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-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Invitation to the First Ever World Coding Championships Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:29:38 -0400 From: Emma Peal emma@helloworldopen.com To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Hi!
We're contacting you because we'd like to tell your students about an opportunity to participate in the first ever Coding World Championships. The event offers a brilliant chance to win prizes, gain fame, and get to know many of the most prestigious possible future employers from all around the world.
Finalists will travel to Finland for the final event, all expenses paid. The winners will share a prize totaling about 14 000 USD. This is a chance for your students to showcase their programming skills, and represent your school and country on a worldwide platform.
The website for the event is:
Would it be possible for you to forward this information to the students at your university as soon as possible? You can find more information about the event, called Hello World Open 2014, below.
Thank you in advance. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me!
Best regards,
Emma Peal emma@helloworldopen.com www.helloworldopen.com
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*Hello World Open 2014: The First Coding World Championships* http://www.helloworldopen.com
The first ever Coding World Championships, Hello World 2014, welcomes future stars of coding. About 10 000 teams of top coders are expected to participate in the exceptional battle organised by the creative technology company Reaktor and the mobile game developer Supercell.
The challenge of each team is to create an artificial intelligence -- also known as a bot -- to take part in a digital car racing game. In the traditional spirit of international sporting events, team members should all share a nationality.
The finals will eventually take place in Helsinki, Finland on June 5th at the Cable Factory. As a warm-up to the event, Supercell's second annual gaming summit will be held earlier that day.
Qualifying rounds will be split into three divisions and grouped geographically by region. Only the top two qualifiers from each region will then compete in the live finals. As always in sports, the crowd has an important role in these World Championships as well. Everyone's got a chance to follow the matches of thousands of top coders online.
Coding World Championships offers a great chance of getting to know future colleagues and employers in an international race.
The preliminary timetable for Hello World Open is as follows:
March 31st - Sign up starts. Participating in the competition is free of charge. April 7th - Sign up ends
Qualifying rounds will be held online. Follow the matches at helloworldopen.com May 6th - Hello Region 1 May 7th - Hello Region 2 May 8th -Hello Region 3
June 5th - *Coding World Finals*: six of the world's toughest coding teams meet in Helsinki, Finland.
Reaktor arranged the first Finnish Coding Championships in 2012. The objective was to code an artificial intelligence for a Pong-bot and beat all the other teams in table tennis. The event was a huge success: over 200 teams got involved and enrolled in the competition. The Championships reached over one million Finns within 24 hours, in a country of five million people.
*About Reaktor* Reaktor is a creative technology company that constructs exceptionally well-functioning services. Reaktor's team of 250 professionals consists of service designers, interaction designers, art directors, software architects, developers and coaches. Our offices are located in Helsinki, Finland and Tokyo, Japan. We strive to be the best software company in the world. For more information on Reaktor, visit www.reaktor.fi.
*About Supercell* Founded in 2010, Supercell is a mobile game developer based in Helsinki, Finland, with offices in San Francisco, Tokyo, and Seoul. Supercell's games Clash of Clans and Hay Day are available on iOS and Android devices, with the new title Boom Beach releasing soon on iOS. For more information on Supercell, visit www.supercell.com.