Pug’s Place

Today was the first open UF programming competition my group has put together. We had 10 competitors and Tim and myself acting the part of Judges/Proctors. At the end of the 3 hour competition everyone there had solved at least one problem so that was a testament to UF having decent competitors. Really, there were only two Programming Team members competing there today and one of them is retired (since he’s attended too many competitions).

It went well, despite some initial hangups getting the contest environment to work properly.

This was sort of the rehearsal for the larger competition in two weeks I’m organizing. UCF in Orlando is sending up three teams (of three persons each) to compete with 7 more teams from UF. We’re assembling people right now. I’ve purchased the prizes, reserved the rooms and done most of the advertising, but it’s a lot of work. Hopefully it will turn out well.

Amusingly, on all of the advertisements I wrote as the tagline: “FOOD, PRIZES AND ETERNAL GLORY!”

Now off to see the California Guitar Trio perform, live.