by smiley1983 » Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:53 pm
Yes, I agree that taking organizers out of the official final rankings would work. That just leaves the small problem of the codebase before the big problem of actually trying to run such a thing.
I should also add that if I were running a server myself, I wouldn't try to run anything "official" to begin with, more likely something along the lines of the beta testing server which ran before Ants, but offering a game like Chess or Tron to avoid creating a large pool of beta testers with months of extra knowledge of the specific contest problem.
I've looked more at the zeta codebase, and it's less complete than I had hoped. That means that the fastest path to a working server probably involves building from the epsilon codebase, but I don't want to do that myself. I'm still thinking about the options, learning a bit about sandboxes and hoping someone else acts first.