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May 1st, 2008

David Jones wins Wiring Darkness Challenge

The first phase of the Wiring contest has passed. At noontime today, we finished Darkness and have now entered Twilight. This phase runs until noon Friday.

Things were off and running as soon as the challenge was posted. Entries were posted continually through the noon deadline, with David Jones, a MATLAB Contest veteran, in the lead. Congratulations once again to David!

Here were the top 10 in Darkness:

1 David Jones
2 Nick Howe
3 Claus Still
4 Steve Hoelzer
5 nathan q
6 Alfonso Nieto-Castanon
7 Fabio Carnevale
8 Schwabenpower
9 Michael
10 DreadNox
Keep up the great work all!

Helen

By Helen Chen

14:41 UTC | Posted in Wiring | Permalink |

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