So we know for next time, how strong are other people's feelings on this?
But I might have felt differently if I hadn't finished...
More people learning & having fun is better. IMO people only complain about the extended deadline because of its effect on the rankings.
The scoring system was an interesting addition over CTF2, but it also created these complaints and silliness like people submitting the same code repeatedly to get the best score possible.
It may have been better to only tell players what broad percentile group they're in. There would still be an incentive to write faster code, without the frustration of being edged out of position #20 because someone else's submission was (arbitrarily) scored a few points higher.
Btw, I agree that the scoring needs to be consistent or less coarse grained (percentiles) so that people don't submit thousands of attempts to get the max out of their solution...
That being said, I think you guys picked a hard CTF concept this time but I LOVED PLAYING. Thank you Greg and everyone else at Stripe that contributed!
If you move, commit to another firm deadline, not to a fuzzy, never know when it'll be done one, that's awful for planning and only increases stress.