Contest Ideas Quest

[Bourgeois_Rage]

What is the Contest?
Speed Coding Contest. A time will be set when the problem will be presented. The problem can be defined by Vroom or somebody that will not participate. It should be some kind of strange unusual task. The first to get a working program submitted wins. The method does not matter. It will be interesting to see how many different responses we get.
How will entries be submitted?
Users will place there code in response to the Contest post.
How will the entries be scored?
First program that works without errors or warnings wins. Must use Strict and -w.
Who will score the entries?
Vroom or whoever starts the idea for the contest.
When/will submissions be viewable by everyone?
When they are submitted. The first working one wins, so no one can cheat because if they steal code, it's too late anyway.

[t0mas]

Those of us who thinks best during day and live on the other side of the globe, might suffer from a contest starting US time. Maybe we could push a button and have the problem mailed to us. The time taken will then be calculated from the button-push to the posting time.
... and monks must promise not to forward the mail to someone else. But that would be quite unmonkish, wouldn't it ...

/brother t0mas

[Bourgeois_Rage]

I completely understand your concern. My thought was that multiple contest could take place all at different times of the day, for the different users.
I do like your idea about having the push button that calculates time, but then when people submit their solution they will have to be emailed or something.
We can't have the other monks having a sneak peak at the code before they hit the button.
-Rage

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