The Duel Is Complete!

December 27th, 2006

Winner's Trophy

Congratulations to Jonathan Grynspan, winner of the Holiday Cocoa Duel! Jonathan's entry Snowplane generated $469.57 in charitable donations to Child's Play in six days. And all of this is for an app that Jonathan had just three days to create!

Not too shabby, Jonathan!

But even more important than charity is beer. :) With his maddd Cocoa-fu programming skillzzz, Jonathan has earned $20 worth of beer (or some other gift of the same value) from each of the other developers who've taken part in the duel (and one organizer who never got around to writing an app). I guess we know who's going to have a Happy New Years!

Congratulations to everyone who has participated! This has been a very, very fun charity drive, and it couldn't have happened without all of your hard work. And more importantly, we've generated $2381.43 of charitable donations in six days!

And last but not least, even though the duel is done, you can always still donate to the developer's charities. There was actually one person who donated $50 to every developer's charity rather than just picking one. That's some pretty serious class right there...

Posted by Jason Harris

10 Responses to “The Duel Is Complete!”

  1. Thank you very much. :) The response has been terrific, and I'd like to thank each and every donor. I'd especially like to thank the two donors who each gave over $200 in individual donations, as well as the aforementioned donor who gave $50 to each participant (that's $650!) I hope we can do this again next year.
    Posted by Jonathan Grynspan on December 27th, 2006 at 12:57 PM
  2. Awesome - though I missed your app, Jason. That's quite a good response, and I look forward to participating next year. :)
    Posted by Step on December 27th, 2006 at 07:55 PM
  3. I missed my app, too! :)
    Posted by Jason Harris on December 27th, 2006 at 08:17 PM
  4. Dude, is there a reason we have to wait until next year for another competiton? We can do one for Valentine's Day! And maybe this time we can have more time to actually get apps out and whatnot. Let me know if you're interested in working this out Jason!
    Posted by Ernest Liu on December 28th, 2006 at 01:37 AM
  5. Congrats on a fun contest. Now might be time to mention http://ironcoder.org/ - we've been running contests like Cocoaduel for the last year or thereabouts. It would be great if Ironcoder and Cocoaduel were to join forces.
    Posted by Jonathan Wight on December 28th, 2006 at 06:12 AM
  6. That tree trophy terrifies me.
    Posted by Jonathan Grynspan on December 28th, 2006 at 09:41 PM
  7. I know, it may jump out and eat you!
    Posted by Ernest Liu on December 28th, 2006 at 10:21 PM