{"id":164,"date":"2008-09-20T13:29:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T19:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2008-09-20T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T19:29:49","slug":"the-galcon-prize-coding-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/20\/the-galcon-prize-coding-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Galcon Prize&#8221; Coding Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, so I&#8217;ve never been feeling overly smart about how my rankings system works.\u00a0 And quite a few of you have expressed interest in hacking on the stats data or trying to improve the ranks some way.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s your chance!<\/p>\n<p>Introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.galcon.com\/prize\/\">The Galcon Prize<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Galcon Prize is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to improve the Galcon rankings system! Galcon is a winner-takes-all multi-player game for 2-4 players. Entries are to be written in python. The prize is an 8GB iPod Touch. Entries must be uploaded by Oct 5.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check it out, and have some fun!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 If all works well, in a few weeks Galcon rankings will be considerably more-awesomer \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>-Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, so I&#8217;ve never been feeling overly smart about how my rankings system works.\u00a0 And quite a few of you have expressed interest in hacking on the stats data or trying to improve the ranks some way.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s your chance! Introducing The Galcon Prize! &#8220;The Galcon Prize is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to improve the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,66,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-galcon","category-iphone","category-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}