{"id":2448,"date":"2013-09-24T09:46:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T14:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2013-09-25T10:20:21","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T15:20:21","slug":"a-dead-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/community\/2013\/09\/24\/a-dead-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dead Heat!"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been following Cody<\/a> for any time at all, you know that we have some superstar competitors who have stayed in the top ranks since the very beginning. Some time ago I started tracking the top 10 players using Trendy<\/a>. Here’s what that chart looks like.<\/p>\n

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For the longest time, and dating back to the day Cody launched, Bryant Tran (@bmtran<\/a>) was the undisputed king of the hill. We even featured him in an interview on this blog<\/a>. Eventually Richard Zapor<\/a> was to surpass him. Richard is a tireless competitor and has made something of a specialty of creating high-quality challenges for the community (173 and counting!).<\/p>\n

If you look at the blue line that represents Richard, you can see that he has steadily moved upward. But now look at Alfonso Nieto-Castanon<\/a>. His green line progresses in enormous leaps punctuated by periods of relative inactivity. Alfonso finally passed Bryant Tran earlier this year, and today I was surprised to see that he was also converging rapidly with Richard at the number one spot.<\/p>\n

When I saw this graph, I dashed straight over to the Cody leaderboard and what should I see but an exact tie for first place between Richard and Alfonso! <\/p>\n

\"cody-leaders\"<\/p>\n

I was so impressed I took this snapshot. It’s probably changed by now and who knows who will be in the lead at the end of the day? But still, this snapshot depicts a great moment in Cody and sporting history. <\/p>\n

Well done, gentlemen! It’s an honor to compete in the same game, though not in the same league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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