2017 SpaceChem Tournament

Jun 01 - Jun 18 Antimony Mining (easy)

Jun 09 - Jun 25 7 or 8 (easy)

Jun 16 - Jul 02 Doping (easy)

Jun 23 - Jul 09 What a Waste (medium)

Jun 30 - Jul 16 Long Slog (medium)

Jul 07 - Jul 23 A/C without AGW (medium)

Jul 14 - Jul 30 Masochism (hard)

Jul 21 - Aug 06 Noble Fission (variable)

Jul 28 - Aug 13 Big Hex Grid (variable)

Aug 04 - Aug 20 Hilbert Curve (hard)

Scoring

Due Dates

[en.wikipedia.org]

Exploits

Links

[drive.google.com]

[spacechem.wikia.com]

Welcome to the 2017 SpaceChem Tournament. I, gggol, will be your host. Send your solutions to me at simpleeqbest@hotmail.com . Let's use SpagChem's excellent tool from the 2015 tournament.I'll post a new puzzle every week. You'll have a weekend and 2 weeks for each one. Here's the schedule:Scoring is computed like in 2015, but for both cycles and symbols. Since lower scores are better, the formula for each category is: best score / your score. Most puzzles will have only 2 categories: cycles and symbol count. The total score of a puzzle entry is: best cycles / your cycles + best symbols / your symbols.Some puzzles will have additional categories, which could be least waldos, least bonders, least use of a particular kind of symbol such as the flip-flop, least reactors (for production puzzles), least cells used by the waldos (waldopath), etc. In some of these categories (least bonders and least flip-flops), the minimum can be zero. I'll add one to everyone's scores in those categories, to avoid division by zero and scores of zero for everyone who didn't achieve the minimum.There could also be maximums, for instance a puzzle in which there is no choice but to store waste, and the challenge is to produce as many outputs as possible before your solution clogs and breaks. For those categories, the score will be: your score / best score.You can submit solutions as often as you like. I will use only your most recent submission for scoring. If you improve a solution in both cycles and symbols, definitely submit it. If you improve in one and worsen in another, will be hard to know whether that will give you a better score.As long as it is still the day the puzzle is due somewhere in the world, I'll accept solutions. Puzzles are due by midnight in timezone GMT-12. Anywhere on Earth No Wrong Output. That one could completely wreck some of these puzzles. Other than that, anything goes! See the 2015 Tournament guide Puzzle and solution files are on Google Drive . Puzzle files are also on Reddit researchnet . ZeroOne is keeping results on wikia