ACM Java Challenge Revealed (And Over)

thirty-seven writes "The ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest world finals are being held today, at 8:30am local time in Beverly Hills. But before the "real" contest started, the teams got to have some fun competing in the Java Challenge, where the teams write Java programs that directly compete against each other in a simulated environment. Although it was a big secret ahead of time, a pdf on the site now reveals that this year's Challenge was writing a program to drive a race car in a simulated demolition derby. No official results have been released yet, but according to their coach, the University of Waterloo team came in third overall after a slow start."