Recent DWITE News

DDoSed

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:57:39 -0400

Sadly it seems some individual or group has nothing better to do then wreck the educational opportunities of other students by attacking the DWITE front end server during contests with DDoS attacks. Unfortunately there is not much we can do to prevent this type of attack beyond working with our data center to filter out all of the IP addresses being used in this type of attack and contacting the proper authorities with the information we have on the attackers.

We will keep the judge running for this round and try to keep things up but there may be long periods of down time which we deeply apologize for.

The 8th round for this school year will be canceled well we work on methods of preventing this type of attack for future DWITE seasons and possibly on upgrading our infrastructure to increase reliability.

Sorry for any inconvenience

Round 7 v2.0

Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:04:57 -0400

Today is the make up contest for round 7. We have spoken with our data center and hopefully there will be no repeat issues with DDoS attacks.

Good luck and have fun!

7th Round Rescheduled

Sun, 23 May 2010 02:39:17 -0400

The 7th round that was canceled last Wednesday has been rescheduled for Wednesday June 2nd at the same time (3:15PM EST). All teams singed up for the last round will still be singed up for the rescheduled round and new teams will still have till the 2nd to sign up for the new round.

Hopefully this round will run much smother then the last.

Rescheduling of Round 7

Wed, 19 May 2010 18:51:37 -0400

As many of you have noticed, just as round 7 started the DWITE.ca server went down. This was due to a DDoS attack occurring at the same time causing the server to become unavailable. As most users where unable to access the site, we have canceled the 7th round and will be rescheduling it for a latter date once we have assessed the damage and put measures in place to stop this from occurring in future rounds.

There will be an update latter this week (both posted on the site and e-mailed to users singed up for the 7th round) with the date and time of the make up round. We are deeply sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused and hope that you will be able to participate in the make up round.

DWITE Round 7

Wed, 19 May 2010 12:20:23 -0400

Today is the 7th round of the 2009/2010 DWITE contest. We have 187 teams singed up to take the contest at 3:15PM EST. There is still time to sign your teams up, but make sure to get it done before the contest begins.

Good luck and have fun!

6th Round Wrap Up

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:15:09 -0400

Today's round ended with AJ from Waterloo Collegiate Institute in first place, closely followed by No Pseudo Fishing and Cyril from SATEC @ W. A. Porter C. I. and Don Mills Collegiate Institute.

The round went smoothly with over 80 teams submitting solutions and only a minor issue with the sample output in question 3.

We hope every one had a good time and would love to hear your feedback, comments and criticisms so we can improve the contest. See you next round.

Round 6

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:49:23 -0400

Today is the 6th round of the 2009-2010 DWITE season, and we have 187 teams with 367 students from 49 schools singed up to take the contest.

Good luck with today's contest and have fun!

Contest Moved

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 22:08:52 -0400

Due to a personal scheduling conflict, the DWITE round scheduled for April 14 will be moved to April 28th. We are sorry for the short notice and any inconvenience this may cause.

All teams currently signed up for the 14th round will still be signed up for the new round on the 28th.

End of Round 5

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:15:46 -0400

Round 5 ends with team beef-cheese in first place, closely followed by RoflcopterBBQ and >u; tied with Joe?.

Question #2 had a small problem with the test case, having one line incorrect causing the highest possible score to be 4/5 for the question.

Remember that unlike past years there will be a 6th, 7th and 8th round this year, in April, May and June respectively.

We hope you had fun and look forward to seeing you next round.

Round 5 and Haskell

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 11:52:02 -0400

Today is the 5th round of the 2009-2010 DWITE season, and we have 199 teams with 402 students signed up to take the contest.

We have added the Glasgow Haskell Compiler to the judge so students may now program there DWITE solutions in Haskell. If you have any language requests let us know and we can try to have them added to the judge.

Good luck with today's contest and have fun!