entered in ARC-3.
Playing: Alwin Theodoric, Billy Anggara, Darren Amadeus Martin, Tri Ardian Rinalda and Muhammad Yassir Ramadhan.
ARC Prize cardA two-player lab that jumped from 20th to fifth in a single day on Friday.
Playing: hongori and quarkliu.
A five-player squad that held third place on October 20.
Playing: cookizesong, jiaxibi0220, xiezejian, yuhuake240506 and zhangsongxin.
A one-person team and a Kaggle Master, 290th in the world, with golds in the Pokémon TCG AI Battle Challenge and Kaggriculture. Plays both contests.
Playing: Michał Gromadzki.
ARC Prize cardA one-person team that jumped from the 1,800s to the top 40 in a day on October 15, and was in the top ten by October 25.
Playing: carriem7.
Chan Kha Vu’s team, which says it climbed from about 50 to 76 points in five days.
Playing: arazzd, Chan Kha Vu and nguyennguyen599.
ARC Prize cardOne-person team. Up 2 places since the previous evening’s reading.
Playing: guoqingu.
The same two rabbits, near the top here too: one player, no teammates.
Playing: Yi-Chia Chen.
ARC Prize cardSecond on this board behind Yi-Chia Chen. The ARC-3 roster grows to six: the four above plus dlorah and infinitecreativity.
Playing: dlorah, Dries Smit, infinitecreativity, Jeroen Cottaar, Isaiah Pressman and Stefano Viel.
ARC Prize cardThe one-person team of xz: a Kaggle Master, 15th in the world and 10th at best, and winner of the AI Agent Security contest (first of 4,186).
Playing: xz.
ARC Prize cardThat’s us: the head editor’s team, with Son Pham and five others.
Playing: dzjiann, Keith Tyser, Mark Barney, NT, ngyzly, scizical and Son Pham.
ARC Prize cardFour players, three with ties to Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria: Mykyta Ielanskyi, Florian Sestak and Lukas Aichberger, plus gklambauer.
Playing: Mykyta Ielanskyi, Florian Sestak, gklambauer and Lukas Aichberger.
ARC Prize cardA one-person team and a Kaggle Expert with a silver medal for Drawing with LLMs.
Playing: yktori.
ARC Prize cardThe rookie: a one-person team whose Kaggle account dates only from March 2026. Plays both contests.
Playing: Michael.
ARC Prize cardSeven accounts. Four are NVIDIA Grandmasters: CPMP, Darragh Hanley, Ivan Sorokin and Giba (a former world No. 1), plus Elad Sarafian, Gal Kaplun and Yeyin Zhu, whose profiles list ARC-3 as their only contest.
Playing: Jean-François Puget, Darragh Hanley, Elad Sarafian, Gal Kaplun, Ivan Sorokin, titericz and Yeyin Zhu.
ARC Prize cardA four-player team that includes Dongming Sheng, a language-AI researcher at Tencent, and common-people, a Peking University student.
Playing: common-people, Dongming Sheng, Florencia Solange and Grigoriy Zatravkin.
ARC Prize cardAn eight-player Japanese all-star squad with four Kaggle Masters, among them yuto083 (54th in the world), ISAKA Tsuyoshi (78th) and re (88th), who was on the team that won NVIDIA’s Nemotron challenge.
Playing: ISAKA Tsuyoshi, konbu17, pomcho555, re, PunkCyber, Takeru Sato, Teppei Fukutomi and yuto083.
ARC Prize card“Reached” is when we first spotted each team’s current score on the board; Kaggle posted it a little earlier. Facts about people come from their public Kaggle profiles and our own records, checked October 30 and 31. Want the people behind the handles? Who’s Who has the master list.