2024
Grand Prize Winner: Cody Travis | Report
Best Technical Answer: James Mar | Report
Best Creative Answer that is Technically Correct: Ben K. | Report
Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy (ESNET) Award: David (0xDF) | Report
Honorable Mentions
Adam Jenkins
Aerin Stamps
Alun Jones
Amara
AMHOUCHE
Amy Merriman
Annah Waggoner
Arin Lee
Basem Samarah
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Brian Carrick
Bryan Williams
Calle Svensson
cano32
Chance
Cindy Wu
CyberSmyth
Dale Fay
Dale Perkel
Davide Capasso Barbato
Devesh Mitra
DongHo Kim
Elisa
Elli
Guanhan Chew
Helen W
James Coffey
John Keller
Jose Manuel Martinez Mejia
Ken Clark
Kory Kliner
Krzysztof Balas
Ladhawala
Lily
Lucia Morandi
Mantas Gavenas
Marcus Weber
Misha
Mitch Darrow
Nathan Turnbull
Nour Mohamed
Oisin Martin
Oliver Michels
Paul Edwards
Pranav Arora
Priscilla L.
PunIntended
Rich Alexander
Shahne
Tad Jones
Ulf Skoglund
Yaron King
Super Honorable Mentions
Andrea Lamonato
Bernhard Griener
Cynthia Dueltgen
Dan LaLone
Dan O'Connor
David Szili
Giuseppe Saturno
Guillermo Lafuente
James Baldacchino
Joerg Schwarzwälder
Justin Paglerani
Kim Penrose
Maik de Kruif
Michael Benedetti
Matthew Furtado
Nick DeBaggis
Nicklas Alexander Scheel
Philip Naida
Roger Johnsen
Tom van der Velden
Tomoomi Iwata
Xhelal Likaj2023
Grand Prize Winner: Jai Minton | Report
Best Technical Answer: Bernard Griener | Report
Runner-Up: Michael Benedetti | Report
Best Creative Answer that is Technically Correct: Gabriel Quiroz | Report
Runner-Up: Erez C | Report
Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy (ESNET) Award: Forbytten | Report
Super Honorable Mentions:
James Baldacchino
Michael Benedetti
Brian Carrick
Adam Coirazza
Darkander
Andy Davies
Brian Davidson
Guillermo Lafuente
Andrea Lamonato
David Forsythe
Matthew Furtado
Roger Johnsen
Suppawej Kerdphol & Nuttakorn Dhiraprayudti
Steven Maestas
Philip Naida
Marco Parello
Dale Perkel
Giuseppe Saturno
Shahne
David Szili
Lukasz Sztukowski
Cody Travis
Alex Trylysenko
Thomas XM
Honorable Mentions:
Orin ag
Rich Alexander
Murat Cakir
RCarras
Ken Clark/Rachel Clark
Jeff Davies
Brian DeBaggis
Kai-Th. Dusold
Rob Freeman
LethalHack
Tomoomi Iwata
Daniel Kaufmann
Kory Kliner
Dan LaLone
Arin Lee
Lassi Lehtinen
Miguel Llamazares
James Mar
John Matczak
Mark Mulvaney
Munch
Akira Nishikawa
Dan O'Connor
Michael Odom
Jordan Porcella
Brad Priller
Dan Roberts
Joerg Schwarzwaelder
Kristof Tamas
Helen W
Bryan Williams
2022
- Grand Prize Winner: David Forsythe (0xdf) (David’s Answer: https://0xdf.gitlab.io/holidayhack2022/) (who in 2021 won Best Technical Answer)
- Most Creative Answer: Joel Tan (Joel’s Answer: https://www.canva.com/design/DAFVRs-Lqaw/SuWk3toe0BfFN2r5U1iTpA/view?utm_content=DAFVRs-Lqaw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=sharebutton) (who created an animated story based on the challenge, and won runner-up Most Creative Answer in 2021)
- Runner-Up Most Creative Answer: Brenda van Rensburg
Runner-Up Most Creative Answer: Dan O'Connor
- Best Technical Answer (Tie): Mike Shirley (Mike’s Answer: SANS_HHC2022-writeup_MShirley - Michael Shirley.pdf)
- Best Technical Answer (Tie): Jai Minton (Jai's Answer: https://www.jaiminton.com/HHC/2022/) (who won best creative answer in 2021)
Runner-Up Best Technical Answer: Nivedan Rajasekar
- Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy Award (Tie): Thomas Bouve (Thomas’ Answer: https://n00.be/HolidayHackChallenge2022/)
- Extra Special Noteworthy Exemplary Trophy Award (Tie): Joerg Schwarzwaelder (Joerg’s Answer: https://github.com/joergschwarzwaelder/hhc2022 and Santa’s Data Lake: https://joergschwarzwaelder.github.io/Santas-DataLake.html)
Super Honorable Mentions:
James Baldacchino
R. Bastiaans
Michael Benedetti
Duncan Brickner
Pedro Cabral
Craig Campbell
Alberto Certo
Brian Davidson
Paul DeCamp
Jonahlyn Gilstrap-Oskay
Ashish Gupta
Elaine Hung
Roger Johnsen
Jay Johnson
Divyateja Kasula
Suppawej Kerdphol
Mitch Kerle
Kusuwada
Dan LaLone
Andrea Lamonato
YW Lee
Lassi Lehtinen
Marcel M.
Steven Maestas
James Mar
Wade Matistic
Shelby Medina
Dale Perkel
Gabriel Quiroz
Dan Roberts
Juan Romero
Chris Ruggieri
Charles Sanders
Karthick Siva
Joerg Schwarzwaelder
Jason Sosnowski
David Szili
Cody Travis
Dolf Visscher
Justin Wylie
Shahne (Zysygy)
Honorable Mentions:
Marcus Andersson
Pranav Arora
Jeff Beazley
Himadri Bhattacharjee
Blake Bourgeois
David Brochhaus
Brian Carrick
Ken/Rachel Clark
Ádám Csörnyei
Brian DeBaggis
Wendy Edwards
shahaf el
Alexandra Gomez
Charles Goodling
Christopher Henseler
Rene Holt
Hu83fby
Tomoomi Iwata
Alisya K
Nick Kantor
Joe Kattner
Yaron King
Nikhil Kumar
Arin Lee
Lucia Morandi
Akira Nishikawa
Charlie Retzler
Julien Richard
Javier Santos
Giuseppe Saturno
Gage Saunders
Matt Simmons
Glyn Snowden
Lukasz Sztukowski
Norihisa Takagi
Helen Wright
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forbytten
Ben (Darkander)
2021
- Grand Prize Winner: Thomas Bouve (Thomas's Answer)
(who in 2020 won Best Technical Answer) - Most Creative Answer: Jai Minton (Jai's Answer)
(who created a 3D video game based on the Holiday Hack Challenge itself) - Runner-Up Most Creative Answer: Joel Tan
- Best Technical Answer: David Forsythe (David's Answer)
- Runner-Up Best Technical Answer: Roger Johnsen
Honorable Mentions:
- Fabian Andre
- Pranshu Bajpai
- Barbie
- Jeff Beazley
- Mike Boyle
- Adam Coirazza
- CosmicHitman
- Michael Deibert
- Hack3dlazy
- Wendy Edwards
- eucrates
- Simon Roses Femerling
- William Fleisher
- geospider
- Bernhard Griener
- Christopher Henseler
- Tomoomi Iwata
- JariR
- janusz jasinski
- Anand Kanani
- Daniel Kaufmann
- Mitch Kerle
- yaron king
- Akvile Kiskis
- Pinja Koskinen
- Laura
- Link
- lolkatz
- Steven Maestas
- Patrick Malter
- Darryl Miles
- minispooner
- Mark Mulvaney
- Jason Navarrete
- Sven Bursch-Osewold
- Sebastian Perez
- Nivedan Rajasekar
- Chris Ruggieri
- Michael S
- Giuseppe Saturno
- Johann Schnagl
- Adam Snedden
- Glyn Snowden
- Stefan Soto
- Calle Svensson
- David Szili
- defyp and unikbyte
- Clayton VanTol
- Bryan Williams
- Lee Chong Yu
Super Honorable Mentions:
- Anand Kanani
- James Baldacchino
- R. Bastiaans
- Walter Belgers
- Michael Benedetti
- Olivier Bettan
- Blake Bourgeois
- Mike Boyle
- Brian Carrick
- Alberto Certo
- Matthew Ciantar
- Walid Daboubi
- Brian Davidson
- Paul DeCamp
- Nuttakorn Dhiraprayudti
- Miroslav Dimitrov
- eldiridge
- Jacob Elliott
- Jeshua Erickson
- fatsheep
- Dan Fedele
- Matthew Furtado
- John Goff
- ASHISH GUPTA
- Michael Hertrick
- Joe Kattner
- Nikola Knežević
- Ben Krueger
- kusuwada
- Xhelal Likaj
- George Mantakos
- Pasi Mäntynen
- James Mar
- Daniela Mariaschi and Massimo Mariaschi
- Wade Matistic
- Yannick Méheut
- Devesh Mitra
- Dan O'Connor
- Kyle Parrish
- Dale Perkel
- Dickson Quek
- Dan Roberts
- Shahne Rodgers
- Julian Runnels
- Jeroen Schijvenaars
- Jörg Schwarzwälder
- Mo Sharif
- Mike Shirley
- Matt Simmons
- Jason Sosnowsk
- Nate Thornton
- Cody Travis
- Justin Wylie
- Grand Prize Winner: Thomas Bouve (Thomas's Answer)
2020
- Grand Prize Winner: Stanislav Nurilov
- Most Creative Answer: Jeremy Phillips
- Runner-Up Most Creative Answer: Mark Mulvaney and Mike Boyle
- Best Technical Answer: Thomas Bouve
- Runner-Up Best Technical Answer: Neal Eikenberry and Janusz Jasinski
- Grand Prize Winner: Stanislav Nurilov
