NSFCWT round 5 is over. Good news. Michael Constant joined our tournament ( better late than never :-) There were 10 battles of 10-round round robins. The battles run for Elapsed time: 292 seconds (00:04:52) Elapsed time: 231 seconds (00:03:51) Elapsed time: 327 seconds (00:05:27) Elapsed time: 234 seconds (00:03:54) Elapsed time: 153 seconds (00:02:33) Elapsed time: 338 seconds (00:05:38) Elapsed time: 369 seconds (00:06:09) Elapsed time: 77 seconds (00:01:17) Elapsed time: 163 seconds (00:02:43) Elapsed time: 214 seconds (00:03:34) respectively. The tournament was run on a 100 Mhz Pentium. The random parameters were generated by the following program written in Turbo Pascal. ------------------8<---------------- const nsets=10; nrounds=10; var go,mts:text; round:integer; size,proc:longint; begin randomize; assign(go,'go.bat'); rewrite(go); writeln(go,'dir /b *.red >names.txt'); for round:=0 to nsets-1 do begin assign(mts,chr(ord('0')+round)+'mts.cmd'); rewrite(mts); writeln(mts); writeln(mts); size:=1000+random(20000-1000+1); proc:=10+random(10000-10+1); writeln(go,'rem size-processes ',size,'-',proc); writeln(go,'mts <',chr(ord('0')+round)+'mts.cmd'); writeln( mts,'pmars -bfr ',nrounds, ' -s ',size, ' -p ',proc, ' -c ',10*size); writeln(mts); writeln(mts,chr(ord('0')+round)+'scores.cmd'); writeln(mts); writeln(mts,'@names.txt'); writeln(mts); close(mts); end; close(go); end. ------------------------------8<------------------ The program generated the following parameters: Battle Coresize-Processes 1. 12164-4245 2. 9414-5576 3. 13230-1033 4. 12016-72 5. 6280-1164 6. 13810-6126 7. 14599-9549 8. 2798-5242 9. 6483-1330 10 .8597-2180 The detailed scores are: Battle 1. 1 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 58 33 9 275 2 Frontwards Steven Morrell 49 30 21 253 3 Perspire Robert Macrae 44 23 33 248 4 WT-Round5 P.Kline 47 35 18 240 5 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 38 25 37 226 6 black & white Anders Ivner 41 33 25 224 7 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 30 17 53 214 8 Rand-Man Randy Graham 15 12 73 178 9 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 16 16 68 174 10 blah blah blah M R Bremer 15 17 67 170 11 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 30 47 23 169 12 Theme Michael Constant 13 15 71 167 13 myImp Paulsson 8 30 62 129 14 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 12 84 4 60 Battle 2. 1 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 57 29 13 278 2 Frontwards Steven Morrell 55 29 16 270 3 WT-Round5 P.Kline 49 33 17 248 4 Perspire Robert Macrae 44 26 30 243 5 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 40 25 35 232 6 black & white Anders Ivner 39 29 32 225 7 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 29 17 53 212 8 blah blah blah M R Bremer 23 13 65 199 9 Theme Michael Constant 11 10 79 169 10 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 13 16 71 164 11 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 28 49 23 161 12 myImp Paulsson 9 25 66 138 13 Rand-Man Randy Graham 6 41 53 106 14 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 15 75 9 83 Battle 3. 1 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 53 26 21 269 2 Perspire Robert Macrae 45 22 33 251 3 Frontwards Steven Morrell 50 35 15 248 4 black & white Anders Ivner 41 27 32 234 5 WT-Round5 P.Kline 46 41 13 227 6 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 28 11 61 218 7 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 28 20 52 204 8 blah blah blah M R Bremer 21 10 69 197 9 Theme Michael Constant 12 7 81 175 10 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 11 11 78 168 11 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 29 51 20 162 12 Rand-Man Randy Graham 11 23 66 150 13 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 16 65 19 101 14 myImp Paulsson 0 45 55 83 Battle 4. 1 Perspire Robert Macrae 49 21 30 267 2 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 37 5 58 252 3 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 43 21 35 248 4 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 32 2 66 243 5 blah blah blah M R Bremer 34 13 53 233 6 black & white Anders Ivner 37 30 33 215 7 Theme Michael Constant 27 15 59 208 8 Rand-Man Randy Graham 19 5 76 198 9 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 37 52 11 182 10 Frontwards Steven Morrell 32 51 17 169 11 myImp Paulsson 13 17 70 165 12 WT-Round5 P.Kline 31 57 12 159 13 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 17 61 22 111 14 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 16 75 9 86 Battle 5. 1 Frontwards Steven Morrell 50 28 22 258 2 Perspire Robert Macrae 47 24 29 254 3 WT-Round5 P.Kline 47 34 19 241 4 black & white Anders Ivner 39 28 33 226 5 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 45 39 16 225 6 blah blah blah M R Bremer 25 10 65 211 7 Rand-Man Randy Graham 22 10 68 201 8 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 27 21 52 201 9 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 29 25 46 198 10 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 15 19 66 165 11 Theme Michael Constant 9 8 83 164 12 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 23 55 23 136 13 myImp Paulsson 9 27 65 136 Battle 6. 14 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 16 74 10 87 1 Frontwards Steven Morrell 57 23 21 286 2 WT-Round5 P.Kline 51 27 23 262 3 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 49 37 13 242 4 black & white Anders Ivner 45 29 27 241 5 Perspire Robert Macrae 36 25 39 221 6 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 34 26 40 213 7 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 27 30 43 185 8 blah blah blah M R Bremer 19 17 65 181 9 Theme Michael Constant 12 9 79 173 10 Rand-Man Randy Graham 15 17 69 169 11 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 11 15 73 161 12 myImp Paulsson 11 21 68 150 13 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 23 53 23 140 14 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 17 77 6 84 Battle 7. 1 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 63 29 7 296 2 Frontwards Steven Morrell 55 24 21 278 3 Perspire Robert Macrae 40 27 33 229 4 WT-Round5 P.Kline 41 33 26 225 5 black & white Anders Ivner 39 31 29 221 6 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 28 11 61 217 7 blah blah blah M R Bremer 18 13 69 184 8 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 25 30 45 179 9 Theme Michael Constant 15 15 70 171 10 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 28 45 27 166 11 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 14 20 66 162 12 Rand-Man Randy Graham 11 17 72 156 13 myImp Paulsson 5 21 75 133 14 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 17 80 3 80 Battle 8. 1 Frontwards Steven Morrell 65 23 13 310 2 black & white Anders Ivner 46 21 33 256 3 WT-Round5 P.Kline 49 29 22 255 4 Perspire Robert Macrae 38 29 33 221 5 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 43 42 15 217 6 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 31 22 47 211 7 blah blah blah M R Bremer 25 15 59 203 8 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 18 11 71 187 9 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 35 45 21 187 10 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 21 27 52 171 11 Theme Michael Constant 10 23 67 145 12 Rand-Man Randy Graham 10 26 64 141 13 myImp Paulsson 7 23 70 138 Battle 9. 14 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 16 79 5 80 1 Frontwards Steven Morrell 54 31 15 266 2 WT-Round5 P.Kline 51 32 17 254 3 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 34 17 49 227 4 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 44 42 14 219 5 blah blah blah M R Bremer 25 9 67 211 6 Perspire Robert Macrae 36 33 31 209 7 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 25 15 59 203 8 black & white Anders Ivner 35 35 30 201 9 Theme Michael Constant 15 5 79 188 10 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 15 14 71 175 11 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 26 49 25 155 12 Rand-Man Randy Graham 8 21 71 143 13 myImp Paulsson 9 23 69 142 14 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 20 72 8 102 Battle 10. 1 Simple Scissors John K. Wilkinson 57 25 17 284 2 WT-Round5 P.Kline 49 33 18 249 3 black & white Anders Ivner 45 28 27 242 4 Frontwards Steven Morrell 47 34 19 239 5 Mr Dumb Maurizio Vittuari 41 23 35 239 6 Perspire Robert Macrae 37 28 35 218 7 blah blah blah M R Bremer 21 9 71 199 8 Rubber wall Beppe Bezzi 21 18 61 187 9 A Quick Hack Karl Lewin 15 13 73 175 10 Theme Michael Constant 13 11 77 172 11 myImp Paulsson 9 23 68 144 12 Rand-Man Randy Graham 8 23 69 140 13 Miss Careworn Derek Ross 20 52 28 132 14 Multi-Stone G. Eadon 15 79 5 77 Here are the total scores of the 10 battles: Name Scores G. Eadon 840 Paulsson 1358 Derek Ross 1519 Randy Graham 1582 Michael Constant 1732 Karl Lewin 1774 M R Bremer 1988 Beppe Bezzi 2100 Maurizio Vittuari 2137 Anders Ivner 2285 P.Kline 2360 Robert Macrae 2361 John K. Wilkinson 2487 Steven Morrell 2577 The overall rank after round 5: Name 1 2 3 4 5 total Steven Morrell 5 10 9 13 14 51 P.Kline 7.5 9 7 11 11 45.5 Paulsson 7.5 11 11 9 2 40.5 Beppe Bezzi 7 7 13 2 8 37 John K. Wilkinson 4 6 12 - 13 35 Maurizio Vittuari 6.5 5 6 3 9 29.5 Anders Ivner 5.5 8 4 - 10 27.5 M R Bremer 7 4 3.6 5 7 26.6 Robert Macrae - - - 12 12 24 Randy Graham - - 8 10 4 22 Karl Lewin - - 10 4 6 20 Derek Ross 3.5 3 3.3 7 3 19.8 G. Eadon 1.5 2 5 6 1 15.5 Kurt Franke - - - 8 - 8 Michael Constant - - - - 5 5 Anders Scholl - 1 2 1 - 4 John Lewis - - 3 - - 3 Calvin Loh - - 1 - - 1 Good luck for round 6. Nandor & Stefan.