> This just isn't that useful in the real world. What if these contests were more of an 8 hour practicum, everyone has their own machine (and each team has a m

> This just isn't that useful in the real world. What if these contests were more of an 8 hour practicum, everyone has their own machine (and each team has a meeting room with whiteboards?). At lunch you have to replace every member on your team with fresh faces who didn't watch anything you did, only get the problem description (subject to change) and any documentation you left in the code. Probably wouldn't be as fun, but might provide slightly better signalling.