On Saturday, November 13, 2004, a coordinated, regional programming contest was held at 9 universites. 161 computer science teams from 73 schools competed. Elon had two teams in the contest. The first team, Phoenix I, composed of Ryan Barnard, Avery Edwards and Michael Richards, finished in the top 14% of all of the teams. In fact, they led all 161 teams during the first 30 minutes of the three hour contest. The second team, Phoenix II, was composed of Matt Holt, Eric Hydric and Nathan Shemonski. They finished in the top 61%. The advisor for the Elon Programming Teams is Joel Hollingsworth.