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Sadly, the International Obfuscated C Code Contest has not been held in the past 3 years, the last one being the 27th IOCCC from 2020 [1].

Looking forward to seeing more editions in the future, and submitting another entry myself...

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2020

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They seem to be re-organizing the website structure [1] as well as updating the submitting system [2], and lately they were making some progress [3], but still need a lot of formatting work.

[1] https://github.com/ioccc-src/temp-test-ioccc [2] https://github.com/ioccc-src/mkiocccentry [3] https://fosstodon.org/@ioccc/112023138011006567

There are currently only two active maintainers. I guess any help is welcome.

Seems like they are stretched a bit thin, and no doubt this is a hobby project.

This is a great steelman for where dogfooding does not apply - imagine if their website was actually an obfuscated C webserver with the content imbedded in it, and therefore impossible to update lol.

I've been waiting for the competition to open up again, I think I have an entry good enough. There does appear to be some activity on their GitHub repo, but I have no idea when the next one will be. Does anyone here have any gossip about when the next one might be? Wild rumor would also suffice.

The biggest factor I think is that the judging process cannot be easily parallelized after the initial filtering and traditionally needed multiple in-person judging sessions---there are several photos in the official Twitter account. (2020 judges didn't meet in person for the obvious reason, but still used conference calls.)

another casualty of the covid era, I assume /s

Not sure why the /s, it seems like a plausible contributing factor.

really? But isn't it an entirely online contest?

The humans who run online events still exist in the physical world.

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