I'm disappointed their judging environment is a single core. Multiple cores are becoming increasingly important these days, and with more and more functional languages supporting parallel programming, it's a shame that those languages won't be able to show off their full capabilities on this highly parallelizable task.
One team is livestreaming their work on a youtube live stream.<p>See this thread for the details: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/wgk0k/live_coding_icfp_contest_tomorrow_friday_1300_utc/" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/wgk0k/live_coding_icfp...</a>