URL copied TCS CodeVita wins Guinness title for world's largest programming competition Tata Consultancy Services on Monday announced that the ninth season of TCS CodeVita has won a Guinness World Records title as the world's largest computer programming competition with 136,054 participants from 34 countries. The 2021 TCS CodeVita competition invited college students from around the world to pit their programming skills against each other to be ranked among the top student programmers globally, a TCS statement said. "Their knowledge and coding skills were tested as they solved complex real-world problems over an intense six-hour period," it said. The winners walked away with cash prizes, and internship offers to work directly with technology leaders at TCS. This year's champion, Ben Alexander Mirtchoukof Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, is the competitions first ever US winner.