The 1st Transcendental Ruby Imbroglio Contest for rubyKaigi

• To write the most Transcendental, Imbroglio Ruby program.
• To illustrate some of the subtleties (and design issues) of Ruby.
• To show the robustness and portability of Ruby interpreters.
• To stabilize the spec of Ruby by the presence of valuable but unmaintainable code.

1. Your entry must be a complete Ruby program.
2. The size of your program must be <= 4096 bytes in length. The number of non-space characters must be <= 2048. The total size of your compressed submission must be less than ten megabyte in size.
3. You can submit multiple entries, and your team may consist of any number of members.
4. The entirety of your entry must be submitted under MIT License.
5. Your entry must bring the judges a surprise, excitement, and/or laughter.

They are not strict rules but hints or suggestions. You can ignore them but we'd recommend you to follow them.

• Matz Ruby Implementation (MRI) 1.9/2.0 is recommended.
  • MRI 1.8 is highly discouraged because your entry won't work in near future.
• You can use implementations other than MRI, such as JRuby and Rubinius.
• The judges would prefer more stoic, more portable, and/or more funny entries.
• You are encouraged to examine the winners of previous IOCCC contests.
• You can require a gem library.
  • But note that we will expect such entries to be much more interesting than an entry that uses no library; hence we will judge them strictly.
  • It is highly discouraged to abuse gem to get around the size limit.
• To judge without bias, we will try to keep each entry anonymous during judgment. Do not include anything that reveal your identity (such as a signature, copyright, URL, etc.) in your program.

• 1st Apr. 2013: contest announcement
• 18th May 2013: submission deadline
• 1st Jun. 2013: result announcement (in RubyKaigi 2013)

Here are the awards and authors for the winning entries of TRICK 2013.

• "Good way to make programs wonderful"
  • baban
• "Most characteristic"
  • yoshi-taka
• "Ruby by Ruby for Ruby award"
  • Yutaka Hara
• "Worst house of garbage"
  • Nakamura Narihiro
• "Best way to return true"
  • NAKAMURA Usaku
• "Most competitive"
  • Yusuke Endoh
• "Worst abuse of constants" - Dishonorable mention
  • Yutaka Hara
• "Most classic" - Bronze award
  • Yusuke Endoh
• "Most Readable" - Silver award
  • Shinichiro Hamaji
• "Best pangram" - Gold award
  • kinaba

Alphabetical order.

• Yusuke Endoh (@mametter. Ruby committer. IOCCC winner.)
• Koichiro Eto (@eto. Media Artist. Chairman at NicoNicoGakkai Beta.)
• Shinichiro Hamaji (@shinh. The admin of anarchy golf. IOCCC winner.)
• Yutaka Hara (@yhara. The author of Japanese esolang book.)
• Yukihiro Matsumoto (a.k.a. matz. @yukihiro_matz. The creator of Ruby.)
• Sun Park (a.k.a. leonid. The 1st super Ruby golfer.)
• Hirofumi Watanabe (@eban. Ruby committer. The 2nd super Ruby golfer.)

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Copyright (c) 2013, TRICK Winners and Judges.

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