These are the rules of Slovenian Lia Tournament 2019.

Lia version

In this tournament we will use the Lia-SDK version v1.0.x. Since this is a brand new version we reserve the right to tweak game parameters a bit during the first days of the tournament for the better experience. We will do this only if necessary.

Prizes

The prize Leaderboard winners week 1 to 3 will be decided based on the following rules. The first winner will be the person on top of the leaderboard on February 24th at 8:00 pm, the second on March 3rd at 8:00 pm and the third on March 10th at 8:00 pm. Although players won't be able to upload their bots after 8:00 pm on March 9th, the games will continue to generate until 8:00 pm of March 10th. If the player has already won a prize for a leaderboard winner in a previous week, the prize will be given to the player second in the lead.

Cheating

Uploading a code from another Lia user or using multiple accounts is forbidden and will result in disqualification from the tournament. Same goes for trying to bring down our servers or other malicious attempts. We are trying to make a fun event for programming community so please be reasonable. :)

Online leaderboard (18 Feb - 9 Mar)

During this period an online leaderboard will be live. Every high school or university student from Slovenia will be able to register and upload his bots. When a bot is uploaded it is automatically matched against bots from other players and is according to its skill properly ranked on the leaderboard. The rank is calculated using TrueSkill library. Registrations will be opened until the very last day. After the March 9th 8:00 pm, we will disable the ability to upload your bots to the leaderboard, reset the leaderboard and continue to generate games for 24 hours until we get the final rankings on March 10th at 8:00 pm. The top 16 players after the final rankings will be qualified to the finals. Shortly after the ranks will be known, we will publish who plays against who in the first rounds of the final tournament.

Preparations for the final tournament (10 Mar - 13 Mar)

Top 16 players from the online leaderboard get to play on the final tournament. In the period between March 10th 8:00 pm until March 13th midnight they have a chance to make the final tweaks to their bots and upload them to our website. Since the leaderboard will not be running, you won't be able to test those changes against other players, so be careful!

Final tournament (14 Mar)

Final tournament will be held at Faculty of Computer and Information Science (FRI) of University of Ljubljana at Večna pot 113, 1000 Ljubljana at 4:00 pm in the classroom P22 The final tournament will feature a top 16 players competing between each other in the best of 5 format. See the event schedule and other details at the EVENT PAGE. Anyone is welcome!
Lia team will stream the games on the big canvas. After the final tournament all the games from all rounds will be available online for everyone to view.