ALM Works Summit competition top prize winners

If you were among the courageous Starfleet recruits who took on the asteroid storm at ALM Works' booth during the 2013 Atlassian Summit in San Francisco, you'll probably recognize this:

Heroic poses were the order of the day

In case you don't recognise the picture up there, Starfleet was an asteroid shooting game we played at our booth during the Summit, and those are our three highest-ranking winners. The game was part of an overall space theme inspired by our long-running online Structure demo, which is based around an imaginary Mars colonization project.

Our courageous Starfleet crew members battled a relentless onslaught of asteroids in their quest to earn the coveted title of Supreme Fleet Admiral. The winners took away awesome space-themed prizes ranging from Moon rocks to a model Mars rover.

The top seven prize winners are listed below:

The full scoreboard and hall of fame are available for your browsing pleasure. Thanks to all of you for taking part and being fantastically good sports.

Supreme Fleet Admiral Michael's heroic efforts will go down in the annals of Starfleet history as the most spectacular asteroid annihilation rampage ever.

The mysterious space thing on the t-shirts

If you've been out and about in your giveaway t-shirt from ALM Works, you've probably been asked at least once what the mysterious blueprint design is.

Be prepared to explain your t-shirt to random strangers

It's Mars 1, a Soviet-built unmanned interplanetary craft that was launched towards the Red Planet in 1962. The last transmission received on Earth was made at a distance of around 106 million kilometres from the USSR.

Although it didn't quite fulfil its science mission of buzzing low over Mars and sending back pictures of the planet's surface, it still represents a tremendous feat of engineering, and it's still out there somewhere.