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/ ), 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!
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.
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 .
Here is the list of teams in the leader board for the final, prize-winning round: 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/ ), 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-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.