My summaries of the talks for #Sprouts2024 are up: https://combinatorialgametheory.blogspot.com/2024/04/sprouts-2024-talks.html

Thanks to the presenters who made this year so successful! #UndergraduateResearch #CombinatorialGames

#Sprouts2024 happened yesterday and it was great! I uploaded the players submitted and added them to the Gorgons page, so you can play against them: http://kyleburke.info/DB/combGames/gorgons.html

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@emptygame

For the Gorgons tournaments at #Sprouts2024 this weekend, we'll use an 8 x 8 board with 3 Gorgons on each team. http://kyleburke.info/DB/combGames/gorgons.html

Come to Sprouts! Listen to undergrads talk about games, etc. It's online (Zoom) and registration is free: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/

Students here at #FloridaSouthernCollege who attend #Sprouts2024 get one of these cool notebooks.

(I think they're cool.)

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#Sprouts2024 has more talks lined up than we've ever had before (11)!
Undergrads: 7 (high is 8, in 2017)
High schoolers: 2 (new high)
Keynote: 1
Me: 1.

Talks listed here: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/

I should probably record my talk (CGT Crash Course) and move it online in future years to make more room for contributed talks!

Unfortunately, we still have zero submissions for our Computer Gorgons Tournament. Make a player: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/sprouts2024ComputerTournament.php

#CombinatorialGames #UndergraduateResearch

In preparation for #Sprouts2024, I updated my Swiss #Tournament organizer to automatically add a player to act as the BYE if there are an odd number of actual players: http://kyleburke.info/swissTournamentOrganizer.php.

(Someone told me a few months ago that there was a problem with matching players if there was an odd number of players. I don't remember who that was!)

Please let me know if you notice any issues!

We have a date for #Sprouts2024! Saturday, April 20. Registration is free. http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/ As with recent years, the conference will be held online.

If you have an undergrad who wants to present a short talk on games, please check out our Call for Talks: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/#callForTalks Topics are not strictly limited to #CombinatorialGames and can include other games and puzzles. We are not limited to a Math and CS focus and would love to see some humanities talks. #UndergraduateResearch

We will have #GorgonsGame tournaments (http://kyleburke.info/DB/combGames/gorgons.html) for both human and AI players (http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/sprouts2024ComputerTournament.php).

#SproutsConference

I talked about the Game of Gorgons at #FloridaSouthern yesterday. The talk went very well, but the best part was clearly the game of me vs the audience. I recently added blocks to the middle of the starting game board, which makes the game far more fun. You can try it out here: http://kyleburke.info/DB/combGames/gorgons.html (The AI is still terrible, but it can be fun if you find either a human to play with or just jack up the number of opponent Gorgons.)

#Gorgons will be "the game" played at #Sprouts2024, so practice up and prepare your own AI player!

Talk Slides: http://kyleburke.info/presentations/2023-09-14-Gorgons-Talk.pdf

The #Sprouts2024 webpage is up: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/ Our keynote speaker will be Michael Fisher from West Chester University of PA.

You can play around with writing a Gorgons player for our computer player tournament: http://kyleburke.info/sprouts/sprouts2024/sprouts2024ComputerTournament.php

We haven't yet picked a Saturday in April for the conference, but we're working on it. If you know any undergrads who will be working on anything related to combinatorial or mathematical games, please have them consider giving a talk! If you have a student who might be looking for an AI project, suggest to them to take part in the Gorgons player competition!

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