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Continuous Tournament 2009
« on: May 31st, 2009, 6:44pm » |
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I am finally ready to restart the continuous tournament for 2009. However, it may be that players are still busy with their postal mixer games and/or with the blitz tournament. Therefore, I will only start if at least ten players (not counting me) register themselves within the next week at this URL: http://arimaa.com/arimaa/tourn/ct/
My apologies to 722caasi, Eltripas, and simpleton. I unregistered you in case you registered months ago and have long since forgotten that you signed up. If you still want to play, please re-register. Everyone is welcome, especially newcomers!
If I don't get ten players within the week, then I'll call it off for now and try again in a few months.
Peace,
Fritz
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The format will be continuous play at the pace of one game per week, just like the World Championship. Players can join or withdraw at any time by posting to this thread or e-mailing me. There is no entry fee. Pairings, results, and standings will be listed on http://arimaa.com/arimaa/tourn/ct/status/ . The rules will be listed in this first post of the thread, and I will also update the rules as we go, entirely at my whim. As the benevolent tournament dictator director, I will not play in the tournament if it would make the number of players odd and force someone to take a bye.
I will offer prizes to encourage serious participation at all levels. The pairing will be Swiss-like to ensure that everyone has nearly-even games, not only so that everyone can earn prize points, but also because nearly-even games are the most interesting and fun. If you win a game, your opponent the next round will be tougher, whereas if you lose, your opponent next round will be weaker.
For all players at the start of the tournament, and for late-joining players as they arrive, I will estimate the appropriate pairing flight entirely subjectively. For example, if PMertens joins late I might pair him at flight 8 of 10. If a newcomer joins late, I will probably pair him at flight zero, i.e. I will give him the easiest possible opponent. After my arbitrary seeding, a player's flight will be calculated by the formula NewFlight = 0.9 * OldFlight + (1 for win | 0 for loss). Thus if you were paired as a 3-win player this round and win, you will be paired as a 3.7-win player next round.
Players will not be paired against anyone they have played in the previous four rounds. I will increase or decrease the number of rounds to exclude repeat pairings depending on whether more or fewer players sign up.
Color assignment within each pairing will be made on the basis of games each player has played within the tournament, including forfeits. The rules are given in order of strict priority, i.e. a later rule will apply only if no prior rule distinguishes between the players.
1. Assign Gold to the player with a lower total of previous games as Gold minus previous games as Silver.
2. Assign Gold to the player with fewer previous games as Gold among games between the two players.
3. Break both color streaks.
4. Break the color streak of the player with the longer streak.
5. Swap colors with respect to the last time the two players played against each other.
6. Assign color arbitrarily.
All games will be played at a time control of 60s/5m/75/0/4h/4m.
The prize points will be as follows:
100 points for a win
X points for a non-forfeit loss where X is the number of moves in the game or 80, whichever is smaller
-100 points for a forfeit
Points can be redeemed for prizes as follows:
400 points for an Arimaa bumper sticker
2200 points for an Arimaa T-shirt
2200 points for Beginning Arimaa
(free international shipping included)
I reserve the right to subtract any or all points from accounts of players who engage in unsporting behavior, including but not limited to playing with a duplicate account, intentionally losing a game, and intentionally not winning in order to prolong a game.
Players who forfeit will automatically be withdrawn from future rounds unless they individually post to this thread or e-mail me that they would like to rejoin. Players who give notice that they would like to withdraw before the round is paired will not lose any prize points, and their flight number will stay the same should they rejoin at a later date. Thus the tournament will accommodate players who can only play sporadically, as long as such players give advance notice every time they withdraw or rejoin.
The tournament will not be linked into Omar's system for automatic e-mail reminders, so it will be the responsibility of players to go to http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/selectTimes.cgi every week to update their available time slots. However, if players can mutually agree on a time to play, I will be able to change the automatically scheduled time to whatever time they agree on.
If a game ends due to forfeit or technical difficulties before move 10g has been played, the two players involved may replay it from the start. (I originally wanted interrupted games to be resumed from the ending position only, but this is so great a hassle as to be technically infeasible.) No one is obliged to replay a game. For a game to replace the official game, it must be a rated game at the time control of sixty seconds per move, played before the end of the week, and the player who won the official game must add a comment to the replacement game saying that it should count instead of the official game.
Bots may play, but only if they are run by their developer, i.e. no home copies of Bomb.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #1 on: Jun 3rd, 2009, 4:58am » |
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Clueless would like to enter.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #2 on: Jun 3rd, 2009, 9:27am » |
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on Jun 3rd, 2009, 4:58am, jdb wrote:| Clueless would like to enter. |
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Excellent! I have registered clueless, which brings the total to five with woh, Tuks, Simon, and camelback. I expect that folks are interested in taking on clueless in slower games as well as blitz, especially since you continue to actively develop.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #3 on: Jun 3rd, 2009, 10:00am » |
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I am a little busy lately and can't commit to a long game but if you leave the option open for at least a couple of weeks you most certainly can count me in.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #4 on: Jun 3rd, 2009, 12:47pm » |
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on Jun 3rd, 2009, 10:00am, Arimabuff wrote:| I am a little busy lately and can't commit to a long game but if you leave the option open for at least a couple of weeks you most certainly can count me in. |
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If enough players commit to get the tournament started, then you are certainly welcome to join at any time, and play only on the weeks when you have enough time. I would be glad if you participated.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #5 on: Jun 7th, 2009, 11:52am » |
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Well, only six players have expressed interest, which isn't enough for the tournament format to work. Perhaps the hunger for games is dampened a bit by the ongoing Postal Mixer and Blitz Tournament. Thanks to all who signed up. I will ask again later in the summer; perhaps there will be more interest then.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #6 on: Jun 7th, 2009, 11:54am » |
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aww. and school is over and i have too much time on my hands
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #7 on: Jul 12th, 2009, 7:10pm » |
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I was traveling most of June and early part of July. The kids are on summer vacation so we were visiting relatives and attending some weddings. I should be able to join next time.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #8 on: Dec 1st, 2009, 10:07am » |
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on Nov 26th, 2009, 1:10pm, Tuks wrote:hey Fritz, can we start the continuous tournament again, 10 people are registered and im sure even more have an extra 2 hours at some point in the week, we did have people with whole days to play  |
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OK, I will take another stab at opening the Continuous Tournament. If there is a huge groundswell of interest, we could conceivably get in three rounds before the end of the year and the beginning of the World Championships.
I have unregistered all of the players, because I have no way of knowing whether folks signed up last week, last month, or months ago. Everyone who would like to play a game specifically between December 10 and December 14 please go to http://arimaa.com/arimaa/tourn/ct/ and register for Round 22. I will only restart the tournament if ten or more participants sign up.
If developers would like to register their bots, they need to post in this thread so that I can register the bot myself. There is no smooth way for me to handle the entry of both a developer and that developer's bot, so only one or the other can enter.
Game time preferences can be selected at http://arimaa.com/arimaa/gameroom/selectTimes.cgi
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #9 on: Dec 1st, 2009, 1:25pm » |
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on Dec 1st, 2009, 10:07am, Fritzlein wrote:
OK, I will take another stab at opening the Continuous Tournament. If there is a huge groundswell of interest, we could conceivably get in three rounds before the end of the year and the beginning of the World Championships.
I have unregistered all of the players, because I have no way of knowing whether folks signed up last week, last month, or months ago. Everyone who would like to play a game specifically between December 10 and December 14 please go to http://arimaa.com/arimaa/tourn/ct/ and register for Round 22. I will only restart the tournament if ten or more participants sign up.
If developers would like to register their bots, they need to post in this thread so that I can register the bot myself. There is no smooth way for me to handle the entry of both a developer and that developer's bot, so only one or the other can enter.
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Clueless would like to enter.
If there is an odd number of entrants, or whatever other reason, it can sit out a week. Any time is fine for the game.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #10 on: Dec 2nd, 2009, 6:48am » |
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on Dec 1st, 2009, 1:25pm, jdb wrote:| Clueless would like to enter. |
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Great, that brings us to five entrants, six counting me.
Quote:| If there is an odd number of entrants, or whatever other reason, it can sit out a week. |
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Thanks for that flexibility. I don't mind taking the bye myself, but sometimes I want to play!
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For scheduling clueless, I use your time preferences, JDB. I don't know what happens if you don't enter times, but you could always go in and enter everything as a top preference, to give your opponent full control over the choice.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #11 on: Dec 5th, 2009, 1:55pm » |
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OK, ten people have signed up, so Round 22 is ON!
Everyone please enter time preferences. If you don't enter preferences, your game will be scheduled purely at the convenience of your opponent. Yes, I can change the time of a game, but I will not do it unless both players agree. Your opponent is under no obligation to change game time because you messed up your time preferences or never got around to setting them. Indeed, I consider it somewhat rude to be too lazy to go through a fair method of scheduling. You can't avoid the appearance that you bypassed the impartial scheduler in order to get an advantage to yourself.
I have entered my times, including a dozen bottom picks. It would stink to get paired on one of those slots, but at least it will be good practice for the World Championship. 
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #12 on: Dec 6th, 2009, 8:20am » |
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on Dec 2nd, 2009, 6:48am, Fritzlein wrote:
For scheduling clueless, I use your time preferences, JDB. I don't know what happens if you don't enter times, but you could always go in and enter everything as a top preference, to give your opponent full control over the choice.
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For clueless, I entered all 119 slots as preference 3.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #13 on: Dec 6th, 2009, 10:20am » |
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Thanks, JDB. We're now up to 11 registrants, which would mean giving a bye to clueless, but I'm going to delay pairing and scheduling Round 22 in the hopes of getting up to 12. I can wait at least until Monday, as the games don't start until Wednesday at the earliest anyway.
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Re: Continuous Tournament 2009
« Reply #14 on: Dec 7th, 2009, 4:47pm » |
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Wow, 13 participants! JDB, thank you for letting clueless take a bye. That will make me happy because I get to play and make aaaa happy because he doesn't have to play a computer.
I decided to ignore the previous history when I set the pairings. Those games were so long ago nobody should be upset to get repeat pairings, if they can even remember who they played way back when.
I ran the pairings through the tournament scheduler and created the games in the game room. The scheduler seemed to produce reasonable times, except for the game Simon vs. woh. Guys (Simon & woh), did you two both remember to input your time preferences?
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