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

[Matthew Strax-Haber]

We've seen this behavior before. I submitted an avatar that times out (yoyo) in one of the practice tournaments and it continued to play after being kicked out from each round.


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~ Matthew Strax-Haber
Northeastern University

On Nov 11, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Madhuvanthi Balasubramanian wrote:

> 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,
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> ~ 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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