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Six ways to step up to the challenge.
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Project Hoshimi-Programming Battle
Imagine that you are the only one that can save a person, a city, or even a nation and that you can use the right combination of strategy and programming skills to do this. The Project Hoshimi - Programming Battle invitational brings to life the world of Professor Hoshimi and his faithful crew of scientists and programming experts in a fantasy of life and death. This popular competition uses a background story, comic style graphics, and very real challenges to test the skills of programmers everywhere and allow them to compete, directly online, with people all over their nation and eventually the world to see who has the fastest program to save the day. In Project Hoshimi - Programming Battle, you write the code representing the behavior and the strategy of a team of characters going through different types of missions.. The results are not only fun to create but also fun to watch as the programs play it out in a virtual 3D environment for all to see.
Don't miss the web site: www.project-hoshimi.com
General Guidelines
- Teams of 1-2 individuals
- SDK based strategy/programming competition
- All teams meeting the minimum qualifying standard move on to second round
- Second round is based on an evolution of the round 1 SDK: participants’ programs compete head-to-head in a game.
- 6 teams advance to final competition in India
Deliverables
- Round 1 – Upload round 1 DLL
- Round 2 – Upload round 2 DLL
- Round 3 – 24 hr onsite worldwide finals competition – details released to those competitors who achieve this status
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Calendar
- Nov 1, 2005 – Registration Opens/ Round One Begins
- Mar 15, 2006 – Registration Closes/ Round One Closes
- April 1, 2006 – 2nd Round finalists officially announced (however qualification for 2nd round will be shared with competitors as they do or do not achieve the minimum mark for advancing)
- April 5, 2006 – 2nd Round Begins
- May 8, 2006 – 2nd Round Closes
- May 22, 2006 – 12 Worldwide finalists announced
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Judging Elements
- Round 1 – Opening round
- All entrants that achieve the published minimum standard in the first round advance to round two
- Round 2 – International Selection
- All qualifiers are distributed into pools by country/region. An elimination format is used to determine the top 3 teams per country/region. Those top 3 teams per country/region are then all put together in one pool. An elimination format is used to determine the top 6 teams to move on to the final round.
- Round 3 – Worldwide finals
- The top 6 teams will advance to the worldwide finals competition to be held in mid to late July in Delhi, India. Expense and accommodations are provided for by Microsoft. The competition will be a 24hr challenge to determine the global champion.
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Prize Amounts for Worldwide Finals
- First Place – $8,000
- Second Place – $4,000
- Third Place – $3,000
- Additional prizes – Competitors that achieve advancement to the worldwide finals will also receive travel and accommodations to attend the final competition in Delhi, India.
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