Lightning contest (I)

We have now run the first elimination round for the lightning contest. There were 80 entries in total.

PuntTV

You can now watch replays of all the test games on PuntTV.

Bad punters

As a preprocessing step we removed all entries that were incapable of scoring anything at all on our simplest test map: lambda.json, even if they moved first.

Some teams did not implement the handshake. Given that it was not present in the original (slightly buggy) version of the spec, we wrote a small wrapper that still enabled those teams to compete.

The following 28 teams were unable to score anything on the lambda map.

Adlersprung

A Storm Of Minds

chirimenjako

code-o-matic

d4o

DNIWE :: a

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Goto11

JODY HiGHROLLERS

Junk Food

kstm.org

lambda-llama

Leonardone @ NEETSDKASU

LILiK

masakt

MIPT Lambda

ome

perpertuum mobile

powder

?!?

Sideways Spider

sonna*baka*na

Sunspear

TBD

The Cat is #1!!

The Flux Ambassadors

The Pragmatic Russians

Turing Machinists

They are now eliminated from the lightning round.

One team (cashto) was able to score on the lambda map when futures are disabled but not when enabled. Another team (negainoido) was able to score on the lambda map when futures were enabled but not when disabled.

Calculating the scores

For the first round we used five small maps (with between 60 and 187 rivers) both with and without futures enabled. Every game was played with 4 teams.

For each map a random assignment was performed and for each group of four players, four games were played on that map (in order to allow each player to start first, second, third, and fourth). Thus each team (with the exception of cashto and negainoido) played a total of 40 games.

For each group, the sum of the scores for each player in that group over the four games was calculated in order to obtain a ranking. Points were then awarded based on the ranking (1st: 4 points, 2nd: 3 points, 3rd: 2 points, 4th: 1 point).

The total number of points for each team was calculated by taking the sum of the points for each group they played in. So the maximum possible number of points was 40 and the minimum number was 10 (with the exception of cashto and negainoido, who only played in five groups each).

The results

Team Points Score The $ound of .\ 37 107032 Unagi 37 98292 CDT 37 73978 kontur.ru 36 58544 AIM Tech 35 77431 THIRTEEN 34 67929 All your lambda are belong to us 34 64787 fixstars 33 125126 ゲームセンターYAGI 31 71386 NCPLUG 31 59810 jabber.ru 31 26633 Frictionless Bananas 30 57292 This is an albatrocity! 30 51764 DrunkAlexSh 30 38780 Udon 29 51955 zeta 29 51832 Eger a Marson 29 35411 DiamondPrincess 28 51382 GennAI 28 49476 The Blind Hen 28 39045 master_thesis 28 38542 Popes who died violently 28 33968 SpiritRaccoons 28 27625 O Caml, My Caml 27 31072 uni 27 17664 Stifinderne 26 46236 trup16 25 49198 foosbar 25 48692 Skobochka 25 38338 Sirius Cybernetics Corporation 25 37481 SML/Punter 24 51019 Piggybank Software 24 33734 BargeHauler 23 33251 uguu.org 23 12276 Sampou 22 27370 Enoch Root 21 67656 SKI 21 14903 Olympia 21 9062 Love and Lies 21 4465 301 19 12300 cvnm 19 8540 paiv 18 4082 Go-TEAMPLOWULTRAFORCE5Fox1 16 2506 WinterMUTE 15 2721 YukashitaOu 14 906 okeydaj 13 1770 WILD BASHKORT MAGES 13 294 shinh11 12 -2735 blueiris 11 3208 Lambada Calculus 11 160 negainoido 9 8174 cashto 6 67

The median number of points is 25.5. Any team with a points total below 25.5 is now eliminated from the lightning contest.

Interestingly, there is not a direct correlation between aggregate score and aggregate points. For instance, the team with the highest aggregate score (fixstars) is the team with the 8th highest aggregate points. Team shinh11 deserves special mention for being the biggest (and worst) gamblers.