> The competition isn't even really discussed, how well it did, how many participants it drew, what came out of it. I took the article as an invitation to dig

> The competition isn't even really discussed, how well it did, how many participants it drew, what came out of it. I took the article as an invitation to dig deeper into the competition (follow the links). So I did. Here's what I learned... Thirty teams registered for the competition. They represented 18 schools from 13 cities and 3 provinces all across Canada: - St. Michaels University School (Victoria) - St. John’s School (Vancouver) - John G. Diefenbaker High School (Calgary) - Robert Thirsk High School (Calgary) - Webber Academy (Calgary) - Strathcona High School (Edmonton) - Waterloo Collegiate Institute (Waterloo) - Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute (Guelph) - Westmount Secondary School (Hamilton) - Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute (Toronto) - Woodbridge College (Vaughan) - Langstaff Secondary School (Richmond Hill) - Henry Street High School (Whitby) - Bayridge Secondary School (Kingston) - A.Y. Jackson Secondary School (Ottawa) - Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School (Ottawa) - Nepean High School (Ottawa) - St. Patrick’s High School (Ottawa) Here is the list of participating teams: https://teams.jrmpc.ca/teams https://teams.jrmpc.ca/teams . Here is the list of teams in the leader board for the final, prize-winning round: https://teams.jrmpc.ca/leaderboard https://teams.jrmpc.ca/leaderboard . So, here were the winners: First Prize of $6,000 went to team ‘WCI1’ of Waterloo Collegiate Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. - Keenan Gugeler (Captain) - Alex Liao - Ethan White - Thomas Ingram Second Prize of $4,000 went to Team Dijkstra of Centennial Collegiate Vocational Institute in Guelph, Ontario. - Andrew Dong (Captain) - David Xiao - Alexander Liu - Brayden Chumbley Third Prize of $3,000 went to team ‘Bickle Blatwoon’ of Robert Thirsk High School in Calgary, Alberta. - Xinhua Cao (Captain) - Hunter Chen - Umut Emre - Ethan Kerr The following teams were recognized for their fine efforts in the Honour Roll. They were awarded $500 each. - The Battle of Waterloo from Woodbridge College in Vaughan, Ontario - Computationalism from St. Michaels University School in Victoria, BC - Quad Coders from St. Michaels University School in Victoria, BC Throughout the JRMPC blog (https://jrmpc.ca/blog/ https://jrmpc.ca/blog/ ), all the competition software was made available for you to download so that you could play with it yourself. That includes all the source code! A great article comparing JRMPC to another similar competition was published: https://smalltalk.tech.blog/2020/03/03/battlesnake-the-competition/ https://smalltalk.tech.blog/2020/03/03/battlesnake-the-compe... . It revealed some terrific insight. All in all, the competition appeared to be a great success. It has certainly drawn a lot of attention, which was purportedly the goal. This is the PR value that it sought.