CSSE 413: Teams for Game Tournament Programming Assignments

Rubric	Weight
Learning	35%
System performance	35%
Sportsmanship	15%
Teamwork	15%

• Learning: A key purpose of the tournament is to see different AIs play against each other and study how they do. To reward experimentation, each team is asked to submit a brief write-up of their system. Tell me what you tried, as well as how it worked out. This category is used to reward experimentation and learning.
• System performance: While experimentation is good, we also want to ensure that ideas get to be implemented well. This category is used to determine how much effort you put into ensuring that your software works well. To assess your performance in this category, I ask you to keep a record of the games you played, their outcomes, and approximate average move time. As part of this record, provide a subjective assessment of why your code performed the way it did. I will ask you to submit your code at the end of the term and as well as a brief write-up of significant features. If your code does not run as expected, please give me an indication of why it did not.
• Teamwork: How well does your team work together. Please use the team evaluation form.
• Sportsmanship: Things that make the tournament fun, non-competitive, and a good learning experience. Consider participating in newsgroup discussions of server issues. Consider making extensions to the server available to class. Consider working with the team against which your software competes to assess strategies displayed and how you achieved that. Consider giving fair evaluations of games you played.