[appleeaters]Need Another Contest?!?

Hey I was developing a PHP contest for at work, but we decided not to use it because it might be too hard for the people who would have been doing it. Anyways, it's a connect4 contest where in addition to winning by getting 4 in a row you get points for doing 2 and 3 in a row (in case of a tie) so if Matt or one of you other board members want to use it, I have quite a bit of the work done already, the only thing really left is verifying correctness and tallying up scores.

the ability to get points from ties i think adds another dynamic to the game because you want to try to get the longest sequences possible.

it works quite a bit like your risk contest where you had a script controlling two scripts.

All games will be won by the first player, if good-enough methods are used. (White will usually win if a comp plays itself). The only way to avoid this is to make the game too complicated to stay within the memory bounds if it trys to use too simple(complete 0brute force, etc.) methods.
With that being said, how about a conect 100 with something like 150 columns and rows.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-coderuler/?Open&ca=daw-ja-dr

I think there are already too many game contests. How about something like a search engine/crawler, where it has a timed crawling, and judging is based on quality and number of results for searches, size of database, and what not.