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Rails Rumble 2008

<3 hackathons

written up by venturebeat
concerned yelp email
too much traffic
lost to meetinbetween.us
among another 100+ entries

Rails Rumble 2009

LAZEROIDS!
asteroids + multiplayer

forcing 2009 to be realtime

XHR long-polling
Orbited: Python twisted package

"Rails"?

1,185 lines of JavaScript
12 lines of Ruby

omg node

yay websockets!
yay 100% javascript!

omg dilemma

rails rumble </3 node.js

reenactment

node.js knockout #1

node v0.1, v0.2.4 (no package.json)
100 entries, 200 teams (arbitrary limit)
sponsors Palm, Sencha, Yahoo!, CouchDB, 10gen, Smule, JSConf, npm(??)
judges Brendan Eich, John Resig, Ryan Dahl, Isaac Schlueter, Mikeal Rogers, Guillermo Rauch, TJ Holowaychuk, ...
locations SF, NYC, Boston, Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Paris, Vancouver

2010 winners

Swarmation (realtime multiplayer shape-making game)
Blädderblock (realtime multiplayer pictionary)
Wrath (REST API testing)
GIANT ROBOTS... (realtime multiplayer tower defense)
Serrano (realtime multi-browser session sharing)
Gabber (cross-site shared chat room)
Scrabb.ly (multiplayer collaborative crossword game)

2011 winners

Observer (realtime session spying)
Eight Bit Beats (realtime multiplayer music generation)
Driv.in (shared simultaneous youtube viewing)
Doodle or Die (multiplayer doodle telephone game)
ACROnode (multiplayer realtime acronym game)
GPU Lava (node+webgl bindings on an HP TouchPad)
Chess@home (SETI@Home for chess AI)

2012!

November 10-12, 2012 UTC
Registration open soon
@node_knockout

nko3 changes

no prizes
come talk to me if you disagree
nodejitsu only
HQ - new joyent offices

thanks

credits to @burnto, @huned for graphics