> "If you love programming, games, and competition, it’s the most fun you’ll ever have" As both a past competitor and someone who's been following the current g

> "If you love programming, games, and competition, it’s the most fun you’ll ever have" As both a past competitor and someone who's been following the current game, I can't stress this enough, especially if you're the kind of person who likes to think for a long time to come up with novel approaches to problems. As a contestant -- it's quite satisfying to be a step ahead of the crowd and watch other teams copy your strategy. As a spectator -- watching the metagame evolve is exciting. Because the game is brand new every year, there's a fast-paced metagame that the clever contestants get to define. It really brings me back the early days of starcraft, when the unit synergies were not well defined and players were theorycrafting new build orders all the time!