Congratulations Rock Paper Azure Challenge Week #2 Winners!

logo_rpaIt’s Friday night, that means another five Rock Paper Azure Challenge contestants just got $50 Best Buy gift cards! Week #2 of the challenge ended at 6pm EST on 12/2/2011.  Congratulations to the following players for having the Top 5 bots for Week #2:

  1. RPAChallengeProtist
  2. RockMeister
  3. choi
  4. porterhouse
  5. Appsolut

Does your bot have what it takes to win?  There are two more weeks to try and find out, now through December 16th, 2011.  Visit the Rock Paper Azure Challenge site to learn more about the contest and get started.  Remember, there are two ways to win:

Sweepstakes

To enter the sweepstakes all you have to do is enter a bot, any bot – even the pre-coded ones we provide – into the game between now and 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 16th.  No ninja coding skills need – heck, you don’t even need Visual Studio or a Windows machine to participate!

At 6 pm ET on Friday, December 16, 2011 the "Fall Sweepstakes" round will be closed and no new entries will be accepted. Shortly thereafter, four bots will be drawn at random for the Grand Prize (trip to Cancun, Mexico), First Prize (Acer Aspire S3 laptop), Second Prize (Windows Phone), and Third Prize (XBox w/Kinect bundle). 

Competition

For the type-A folks, we’re still keen on making this a competitive effort as well, so each week - beginning Nov. 25th and ending Dec. 16th - the top FIVE bots on the leaderboard will win a $50 Best Buy Gift card.  If your bot is good enough to be in the top five on successive weeks, you’ll take home a gift card each of those weeks too.  Of course, since you’ve entered a bot, you’re automatically in the sweepstakes as well!

Note: As with past iterations of the challenge, even though you can iterate and upload updated bots for the competition, you will only be entered into the sweepstakes one time.

You know what they say…  you gotta be in it to win it!  Good luck to all players in weeks #3 & #4!