PHD hashrunner 2013

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But this time the organizers tried to solve the problem with a different approach: It was by not using real-life passwords but instead they created password "pattern". Such patterns have been seen in the past as well but this contest was all about it.

I don't like to search for pattern. This passwords are not realistic. I prefer more realistic passwords instead of the pattern search & brute game.

Organizers failed to organize

This is true. It took them so long to announce times/date. The site looks like a 5 min project. It looks like they didn't really care about hashrunner contest. If you compared it to others (for example cmiyc) you will see they put much more time in the contest than phd/hashrunner does. The site is up months before the contest starts and it looks like they put more time and effort in the password creation. I hope they will hold the contest again next year and put more time in it.