REPLY CODE CHALLENGE
15.03.2018

THE WINNERS

These are the three top ranked teams that took part in this challenge:

Number One

Hasheti
Score: 2.725.958.705

Second Best

DistributedSleepyAlgorithms
Score: 2.599.783.156

Third Place

SLAM
Score: 2.232.876.809

The Challenge

The Reply Code Challenge is a team-based programming competition. The “Reply Code Master Team”, a group of Reply developers, came up with this idea because of the Reply’s ongoing efforts to promote coding to young people, businesses and geeks.

On 15th March 2018 at 4.30pm Reply launched the challenge on challenges.reply.com.

A problem statement was released and the teams, made of two, three or four people, had to solve it. Each team could send more than one solution and use their favourite programming language. During the competition a leaderboard showed real-time scores gained by coders while submitting their solutions, so enabling both participants and Code Masters to assess how teams were performing and measure their efforts. The board froze 30 minutes before the challenge deadline.

Each member of the first classified team awarded with a Razer Blade gaming laptop.

LET'S CRUNCH SOME NUMBERS

Beyond expectations, here is the participation response:

  • 7776

    CODERS registered in the challenge
  • 67

    different COUNTRIES
  • 1207

    TEAMS
  • 2328

    SOLUTIONS submitted

This all happened in a time span 4 hours total.

15.03.2018 edition - The problem

CLOUD ADVENTURE

The problem that participant coders had to solve was in the field of Cloud Computing and it was required to find out the best mix of providers to maximize the efficiency of a Cloud project. Cloud Computing is the base of the software industry, that for instance makes us able to watch our favourite TV shows with no lag or downtime, or to use our online service anytime 24h-hours and work from anywhere.
How this process can be optimized?
Among many solutions, just one was the best!