well, I didn’t win exactly – the real winners of the Scripting Games 2012 are Lido Paglia in the Beginner category and Rohn Edwards in the Advanced Category. Congratulations! This was not so easily to accomplish since a few challenges were a little tough and it was a fierce competion which several hundred submissions for each challenge I finished somewhere in the upper third part with a lot of room for improvement for next years competition. The best advice I can give to anyone who is not happy with his results or wants to take part next year for the first time: Read the challenge carefully, ask questions and keep your scripts simple and well structured. Simple solutions are always the best ones. And don’t forget the comments.
But why was I thinking that I won? Simple, since the Scripting Games follow the “Olympic idea” everyone who submitted 10 scripts is a winner. She or he will probably have learnt a lot about PowerShell and it was fun and also challenging. Writing scripts day in and day out is one thing but having your own scripts jugded by the best PowerShell experts in the world is a big thrill because it shows how good you really are.
I would like to thank everyone who made this event possible (I know that a lot of people put a lot of work, time and passion into making this probably the “biggest scripting event in history) and I am really looking forward to Scripting Games 2013.