[Cs5500] [Cs4800] Number of games per avatar differs

Matthew Strax-Haber straxhaber at gmail.com
Fri Nov 11 09:18:41 EST 2011


Prof. Lieberherr,

I think David was referring to the fact that in some cases an avatar who performs 'bad scientific behavior' is kicked out from a round, and in others from the whole tournament.


Best regards,
-- 
~ Matthew Strax-Haber
Northeastern University

On Nov 11, 2011, at 5:05 AM, Karl Lieberherr wrote:

> Hi David:
> 
> There is no difference.
> 
> There are two kinds of "punishment" behavior in SCG: for bad scientific behavior you lose reputation 
> and for really bad scientific behavior, you get kicked out.
> 
> Bad scientific behavior is, e.g., not defending your claims.
> Really bad scientific behavior is, e.g., to provide a solution that is NOT valid for the given instance. The valid predicate is defined in the playground definition.
> 
> Thank you for all your great emails.
> 
> -- Karl
> 
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:30 PM, David Richards <dirich at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> What are the different criteria for getting kicked out of a single game versus getting
> kicked out of the tournament altogether?
> 
> Thanks,
> -David
> 
> On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:17 PM, Madhuvanthi Balasubramanian wrote:
> 
> > David,
> > The avatar that was kicked out was iGalaxy. iGalaxy had a chance to play against dirich, but not 5150, hence the difference in # of tournaments.
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Madhuvanthi Balasubramanian <balasubramanian.m at husky.neu.edu> wrote:
> > David,
> > It is possible that some avatar may have been kicked out in the midst of the tournament.
> > As a result, 5150 may not have been able to compete with that avatar, while you may have.
> > This is a possibility.
> > I still have to look through the files to see who was kicked out and when.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:02 PM, David Richards <dirich at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> > Why is it that the number of games differs per avatar?  For example, in the last
> > tournament my dirich avatar played 21 games winning or tying all of them for
> > a total of 63 points.  However, 5150 only got to play 20 games, winning or
> > tying all of them for a total of only 60 points.
> >
> > Shouldn't each avatar play the same number of games?
> >
> > -David Richards
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