PyCon AU started this year with CodeWars on the Friday night.
The elimination round saw teams starting with a link to an EXE file that led to a puzzle of missing prime numbers. The first four teams with the correct answer went on to the semi-finals.
CodeWars warm-up
Recovering messages from PPM images, finding secret phrases, helping Olympic athletes take their drugs… it was a varied night of coding challenges.
CodeWars semi-final 1
CodeWars semi-final 2
The final code-down was between the Free Software Melbourne team and the “My Little Pony” team (I think that was the team name… it was late, there was wine, but I swear they called themselves “My Little Pony”).
The Free Software Melbourne team in action
My Little Pony was victorious in a battle of wits, wit, coding and an amusing Django app that almost worked.