CS Games
CS Games is a computer science competition hosted by a different university in Canada annually. The competition typically attracts more than 30 teams (between 6 and 10 members per team) from colleges from across North America, but primarily from Canada and northeastern United States. It is open to students majoring in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering and related fields.
The events are primarily focused on computer programming and socials aspects, but also include other competitions such as web design and sports.
2008 EDition
In 2008, the CS Games will be hosted by University of Sherbrooke in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The next edition of the competition will take place from March 7 to 9th, 2008. All the details are available at http://csgames.org/
2007 edition
In 2007, the CS Games were hosted by McGill University in Montreal, Quebec (Canada).
2006 edition
In 2006, the CS Games were hosted by École de Technologie Supérieure in Montreal, Quebec (Canada). The competition was held between March 3rd and 5th 2006.
Video presentation of the event
A short film showing memorable moments of the week-end has been released on Google Video.
Overall Results
Here are the overall competition results of this year competitions.
Rank |
Team Number |
University |
Team Name |
Current Score/100 |
1 |
20 |
University of Rochester |
Leeroy Jenkins |
67.49 |
2 |
10 |
McMaster University |
Team Blue Screen of Death |
62 |
3 |
14 |
École de technologie supérieure |
GofTen |
61.92 |
4 |
24 |
Polytechnique |
Divide-and-Conquer |
61.51 |
5 |
7 |
Université de Montréal |
Code wookies |
59.48 |
6 |
30 |
Université de Sherbrooke |
C+US |
58.52 |
7 |
18 |
Carleton University |
The Family Learning Channel |
58.37 |
8 |
31 |
Université de Sherbrooke |
USherbr0x |
57.66 |
9 |
13 |
McGill University |
Delete |
57.56 |
10 |
16 |
Concordia University |
++Concordia |
54.43 |
11 |
3 |
McGill University |
Ctrl |
53.49 |
12 |
9 |
Université du Québec en Outaouais |
Geek Squad |
53.05 |
13 |
17 |
Concordia University |
Concordia++ |
52.43 |
14 |
11 |
Université Laval |
NullPointerException |
50.64 |
15 |
12 |
Queen's University |
Kernel Panic and Her Buffer Underruns |
50.43 |
16 |
8 |
Dalhousie and St. Mary's Universities |
The Delta Force |
50.29 |
17 |
6 |
Polytechnique |
Triple Hex |
49.86 |
18 |
4 |
McGill University |
ALT |
49.38 |
19 |
35 |
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi |
Chicoutimi Damacy |
49.02 |
20 |
19 |
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières / SUNY Brockport |
Code Team / Brockport CPS Eagles |
48.89 |
21 |
28 |
University of Guelph |
U of G |
47.92 |
22 |
23 |
University of Ottawa |
CSSA |
47.9 |
23 |
26 |
Memorial University of Newfoundland |
MUN |
47.37 |
24 |
22 |
Université du Québec à Chicoutimi |
We Love Chicoutimi |
45.63 |
25 |
2 |
Université du Québec à Rimouski |
UQAR |
44.25 |
26 |
29 |
École de technologie supérieure |
Garbage Collectors |
43.02 |
27 |
32 |
Queen's University |
Queen's Continuum |
41 |
28 |
25 |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
RIT Tigers |
40.25 |
29 |
21 |
Laurentian University |
Frosty Bytes |
40.06 |
30 |
33 |
Rochester Institute of Technology |
RIT Tigers 2 |
36.17 |
31 |
15 |
Clarion University of PA |
Clarion Zombies |
35.42 |
32 |
34 |
Queen's University |
Super Troopers |
34.35 |
33 |
1 |
Brock University |
Big McLarge Huge |
33.84 |
Individual competitions
The overall was the result of the individual competitions as follow:
- Artificial intelligence 13%
- The Challenge 12%
- Team software engineering 10%
- Assembly 6%
- Xtreme Programming 8%
- Web Design 8%
- Debugging 8%
- Algorithm 6%
- Gaming 6%
- Scavenger Hunt 6%
- Sports 6%
- Scripthink Big 6%
- Participation 6%
- Final Group Game 6%
Previous competition winners
- CS Games 2007 (hosted by McGill University) - University of Rochester
- CS Games 2006 (hosted by École de technologie supérieure) - University of Rochester
- CS Games 2005 (hosted by Université Laval) - École de Technologie Supérieure
- CS Games 2004 (hosted by McGill University) - McGill University
- CS Games 2003 (hosted by McGill University) - New York University (NYU)
2007 Industry Sponsors
Flash Out videos
One of CS Games' greatest tradition is the presentation of Flash Out videos from each participating universities at the opening ceremonies. Flash out videos from preceding competitions are available on Google Video.
Funny Facts
2006 Edition:
- A participant vomited on the laptop of another participant of his team. This resulted in the complete disassembly of the laptop, a washing with a toothbrush and a dead keyboard.