6.370 Home: RulesEligibility6.370 is open to all currently registered MIT students, undergraduate or graduate, except for 6.370 developers. Contest FormatIndividuals register for the contest from the 2nd until the 22nd of December 2002. The contest software, specifications, and a tutorial will be released at the first class meeting in 34-301 at 1300h, Monday, 6 January 2003. By the end of the first week, student must complete the tutorial and form teams of up to three people; teams will then receive the reference player bytecode for testing. It is to your advantage to form a team as soon as possible; you may use the first class meeting or the contest mailing list to find potential teammates. At the end of the second week, teams must submit a preliminary entry to compete in a single-elimination seeding tournament; this will rank teams for the final tournament. At the end of the third week, teams will submit a final entry which will compete in the final tournament bracket above. The quarterfinals (yielding the top 16 teams) and the semi-finals (yielding the top 8 teams) will be viewable online; the final rounds will take place in front of a live audience in 10-250. All prizes and judging results will be presented at that time. CreditTeams must submit an entry that beats the provided reference player by 1700h on 31st January for each member to receive 6 units of general elective credit. This is independent of the final tournament. Teams must submit an entry that wins at least one match in the final tournament in order for each member to receive 6 EDPs. This is dependent on the final tournament. The exception is that repeating students will receive 3 credits and 3 EDPs for the criteria above, independently of their teammates. Obligations & Collaboration PolicyEntry into 6.370 constitutes a reasonable commitment to participate in the contest, including the submission of a preliminary entry and a final entry. The contest is designed to take a team of three students with basic Java programming knowledge two weeks to complete. Teams may use any reference in the public domain (including textbooks and websites) except for source code written by other students for 6.370. All submitted source code for a team must be the original work of its members. Judging & Academic PrizesIn addition to the head-to-head tournament, there will be five awards given to final team submissions with outstanding academic merit. Our five judges will consist of MIT faculty members and employees of our corporate sponsors. All entries will be divided equally and randomly amongst the judges, who will jointly allocate and award these prizes. Illegal Exception TrapThe 6.370 organisers reserve the right to modify these rules and the contest format. All contestants must abide by the decision of the organisers in the case of a dispute. Change Log
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