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The poll of "new tournament vs KotH" is running 2 to 1 in favor of running
a new tournament specifically for choosing EBS finalists to advance to the
ICWS annual tournament.  There is a little variance in specific suggestions
for how to handle the tournament, but nothing severe.

So, here is how the tournament will be run.  Entries should be sent to
"durham@cup.portal.com" before November 15, 1992.  I recommend that you
write very verbose comments so that there can be no mistaking your
intentions for the program.  Example:

; Program Name
; EBS 1992 Qualifying Tournament Entry
;
; Program's Author
; Program's Author's Email address
; I am (or am not) an ICWS member
;
; Detailed description of program
etc.

Remember, your program can only be up to 300 contiguous instructions in
length.  (Instructions, not lines.  You can have as many comments as you
wish.)  My assembler can handle any instruction format you throw at it,
but I prefer that you seperate operands by a comma.

I will accept up to two entries per person.  I will give preference to
advancing those entries from people who are NOT members of the ICWS or its
branch sections (other than the EBS).  Members of the ICWS can submit their
progams directly to Jon Newman before December 15th to enter them in the
ICWS tournament.  Reasons for entering the EBS tournament even though you
are a member of the ICWS include seeing how you stack up to the competition
prior to the tournament.

Last year we had fewer than the allowed ten entries.  I know we can do much
better this year.  The winner of the EBS tournament last year went on to
win the ICWS tournament.  I know we can repeat that success.

The format for the tournament will be a round-robin of several rounds, each
round with a randomly chosen separation.  The separation will be no smaller
than the largest submission in order to guarantee programs do not overlap.
The scoring will be the standard 3 points per win, 1 point per tie, and
0 points for a loss.  Some people have suggested weighting the results.  I
doubt that will be necessary or have any noticable effect.  In any case, I
am certain that all will consider the results of the tournament "fair".

Mark A. Durham
MAD