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

Madhuvanthi Balasubramanian balasubramanian.m at husky.neu.edu
Fri Nov 11 09:31:36 EST 2011


Matthew and David,

When an avatar is kicked out, it is kicked out forever, from the tournament.
I don't think there's any case where an avatar is kicked out from a round
and then comes back to play in another round.

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Matthew Strax-Haber
<straxhaber at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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>> >
>> > --
>> > - Madhu Murali
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > - Madhu Murali
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> >  Thanks
>> > - Madhu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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>> >  Thanks
>> > - Madhu
>> >
>>
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