Results for round 3 of NSFCWT are in. The challenge was to submit a *pair* of warriors that would work together to kill other pairs of warriors. The score formula was modified to reward partnership, i.e. you received more points if you left your team mate alife. Real communication between warriors in a team was apparently difficult to implement effectively, since only two players chose that strategy (Randy Graham's Aces/Eights and, passively, Anders Scholl's Claudia/Lestat). Most players in this round submitted partners that were simply unable to kill each other (like papers) achieving some sort of cheap cooperativity. It's possible that redcode simply can't support effective cooperativity, or maybe it's just a matter of tweaking the score formula some more. Anyways, here the scores: S/P Warrior #1 by G. Eadon scores 3304 Die Hard by P.Kline scores 2916 Marcia Trionfale 1.3 by Beppe Bezzi scores 2608 Tican by John Wilkinson scores 2308 theMystery2.0 1 by Paulsson scores 2175 Not Expecting Too Much 1 by Karl Lewin scores 2161 theMystery2.0 2 by Paulsson scores 2148 Not Expecting Too Much 2 by Karl Lewin scores 2139 Aces by Randy Graham scores 2136 Juliet Storm+Spiral by John Wilkinson scores 2130 test 1 by Steven Morrell scores 2129 test 2 by Steven Morrell scores 2101 Jack in the box by Beppe Bezzi scores 1981 Twins 2 by Maurizio Vittuari scores 1969 Twins 1 by Maurizio Vittuari scores 1969 Eights by Randy Graham scores 1937 kwclear 2 by Anders Ivner scores 1788 kwclear 1 by Anders Ivner scores 1683 lewis 1 by John Lewis scores 1115 blackTN by P.Kline scores 1102 lewis 2 by John Lewis scores 1016 Claudia incarnation0.3 by anders scholl scores 952 2IR 2 by Calvin Loh scores 694 2IR 1 by Calvin Loh scores 684 Lestat Incarnation0.2 by anders scholl scores 579 S/P Warrior #2 by G. Eadon scores 380 Combined scores: Beppe Bezzi 4589 John Wilkinson 4438 Magnus Paulsson 4323 Karl Lewin 4300 Steven Morrell 4230 Randy Graham 4073 Paul Kline 4018 Maurizio Vittuari 3938 Greg Eadon 3684 Anders Ivner 3471 John Lewis 2131 Anders Scholl 1531 Calvin Loh 1378 Overall scores so far: Name pts for round 1 2 3 __________________________________________ Beppe Bezzi 7 7 13 M R Bremer 7 4 - G. Eadon 1.5 2 5 Randy Graham - - 8 Anders Ivner 5.5 8 4 P.Kline 7.5 9 7 Karl Lewin - - 10 John Lewis - - 3 Calvin Loh - - 1 Steven Morrell 5 10 9 Paulsson 7.5 11 11 Derek Ross 3.5 3 - Anders Scholl - 1 2 Maurizio Vittuari 6.5 5 6 John K. Wilkinson 4 6 12 Magnus Paulsson still leads with 29.5 points, followed by Beppe Bezzi with 27, and Steven Morrell and Paul Kline with 24 and 23.5 points, respectively. Concerning the score calculations for the upcoming round 4. The weighed average time is calculated as posted earlier. In addition, we will use a size index, as opposed to simply ranking by the number of instructions: index = size/avgsize The overall rank is then determined by the average of the speed and size indices - the smaller the better. This favors programs that trade a huge speed increase for a small increase in size, or an extremely compact size for a moderate slowdown. Thanks for playing, Nandor & Stefan