Well, what passes for action at a coding contest :) I have a few pictures though - here's Michael hard at work, in the last hour of the contest. Which I suppose I should explain - the final round is to code up a client that can play this game over the net to a server via HTTP. Alan Knight provided a manual GUI (and domain model) for the game - the contest finale is to come up with a client that plays the game against other players through a server. Here's the pic:

This next one is of Kevin Badinger. Andrei Sobchuk had placed third, but was unable to attend the show - we had announced that the top three (actually attending) contestants would be eligible for the final - so here he is:

This last one is of Blaine Buxton, asking Alan Knight a question. Alan came up with the final round contest, and provided the basic implementation that they all started with (as well as the simple server that their entries will play through on Wednesday).