The document discusses IEEEXtreme 5.0, an international programming competition that took place from October 22nd to 23rd, 2011. Over 755 teams from 50 countries participated in the competition, representing a 54% growth from the previous year. Prizes included an all-expense paid trip to an IEEE conference for the top team, as well as netbook computers for the second and third place teams. The competition was managed by a small core team of volunteers and staff and used 13 servers on Amazon cloud to run the judging system.