This semester we plan to do a student competition. The competition provides you the possibility to compete with your fellow students. Every assignment solution you do gives you a score value. The accumulated score is presented in a leaderboard available on the wiki and updated weekly. Below, you’ll find an example scoreboard with fictional names and scores. The scoreboard will be available on the website of the lecture.

Rank	Old		Handle	Score
1		1	KTBFFH	1239
1		1	pory	1239
1		1	Rewe	1239
4		8	Parhalche	1205
5		5	Herbie	1205
5		5	SCRAT	1205
7		4	Cloud	1191
8		7	azure	1185
9		9	007	1176
9		9	Solid Snake	1176
11		11	Gray	1153

Last Updated: 2013-07-16

The participation of this competition is optional. To participate, send us your name + a chosen handle by email to dsp@cs.uni-bonn.de May 22nd. The assignments that you already solved will be taken into account.

Your handle will be used on the board to identify you on the board. Therefore, feel free to keep it secret for yourself or, if you wish, share it with others.

At any time during the semester you can quit the competition by sending us an email. It may be that we add more rewards during the course and there may be a reward in the end for the top ranks.

The competition uses a multiplayer variation of the standard Elo rating system, which is commonly used to calculate the relative skill of two players in two person games (e.g. chess). The constants are: K=50, D=400, InitialScore=1200