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I'm one of the guys behind this. I realize it's MIT students only right now (we have a special 1-month term in January with no classes for competitions like this) but if there's enough interest we would love to hold an open tournament in the next few months.

We're also looking at opening our scrimmage server up to the public this month if there are enough people who want the intellectual fulfillment of competing :)

Edit: Created a small mailing list. Feel free to sign up if you want to be updated when we decide to launch an open tournament (towards the end of the month, most likely).

http://mitpokerbots.com/interest

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This looks really interesting to me. I'm curious to see the rules-- does it differ much from the AAAI poker competition [1]?

[1] http://www.computerpokercompetition.org/

Thanks for setting this up - it sounds really awesome. Could you set up a mailing list or something where we can subscribe to updates?

Yep, on it right now. Will post the link in a few minutes.

Edit: It's up, see my above comment.

Will we get a chance to compete against MIT students?

That's mostly what I'm interested in; I'll either get schooled by MIT, or school MIT. Yes this is a counterchallenge. ;)

Sorry if this is a silly question, but where does the name come from? Googling 6.912 turns up references to "MIT 6.912 Introduction to Copyright Law".

All of our classes are identified using numbers. The 6 corresponds to the sponsoring department (EECS) and 912 happened to be available within the department, so we snagged it.

will the open tournament be limited to python as well? I've got a fair code base invested in F# already laying about.

Indeed, I am definitely interested in participating in the open tournament, but would love to be able to use something other than Python. I don't have any code except for some really old stuff I did for fun, but I would love to keep working on it using Ruby.

If I create an open platform where you can run your own server/bot, would you want to participate? Does this not already exist?

i'm interested.

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