Dates

Feb. 20th, 11:45PM (MT): Final submissions are due. Any commits to a submission's repository after this time will be ignored.

Feb 21st - Feb 24th: Tournament play begins.

Eligibility

All students attending a Canadian university are welcome to attend.

Project and Submission Requirements

• Participants may participate in only one of the two sections. 3rd year students and above are required to register in the Open section
• Programs are expected to accept the required commands listed on the main GitHub repository.
• Programs can be written in any language desired, with any set of frameworks.
• Access to the internet by programs during tournament play is not permitted.
• Development can make use of outside services (such as AWS or Azure), but must run without access to these services.
• Excessive resource consumption is not permitted. Consuming excess amounts of memory may lead to your program being forcefully killed, and thus resigning the game.
• Machine Learning models must be trained by the participant. Pre-trained models are not permitted.
• Any code from outside sources must be cited.
• Submissions must include instructions on how to build & run the program.
• Each participant (group or individual) are permitted only one submission.

Prizes

Closed Section (Participants in years 1 & 2 of their degree):

• 1st: $150
• 2nd: $100
• 3rd: $50

Open Section (All participants):

• 1st: $200
• 2nd: $150
• 3rd: $100

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection 

The competition will be split into two sections. All participants in years 1 & 2 of their degree will be permitted access to a closed tournament, while an open tournament is available for all attendees regardless of previous experience or history. Each section will play their own round-robin style tournament, with separate winners in each category.