Winners!

It is our pleasure to announce the winners of the contests!

Cartoon Caption Contest

Below are the finalists and winner (in bold) of the cartoon caption contests. The winners were voted on at the business meeting. Thanks to everyone who submitted a caption!

  • “For the xxii'th time, Marcus, n is not a number!”

    • Lars Rohwedder

  • Byzantine (dis?)agreement in linear time

    • “Hey, I tried”

  • "I am thinking of something like separate and subjugate, but we can decide on the name later...”

    • Baris Can Esmer

  • “Have you heard Rudolf grew an odd cycle?”

    • Francisco Pernice

  • We then extend our algorithm to the natural case of constant moosewidth

    • Lars Rohwedder

  • Alice: "Stop eating so much gelato, you should be worried about your treewidth."

  • Bob: "It's fine, I stay fit by cycling.”

    • Greg Rosenthal


Reverse Cartoon Caption Contest: "When in Rome..."

"When in Rome..." -Orr Fischer

"When in Rome/ExpanderTown..." -Inbar Ben Yaacov

"When in Rome..." -Lars Rohwedder (submitted as a block of TikZ code!)


Honorable mention for the cartoon caption contest goes to Mahdi Cheraghchi, who used DALLE-2 to generate many quite good captions and even a cartoon!

Puzzles

Thanks to everyone who worked on any of the puzzles! The meta-prize goes to both Thore Hosfeldt and Chris Jones for their fantastic puzzles!

Scavenger Hunt

Congratulations to the winning team STOCAvengers! Their complete solution to the scavenger hunt included this excellent picture!

Ceremony

Some photos of the Prize Ceremony, held during the STOC Business Meeting: