This is the event that started the AI Olympics, and now it's back! Time to work on that dribble, no-look pass, lay-up, and fade-away for the upcoming AI Olympics Basketball Tournament. The round-robin tournament will feature 30 minute games occuring simultaneously with 10 minute inter-game shooting festivities. As in all Olympic events, participation is the key to winning and more importantly having fun.

When and Where:

Basketball Rules! (pickup game style)

• Round-robin tournament
• Two 15-minutes halves with a 2-minute halftime for team strategizing (or wheezing by the water).
• 5 (or fewer) players from each team on the court during play.
• A non-playing member from each team will ref.
• Ball will be inbounded from half court after a foul (no free throws).
• Player substitutions allowed only after a dead ball (foul or shot scored).

Game Scoring (entropic)

• Shots inside (or on) 3-point line worth 1 point each.
• Shots outside 3-point line worth 2 (yes two) points.
• Total team score = points * [entropy(shot attempt distribution) + 1] where the shot attempt distribution is the distribution of the identities of the shot attempters. For example, if team A scores 10 points, but only two players made shot attempts with each of the two players shooting 5 times, then score for team A = 10 * 2 = 20. If team B scores 5 points, but 9 players 20.8495 so team B would win.

Shooting Contest Scoring

• Object is to maximize total distance: sum of distance of each shot made.
• Each team member gets 2 shot attempts.

Composite Score

• Ordinal scores determined by number of games won.
• All ties broken by number of participants (team members that play regardless of shot attempts, etc.).
• Final score for the event will be the Olympic usual 5, 3, 2, 1.

Brief History