I Want My Olympics Too

I thought, in the spirit of the Olympics and all, that I’d write a post about the Olympics. But, obviously I wanted to throw a new twist on it. I’m not going to talk about the current Olympics in Beijing. Instead my curiosity lies in the fact that no other field has the equivalent, that I’m aware of. Why is it that athletes have a venue to compete in every X number of years such that they are awarded medals and the likes?

Maybe it is that we compete daily for survival in the world. Companies go head to head in an attempt to stay in business. Obviously I’ve over-dramatized it, but beyond this is there any competition setup similarly?

The reason I ask this question is because competition is healthy. What if we had an IT Olympics? What would it involve? Black hat vs. white hat, windows vs. linux, etc.? I’m just trying to entertain the idea.

What do you think?