CPSC 415

It was a contest for the ages, ladies and gentlemen, as Alex Keehan eked out a breathtaking victory today in the 1st Inaugural UMW Clue^® Challenge Tournament!

Player 1 (akeehan):    55 wins (45.8%)
Player 2 (daviestj7):  50 wins (41.7%)
Player 3 (jpack):      15 wins (12.5%)

Abigail	Joey	King Alex	TJ	Alip

Props to all our finalists and semi-finalists for their hard work and ingenuity!

Our two second-round matchups promote Alex and TJ to tomorrow’s final championship round!

Player 1 (akeehan):   102 wins (85.0%)
Player 2 (ayalikun):   18 wins (15.0%)
Player 3 (random):      0 wins (0.0%)

Player 1 (daviestj7): 120 wins (100.0%)
Player 2 (awallac3):    0 wins (0.0%)
Player 3 (random):      0 wins (0.0%)

Get ready for a noon-time face-off between the three colossuses (colossi?): Alex, TJ, and Joey!

Here are the complete results from the 1st round of the Clue^® tournament! The key to success in the first round was apparently having a name starting with “A”: Alex, Alip, and Abigail were all big winners. Congrats to everyone who advanced, and also to those who gave it a go but fell short!

Player 1 (akeehan):   110 wins (91.7%)
Player 2 (jcottrel):   10 wins (8.3%)
Player 3 (dpeters3):    0 wins (0.0%)

Player 2 (ayalikun):   69 wins (57.5%)
Player 3 (ntobin):     49 wins (40.8%)
Player 1 (salexand):    2 wins (1.7%)

Player 1 (daviestj7): 101 wins (84.2%)
Player 3 (cfulton):    19 wins (15.8%)
Player 2 (jleitch):     0 wins (0.0%)

Player 3 (awallac3):   62 wins (51.7%)
Player 2 (rvolynsk):   58 wins (48.3%)
Player 1 (jraze):       0 wins (0.0%)

Player 1 (jpack):     119 wins (99.2%)
Player 3 (rshankar):    1 wins (0.8%)
Player 2 (mkanter):     0 wins (0.0%)

Second round coming tomorrow!

The Clue® bracket has been set for this week’s competition! In dramatic fashion, I’ll be unveiling results a bit at a time this week, as my simulator plows through them. Keep your eyes on this page for updates! In addition to XP and a trophy, the winner gets a date with either Miss Scarlet or Colonel Mustard, their choice.

Hopefully I set up the contest fairly; this is my first threesome bracket, so be kind. The winner of Joey/Matt/Rishi (this pod-of-3 was chosen at random) will get a bye to the championship round.

Btw, the “TJ” entry in the third bracket is none other than my own biological offspring, so get ready for some firepower! He’s nearly as smart as I am, and Obi-wan has taught him well. (Btw, in the event that his presence actually upsets the winner/runner-up outcome, I will award those bonus XP to the runner-up and runner-runner-up-up, respectively.)

Some players (including mine) were getting a little slow because when a KB was told something it already knew, it duplicated it. This led to a lot of redundant clauses, which of course take longer to process. I’ve pushed a fix to the class repo that short-circuits this: when .tell()ing a KB a proposition, only clauses that aren’t equivalent to existing KB clauses will be added.

Enjoy!

It looks like we will in fact get far enough to do an assignment based on Bayes nets, so I went ahead and posted it. This is due at the very end of finals week, if you’d like to do any last-minute Christmas XP shopping at the end of the semester.