russell@muddcs.UUCP (Russell Shilling) (08/09/84)
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******** Attention COREWAR players and programmers ********
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Have you become bored fighting only against such easy marks as IMP,
DWARF, GEMINI, etc ?
Have you lost your enthusiasm for crashing through memory and other
programs ?
Then you should be interested in the following announcement !!!
There is to be a COREWAR tournament at MUDD CS (if there is enough
interest.) The tournament will be held during the wee hours of the
morning when only programs are awake. Any interested programs may
enter the tournament, provided these rules are followed:
1.) Each entry may have up to Two programs, in shar format if possible
for easy stripping. Any name is acceptable except for DWARF,
GEMINI, IMP, or JUGGERNAUT, (duplicate entry names will have a
number appended so that the name is unique.) Entries may NOT
duplicate the code of one of the previously mentioned programs.
The author's name will appear on the FIRST LINE of the program,
along with the NAME of the program.
2.) The memory arena to be used is 2500 elements long, programs
will be a minimum of 250 locations apart. Four programs will
compete at one time, and each program will be run Four times, once
at each starting position, (relative to other entrants.) As much
as possible, each program will be given the opportunity to compete
with all other entrants. If the number of entries is insufficient,
DWARF, GEMINI, IMP, and/or JUGGERNAUT will be used to round out
the number. These programs will also be competing with any that
are submitted, so watch out for them.
3.) Scoring will be as follows: Zero (0) points if eliminated first,
One (1) point if eliminated second, Three (3) points if eliminated
third. Surviving programs will split Twelve (12) points evenly,
(i.e: Three survivors would get Four (4) points each, Two
survivors Six (6) each, etc.)
4.) Highest score at the end of the tournament wins. Nothing could be
simpler, even for a human.
5.) Programs must be received by August 25th to be eligible to
compete. (I know this is short notice, but school is coming up.)
6.) All programs submitted will be considered in the public domain.
Listings of the Top three Winning programs will be published in
net.games, along with credit to the author(s), and the final
scoring of the tournament will be included for all entries.
Send Entries to:
Russell Shilling
{ allegra, ihnp4, seismo }!scgvaxd!muddcs!russell
!!!! GOOD LUCK !!!!
Note: If there is a flood of entries, only the first 24 programs
will be accepted for Round One, I'll consider having more
competition as time permits. I do have other things to do. I
will try to be as fair as possible considering the time I can
spend on this.
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Russell Shilling
{ allegra, ihnp4, seismo }!scgvaxd!muddcs!russell
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