The best two submissions at this stage will be obfuscated, compiled and made available to all teams to benchmark against. The submission deadline is 9 AM, 21st January 2001. The technical details of submission are to be found in Section 4 of the detailed requirements . The top two submissions will also receive byes in the elimination rounds. Submissions will be compiled, and then played against one another automatically.
Contestants are free to inspect the process.
We will begin a process of elimination of teams to reduce the field to eight teams for the final live contest on January 30th. The submission deadline is 10 AM, 29th January 2001. The technical details of submission are to be found in Section 4 of the detailed requirements . The format of the elimination rounds is still being worked on. It will most probably involve double elimination.