The team behind atom (developer of hashcat and oclhashcat) did a really great job at the hash cracking contest of korelogic wich took place last weekend at the Defcon 2010 in Las Vegas. The contest started on Friday 09:00 PST and held the teams under pressure the next 48h. After the first day team hashcat submitted about 20k hashes and there force hurried far ahead each other team. They managed to keep the advance by showing much creativity and flexibility to get their 38576 points wich and leaded to the first place.
congrats team hashcat!
https://contest.korelogic.com/team_hashcat.html
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/backtrack/crack-me-if-you-can-defcon-2010-password-cracking-challenge/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdUdCNJ901k
http://hashcat.net