"We need to go deeper"

Monday, April 4th was a momentous day for Westdale's programming team.

We achieved that day, what no one else was able to achieve.

Victory.

The scores are irrelevant; as are the details. All that matters is that a four man crew overcame all their opponents to seize victory.

Blazing through the start, with our resident prodigy finishing the first program in 10 minutes.
The next 2 hours of the 3 hour contest would involve me and Chung pretending to be useful, while Jack and STFU took turns being frustratedface at the lone computer we were permitted to use.

With 30 minutes left, our group had fallen to 5th place, and morale was low.
Then Jack finally finished the 3rd program he had been working on; our group excitedly called over the judges to grade the program, only to discover that it did not work!

Taking the input files from the judges, Jack went about fixing his program while the rest of us sat back and tried in a futile attempt to make sense of what the hell code Jack has actually written.

Still in utter confusion, Jack fixes his program and it is finally graded; the points are added to our total and we see that we have only moved up ONE place, being exactly 1 point under the 3rd place team.

Time passes; me and Chung continue to do nothing, Jack stands up and makes everyone feel short, and STFU is furiously raging at some bug in his program that he is unable to fix.

Time slowly runs out.
STFU stares at his code.

No sounds emanate from our table except the occasional "lol".

The critical moment approaches; STFU continues to work on the program.
Overcome by frustration STFU exclaims "WE NEED TO GO DEEPER!"

A single "lol" is allowed for this moment, but no more as the program must be finished.

One minute remains; the atmosphere is so heavy, Chung can't even get up to grab food anymore.
In a last ditch attempt to solve the problem, STFU types in a random line of code.
Run.
It works.

"LOL"

The judge marks down the time. 1:00pm. The exact moment the contest ends.

Suck it Westmount.

-tis Tommy

Edit: Our team name was the Intellectual Mavericks. Be jellies.