The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

I had a nice post written up that listed everyone individually and thanked them for all their hard work this year, but then my browser decided that crashing was a better thing to do than posting. I'll just say thank you to everyone who helped prepare/run the game this year. Thank you to anyone who played in it this year. In the upcoming week I hope that the VM will be cleaned up a bit and a torrent posted. When that happens I'll be sure to post a link here. I also plan on putting together a post which details my thoughts for the future of HoH and hopefully encourage some kind of discussion on it.

The Good:

This year we had some new things to the game. I think the wireless webcam (not sure if anyone actually cracked it) was a great touch, as was the phone and player attempts to social engineer their way into the building. A few hours before we went live with the game we decided to expand to allow everyone who signed up to play (the waitlist was 20+ people long). Besides some user error during the quick reconfiguration of the systems things went amazingly well with the last minute changes.

The Bad:

From my perspective I only noticed a few minor bugs. The entire "Binary Analysis" section was supposed to be on the www.evil.corp box. It ended up on ns1.evil.corp because that had a web server running on it a few weeks prior to the conference, and I had put the binaries there. When Fotios moved from ns1.evil.corp and set up www.evil.corp he moved everything over except my binaries (since he wasn't sure what they were). I didn't notice this until the game was started and I didn't feel like moving them during the game.

We had a minor problem with the link between the two switches going off-line for a few minutes while we tracked it down. This wasn't such a big deal.

Because we expanded the game to 40 people we had no way to fit that many people - plus team members in some cases - around a few tables. As such we just decided that sitting on chairs would be the best option. It turned out that we got absolutely slammed with people and we will have to reconsider how to configure the physical layout better for next year.

The only other bug I'm aware of was involved with the last row of the scoreboard not being saved properly. I believe Gentooooooo9er (he wrote the scoreboard entirely on his own and I liked it so much that we went with it during the game) has fixed this bug already.

The Ugly:

Jordan's Tequila Face