CS Games

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The second round of the AI competition at CS Games 2005
The second round of the AI competition at CS Games 2005

CS Games is a computer science competition hosted by a different university in Canada annually. The competition typically attracts more than 30 teams (between 6 and 10 members per team) from colleges from across North America, but primarily from Canada and northeastern United States. It is open to students majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and related fields.

The events are primarily focused on computer programming and socials aspects, but also include other competitions such as web design and sports.

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[edit] 2008 edition

In 2008, the CS Games will be hosted by University of Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The next edition of the competition will take place from March 7 to 9th, 2008. All the details are available at [[1]]

[edit] Well Known Facts

During the edition of 2008, PLMOKNIJN is common knowledge for most of the Scavenger Hunt participant. The teams were using Blog referencing and Metadata to make an image shown up in Google Search Image result. One of the blog that have used this tecnic http://www.edito.qc.ca/2008/03/08/plmoknijn-for-cs-games-2008/

[edit] 2007 edition

In 2007, the CS Games were hosted by McGill University in Montreal, Quebec (Canada).

[edit] 2006 edition

In 2006, the CS Games were hosted by École de Technologie Supérieure in Montreal, Quebec (Canada). The competition was held between March 3rd and 5th 2006.

[edit] Video presentation of the event

A short film showing memorable moments of the week-end has been released on Google Video.

[edit] Overall Results

Here are the overall competition results of this year competitions.


Rank Team Number University Team Name Current Score/100
1 20 University of Rochester Leeroy Jenkins 67.49
2 10 McMaster University Team Blue Screen of Death 62
3 14 École de technologie supérieure GofTen 61.92
4 24 Polytechnique Divide-and-Conquer 61.51
5 7 Université de Montréal Code wookies 59.48
6 30 Université de Sherbrooke C+US 58.52
7 18 Carleton University The Family Learning Channel 58.37
8 31 Université de Sherbrooke USherbr0x 57.66
9 13 McGill University Delete 57.56
10 16 Concordia University ++Concordia 54.43
11 3 McGill University Ctrl 53.49
12 9 Université du Québec en Outaouais Geek Squad 53.05
13 17 Concordia University Concordia++ 52.43
14 11 Université Laval NullPointerException 50.64
15 12 Queen's University Kernel Panic and Her Buffer Underruns 50.43
16 8 Dalhousie and St. Mary's Universities The Delta Force 50.29
17 6 Polytechnique Triple Hex 49.86
18 4 McGill University ALT 49.38
19 35 Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Chicoutimi Damacy 49.02
20 19 Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières / SUNY Brockport Code Team / Brockport CPS Eagles 48.89
21 28 University of Guelph U of G 47.92
22 23 University of Ottawa CSSA 47.9
23 26 Memorial University of Newfoundland MUN 47.37
24 22 Université du Québec à Chicoutimi We Love Chicoutimi 45.63
25 2 Université du Québec à Rimouski UQAR 44.25
26 29 École de technologie supérieure Garbage Collectors 43.02
27 32 Queen's University Queen's Continuum 41
28 25 Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Tigers 40.25
29 21 Laurentian University Frosty Bytes 40.06
30 33 Rochester Institute of Technology RIT Tigers 2 36.17
31 15 Clarion University of PA Clarion Zombies 35.42
32 34 Queen's University Super Troopers 34.35
33 1 Brock University Big McLarge Huge 33.84

[edit] Individual competitions

The overall was the result of the individual competitions as follow:

  • Artificial intelligence 13%
  • The Challenge 12%
  • Team software engineering 10%
  • Assembly 6%
  • Xtreme Programming 8%
  • Web Design 8%
  • Debugging 8%
  • Algorithm 6%
  • Gaming 6%
  • Scavenger Hunt 6%
  • Sports 6%
  • Scripthink Big 6%
  • Participation 6%
  • Final Group Game 6%

[edit] Previous competition winners

[edit] 2007 Industry Sponsors

[edit] Flash Out videos

One of CS Games' greatest tradition is the presentation of Flash Out videos from each participating universities at the opening ceremonies. Flash out videos from preceding competitions are available on Google Video.

[edit] Funny Facts

2006 Edition:

  • A participant vomited on the laptop of another participant of his team. This resulted in the complete disassembly of the laptop, a washing with a toothbrush and a dead keyboard.

[edit] External links