[Icfp04-discuss] multiple ants in one game

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Clive Gifford wrote:

> What happens at the end of judging you end up with a non-transitive
> relationship between a number of top (final) contenders? For example, ant A
> beats ant B, ant B beats ant C, and ant C beats ant A (lets assume by
> similar margins in each case, and that they all clearly trounce all others
> in a one-on-one contest). In that case you might *need* to have a simulator
> that does this so you can run a tie-breaker!

But to be fair to all ants you'd need to run it in all 6 possible
combinations of starting positions, which could still result in a tie...

Ganesh