/dev/null/nethack tournament

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The /dev/null/nethack tournament is "probably" the longest running gaming tournament on the Internet, having run every November since 1999. The tournament's main website is at http://nethack.devnull.net/. It runs from midnight Pacific Time (PDT with the new extended Daylight Savings Time in the USA), 1 November (Halloween night) until midnight PT, 1 December.

During this time, players compete for a wide range of trophies ranging from simple stars for reaching in-game goals shy of ascension to trophies for impressive multi-ascension feats.

The competition is in vanilla nethack, with custom patches applied to provide a new optional "challenge" each year. The old challenges (going back to 2005) are all available. The new challenge's identity is kept secret to make things more interesting for the players.

2008

The 2008 tournament is currently in progress.

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