Israel has had its own version called &quot;codeguru extreme&quot; that&#x27;s been going on for the last 11 years.
The rules are significantly different, but the idea and inspiration is from core wars.
(Sorry, hebrew only: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeguru.co.il&#x2F;xtreme&#x2F;about.htm" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.codeguru.co.il&#x2F;xtreme&#x2F;about.htm</a>)<p>It&#x27;s sponsored by IBM, A large Israeli college, A technological high school chain - And Several Israeli Technological Military Units (Air force, Communications, Cyber).
So yeah, that&#x27;s probably a really good indicator you might be on to something.