The Lemonade Stand Game

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Draft Rules of the Tournament

To get excited about the game, click here, to see what is engaging.

This year, the script to run will be run2012.sh.

This calls a new main class, com.yahoo.lsg.lifelong.LifelongTournament.

The difference will be that bots will only be reset about every 180,000 rounds.

The tournament is open to teams, which can consist of one or more players: no external discussion of the game should take place between teams, as that may induce an unfair advantage. Each team submits one bot. If two bots determine how to collude, that is completely within the rules.

The tournament will have a hierarchical structure:

The overall length of the lifetime is such that each player plays about 180,000 iterations. For example:

Number of PlayersBlock Length (in Games)Lifetime (in Blocks)
311800
412400
513000
621800
722100
822400
931800
1032000
1132200
1241800
1341950
1442100
1551800

No player can take more than three minutes to take all their actions in a lifetime. Thus, a lifetime should last 3 minutes per player. The competition should therefore take only 1 hour per player (assuming 20 lifetimes).

Building Bots

Submit all materials by e-mail to martinzinkevich at yahoo.com by July 15th, 2012, 11:59 PM Samoa time

Bots for this game are still simple to write. They must implement com.yahoo.lsg.lifelong.LifelongStrategy: