A quick interview by the IRISnet Team about Game of Zones by: Daniela Pavin

By Cosmos Network Family and Friends | Cosmos Network | 14 Jun 2020

Daniela Pavin interviewed IRISnet Team about the experience in Game of Zones.

Daniela: The team submitted constant code revisions, pull requests, updates of the Visualizer and even an IBC version of the Rainbow wallet. How did the team manage to simultaneously work on so many things during Game of Zones?

IRISnet Devs: In order to work effectively in each of these fields you mentioned, our team was split into 3 teams (Adversarial competition, Rainbow-GoZ Wallet, and GoZ Network State Visualizer). Thanks to this, each of us has been able to focus on our work and put all of ourselves into the task without interruption and in a completely autonomous way.

Daniela: Game of Zones, like the Game of Stake a year ago, is designed to test not only the code but also the teams participating in the competition. It seems obvious that this competition led to impressive technical improvements in a very short time, many creative use cases and incubated teams that are now familiar with using the IBC module and running the relayer.

What are your thoughts on this? Which things did you find the most challenging and what was the most exciting thing about the competition?

IRISnet Devs: Game of Zones is a global game that lasts for 3 weeks. Participants come from different time zones and there may be various temporary situations happening in this game, so it requires us to highly focus our attention, to keep thinking. It’s definitely a huge challenge.

Because the amount of data and the load carried by each node of GoZ Hub is very large, ensuring that our program can run stably was a huge challenge.

At the same time, in order to compete with various excellent teams, we needed to find ways to optimize our tools to obtain a better ranking. This was a very exciting challenge for us. If you want to see in-depth the tools we used during the competition, we have made open source our command-line tool!

Daniela: All the work and time invested have only one ambitious final goal: the advent of IBC. What are your final thoughts about Game of Zones and what do you think is the next step forward?

IRISnet Devs: Game of Zones was a very good opportunity to participate in learning to use the IBC protocol and the relayer. In the competition, we competed with many excellent teams. We saw many excellent strategies and ideas and learned a lot.

We do hope Game of Zones will build a solid foundation for the establishment and improvement of the whole Cosmos ecosystem.

Conclusion

Thanks to the IRISnet Team, who kindly summarized the key events, the history, and the work behind their participation in the Game of Zones.

Despite being very reserved and humble about their achievements, I must acknowledge their willingness to put in the extra effort and strive for excellence even in situations that may be unexpected.

Congratulations to IRISnet and all the teams who participated in the Game of Zones, bringing talent, innovation and squad spirit!
In this competition the real victory, the one given by the commitment to a common goal, belongs to all of us!

Resources

https://blog.cosmos.network/a-tale-of-game-of-zones-irisnet-6c1813e2eb7f

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