ACPC 2017: Call for Participation

[Kevin Waugh]

The Annual Computer Poker Competition will be held again in 2017, during the

month of January.  Martin Schmid will be the incoming chair of the competition

for this year and Kevin Waugh will be returning as the outgoing chair.  This

time, only the heads-up (two player) no-limit Texas Hold'em competition

will be held.

The plan is to use Amazon EC2 instances again this year, with a final

submission deadline of Friday January 13, 2017.  Note that these machines are

quite a bit less powerful than many desktop machines, so if computing resources

are a significant issue for you, please check that this is adequate.  We have

increase the maximum submission size to 250 GB this year.  The remaining

technical specifications remain the same as last year.  See

(http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/) for details on Amazon instance

types. It is possible to get access to a smaller testing instance through

Amazon for free by creating an EC2 account, and all competitors will get access

to a full sized competition machine for final testing at least one week prior

to the final submission deadline.

Any individuals or teams that wish to participate should send an email by

December 1 to ch...@computerpokercompetition.org expressing their interest.  If

you require any special software---anything that is not installed by default on

an Amazon EC2 instance---please let us know by December 1, so we can try to

make sure your requirements are met.  Your expression of interest email is not

a formal commitment, but lets us plan for the time and resources required to

run the competition.

Best,

 - Martin and Kevin