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November 4th, 2005

Marko Stefanovic wins Twilight, Past the Post challenge announced

Marko Stefanovic is the winner of our Twilight phase of the contest, developing his entry in isolation. Rounding out the top five are the team of Hannes Naude & Cobus Potgieter, Per Rutquist, A. Nieto-Castanon, and artiom myaskouvskey. Many other contestants submitted impressive entries that will provide great inspiration for Daylight. You can see a listing of the top 25 in both Darkness and Twilight on the Statistics page.

We switched to a new test suite at the end of Twilight. The fine-tuning that you did for the original has been lost, so scores are now coming in a little higher than Marko’s winner entry. For example, his winning entry used to score about 189 and now scores about 203. We’re offering a Past the Post prize to the contestant who can bring us back below 188.5860.

By Matthew Simoneau

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