The best thing of the ICPC is the first C, which stands for "collegiate". It means that you get to solve a set of problems with three persons, but with only one computer.

This means that you have to be smart about who is going to spend time coding, thinking, or debugging. The time pressure is intense, and it really is a team sport.

It's also extra fun if one of the team members prefers a Dvorak keyboard layout and vi, and the others do not.

I wonder how three different AI vendors would cooperate. It would probably lift reinforcement learning to the next level.