Last Thursday, 24 fearless integrators returned to the treacherous Lands of Ignition for the 2024 Build-a-Thon finalists challenge. Armed with their Ignition wisdom and accompanied by a friendly flying dragon, these competitors evaded a kraken, interacted with a magical tome, and solved a Sphinx’s riddles, amongst other incredible feats. This fantasy-themed challenge had adventure at every turn, and while everyone who participated successfully completed it, only two finished fast enough to make it to the next stage of the competition.
This map is of the Lands of Ignition, which competitors traversed throughout the course of 11 challenges.
As The Din Of Battle Fades, Two Noble Integrators Remain
We’d like to raise a goblet to toast the success of our two triumphant finalists, DMC, Inc., and BIJC Ltd., who proved their Ignition skills were the sharpest in all the land. DMC and BIJC will go on to compete live at the 2024 Build-a-Thon, which will take place on September 19 during the Ignition Community Conference (ICC) in Folsom, CA.
After the grueling finalists challenge had concluded, our final two competitors offered some parting words to their opponent:
“We wish you all the luck possible, except for maybe just a little bit less than us.” — BIJC
“We’re excited to meet you guys and looking forward to the challenge.” — DMC
Here’s the full leaderboard with the final times of all the competitors:
An Epic Quest Immortalized In The Scrolls Of History
We streamed the finalists challenge live, but if you weren’t able to make it to the virtual showdown you can view the replay on the Inductive Automation YouTube channel. And we’ll be making the challenge available to the public soon, in case you want to try it out and see how you would have fared. Sign up for our news feed via the form on the right so that you get the link to download the challenge when it’s available.
Screenshot from the Tree of Editions challenge
We want to offer our sincere gratitude to each and every one of our awesome Premier Integrators who participated in this challenge — we hope you had as much fun competing in it as we did hosting it. And thank you so much to everyone at Inductive Automation who poured their hard work and talent into making this event such a success. You outdid yourselves this year!
Screenshot from the Exchange Trading Post challenge
Who Shall Don The Orange Blazers Of Victory?
Be sure to grab your tickets to ICC before they sell out so that you can cheer on our brave finalists as they compete in the grand finale of the Build-a-Thon, the most entertaining industrial automation competition around. Kevin McClusky, Kent Melville, and I will be back again this year, ready to regale you with our comedic commentary and wise observations as these finalists attempt impressive feats of automation innovation with Ignition. We are busy readying ourselves for this year’s Build-a-Thon so that we can make it the best one ever — it will include an exciting new interactive element from Opto 22, along with deeper dives into each team’s project. You won’t want to miss it!
The stakes for this competition are high, with the honor of being crowned Build-a-Thon champion and receiving the coveted orange winner’s blazers on the line. We know DMC and BIJC will bring their “A” game and can’t wait to see what they will do on the big stage in September!
