“This is a team coding challenge that lasts for 72 hours and in which you have to solve a series of very hard tasks by writing (functional) code.”
This year’s task came from the Japanese game show where contestants contort through a hole in a wall. Your figure has to fit without stretching any segment. He forgot to form a team and played solo. Seventy-two hours of hard geometry is the kind of fun most programmers never get from the day job.