A new test tournament

jasonrohrer · 2015-01-09 00:30:53

v12, which was just released, has a new tournament-with-entry-fee feature.

I have a small test tournament running right now.

If the tournament had 20 players enter, the prizes would be as listed here:

http://cordialminuet.com/gameServer/ser … players=20

Winners are chosen according to their net profit at 0.01 games during the tournament window. You stop being able to play against another player after you've won 0.02 or more, net, from that player. (In other words, you can't win the tournament by feeding repeatedly on one fish.)

The leaderboard is here:

http://cordialminuet.com/gameServer/ser … name=test2

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 00:36:53

I've mentioned this in another thread, but when I try to join the yellow 1c game or create my own I get "unexpected response from server".

If not enough people join do I get my 10c back?

jasonrohrer · 2015-01-09 00:41:27

Oops!

Forgot to make the tournament_pairings table on the live server. Fixed.

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 00:42:40

Thanks! Top of the leaderboard now! .

jasonrohrer · 2015-01-09 00:43:23

As long as at least 2 people join, at least one person will get a prize.

If the tournament is a total bomb with only one person joining, the code currently doesn't give that one person a prize. But I just joined, so there is now a prize of 16 cents for the winner.

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 00:50:46

Looks like I just beat you at your own game .

Where does the extra I guess you take the left over 4c?

computermouth · 2015-01-09 00:59:40

Dammit, I'm at work!

Sneaky games: engage.

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 01:05:31

so you're '********' computermouth?

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computermouth · 2015-01-09 01:10:59

Oh jesus, shhhhhhhhh. Don't look at my leaderboard stuff!

jasonrohrer · 2015-01-09 01:15:47

The prize pool is currently 80% of the entry fees. The house keeps the other 20%

Prizes are distributed according to a geometric sequence that starts as close as possible to the entry fee and has a ratio of 1.5. So, you get 1.5x as much money as the person one place below you. The smallest prize is the entry fee or a little higher (tweaked higher so that the entire prize pool is split into prizes with none left over).

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 01:26:58

Don't worry computermouth, your secret is safe with me (and anyone else who read my comment before I censored it).

computermouth · 2015-01-09 01:28:57

Haha, nah, I'm not worried about it. It's just my pride </3

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 01:51:50

Looks like we are barred from playing each other now. We are going to have to wait for others to join. Unless Jason wants another round?

computermouth · 2015-01-09 02:02:27

Ah, I'd figured you'd just filled your pockets and hit the town on my fat pennies! Good games though, you're a tough player.

cullman · 2015-01-09 02:58:37

Where do we find the v12 version of the game.

* I figured it out, I needed to close and reopen the game.

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computermouth · 2015-01-09 03:40:26

Heads up, Rohrerbucks. Judge doorman's pulling a prize with no games played according to the query.

cullman · 2015-01-09 04:01:29

Hmm, I played one game and I won it.

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 04:03:34

Hmmm... looks like if you are mid-game when the tournament ends you end up losing $1.00 from that game no matter how well you are going.

Still, winner! Although it is funny that as more players joined the prize for 1st place became lower...

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 04:06:59

cullman: you didn't win by much!

Still, you should have come in 3rd place.

computermouth · 2015-01-09 04:19:25

Leaderboard changed, but there's another player listed now with 0 games played and placed 3rd.

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 04:31:25

Hmm, I think as Yatch Mouth didn't get a chance to play they should be given their 10c back and taken off the leader board.

I might be biased though as this will increase my winnings .

Yeah, and in judge doormans single game he came out .0010-.0020 ahead not .01 behind, so he is really third place anyway.

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jasonrohrer · 2015-01-09 06:34:29

Yeah, turns out that the geometric series is a little weird the way that I'm using it.

At the thresholds where one more player joins in such a way that it expands the prize pool to one more person, the prizes for the existing players go down to compensate.

I'll work on this tomorrow and tweak the formula to prevent this.

Any other issues with the tournament? Yeah, I know that someone who played 0 games took third place, but I think that's because of the small sample size.

computermouth · 2015-01-09 07:26:34

Everything else worked great!

joshwithguitar · 2015-01-09 07:31:10

Well, there is still the issue that if you are in a game at the end of the tournament you end up being down 1c even if you were winning the game.
This affected the results here.

jasonrohrer · 2015-01-09 08:19:59

Yeah, it's profit by the deadline!

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