Society for the Discontinuation of Game On

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I love the discussion of making a new event that was going on in this thread, but it seems like it's died out recently. Is anyone here actually working on putting together a concept for a Programming Problem Solving event or planning on doing it over the summer? If so, I'd love to help in any way possible; if not, I suppose I will get started on it!

Do you know anyone qualified to be national supervisor of the event? If so, someone needs to get in touch with him or her to get the ball rolling. I personally do not know too much about programming events, but I could help write provisional rules if needed.

I know a couple people, but I haven't personally reached out to them and I doubt that any of them would be willing to do it given how busy they are. Also, I feel like crowdsourcing the ideas for this event would show to NSO that the event we are making is backed by the science olympiad community.

On a slightly different note, here's my current idea on how such an event could be run. It would be two parts - one being a written test on general compsci topics (stuff like syntax, boolean algebra, and programming concepts that would give the competitors specific things to study while also giving the proctor room to write tests based on what they know best) and the other being questions meant to be solved with code. This can be problems like UIL Compsci test or Project Euler, and the score is based off of both how many problems are solved correctly and how efficient the code is (i.e. how many lines of code). That way, there is something for both partners to work on, assuming this is a 2 person event. Those are just some really rough ideas that have been floating around in my head recently; what does scioly think? Also, do you think formulating this new event justifies making a new thread?

I can help. Code is awesome!