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"A programming contest crossed with a drinking game. What can possibly go wrong?"
While we're still waiting on the official list of approved contests to be announced, we want to at least announce our intentions on bringing Crash and Compile back for it's fourth year at DEF CON 21.
Crash And Compile is a ACM-style programming contest crossed with a drinking game, where teams of two people try to solve as many programming problems as they can. As teams compile and run their programs, each time their code fails to compile, produces the incorrect output or segfaults, the team must drink. Meanwhile, our lovely Team Distraction will be doing what they can to make the job of programming while intoxicated all the more difficult and/or enjoyable.
This year things are a little different, as the contest is under new management. By who you ask? You might know them as the team who turned a PDP-11/23 into a robot last year, and as the team who in previous years chose to program in random languages (many of which they didn't know) by marking them on the faces of basketball sized metal dice. Yes, this year Crash and Compile is being brought to you by The Psychoholics.
Do you think you can code? Do think you can code while drinking, and while distracted by the loveliest of lovelies? Do you have what it takes to Crash and Compile?
Like last year, we'll be holding a pre-qualification round closer to DEF CON. This thread is mostly for questions, teams expressing their interest in competing, and general shit talking.
A quick run down of the contest:
The Teams:
- 9 Competing teams of one or two contestants each.
- 1 Sober team, Team Control Group
- 1 Team Distraction
The Rules:
- The 10 Programming teams get an ACM Programming Contest style programming challenge and have 45 minutes to get the correct output.
- If it doesn't compile, take a drink.
- If it compiles but doesn't run, take a drink.
- If it runs but doesn't produce the right output, take a drink.
Lather, rinse, repeat until you can't see the terminal anymore or until they kick us out at the end of the night. Typically, we get about 4 or 5 programs in.
Scoring is as follows:
- The first team to get the correct output gets 3 points, everyone else takes a drink.
- The second team gets 2 points, everyone still programming takes a drink.
- The third team gets 1 point, everyone still programming is probably drunk already, but they still take a drink.
- If any Competing team finishes before Team Control Group, they get 1 extra point, and everyone still working gets an extra drink. (Unfortunately, by their vary nature, TCG doesn't get scored.)
- Any unclaimed points at the end of the 45 minute round go to Team Distraction.
Expect more details to follow, but this will get things started. Feel free to post here or contact me if you have any questions.
While we're still waiting on the official list of approved contests to be announced, we want to at least announce our intentions on bringing Crash and Compile back for it's fourth year at DEF CON 21.
Crash And Compile is a ACM-style programming contest crossed with a drinking game, where teams of two people try to solve as many programming problems as they can. As teams compile and run their programs, each time their code fails to compile, produces the incorrect output or segfaults, the team must drink. Meanwhile, our lovely Team Distraction will be doing what they can to make the job of programming while intoxicated all the more difficult and/or enjoyable.
This year things are a little different, as the contest is under new management. By who you ask? You might know them as the team who turned a PDP-11/23 into a robot last year, and as the team who in previous years chose to program in random languages (many of which they didn't know) by marking them on the faces of basketball sized metal dice. Yes, this year Crash and Compile is being brought to you by The Psychoholics.
Do you think you can code? Do think you can code while drinking, and while distracted by the loveliest of lovelies? Do you have what it takes to Crash and Compile?
Like last year, we'll be holding a pre-qualification round closer to DEF CON. This thread is mostly for questions, teams expressing their interest in competing, and general shit talking.
A quick run down of the contest:
The Teams:
- 9 Competing teams of one or two contestants each.
- 1 Sober team, Team Control Group
- 1 Team Distraction
The Rules:
- The 10 Programming teams get an ACM Programming Contest style programming challenge and have 45 minutes to get the correct output.
- If it doesn't compile, take a drink.
- If it compiles but doesn't run, take a drink.
- If it runs but doesn't produce the right output, take a drink.
Lather, rinse, repeat until you can't see the terminal anymore or until they kick us out at the end of the night. Typically, we get about 4 or 5 programs in.
Scoring is as follows:
- The first team to get the correct output gets 3 points, everyone else takes a drink.
- The second team gets 2 points, everyone still programming takes a drink.
- The third team gets 1 point, everyone still programming is probably drunk already, but they still take a drink.
- If any Competing team finishes before Team Control Group, they get 1 extra point, and everyone still working gets an extra drink. (Unfortunately, by their vary nature, TCG doesn't get scored.)
- Any unclaimed points at the end of the 45 minute round go to Team Distraction.
Expect more details to follow, but this will get things started. Feel free to post here or contact me if you have any questions.
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