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By Ayushrusiya47, history, 6 months ago, In English

Hi,
I recently watched a Veritasium video based on prisoner's dilemma, a Game Theory problem. In the video he mentioned that a scientist, Robert Axelrod, held a tournament where he invited programmers to submit programs for playing the game and he matched them against each other and scored and ranked them.

This type of tournament sounds really interesting, your programs will not run on fixed test cases but against each other! I tried to find platforms that have these type of contests and I found codingame.com. This website have games where you can submit your bot to play against others. I haven't explored it much yet but it looks interesting.

What is your view on this type of contest, can we get them on Codeforces maybe. Also if you know any other competitions or platforms that have this type of contests, please share.

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While this does sound really cool, I'm not too sure whether these kind of problems are what codeforces should be expected to have: game problems where you play against each other are not traditionally competitive programming problems, but I do see how they naturally fit the definition of competitive programming