The Automated Trading Championship 2006 started two days ago. A total of 258 Expert Advisors are now competing for first place. Unfortunately, not everything went like clockwork.

• Once the Championship had started, some traders asked: "Why was not I registered?" The reason was some fields were not completed at registration, although they all had to be filled out. Some questions arose concerning identification documents. Some countries do not require internal passports, therefore some participants did not know what to specify in the corresponding fields at registration. This question was answered several times on our forum: You could use your driving license instead of a passport or any other document that identifies you in your country. There were many rejections due to multiple registrations from the same IP address, "cousinly" and "friendly" registrations, as well as the usage of anonymous proxy servers.
  
• The Participants' Expert Advisors were launched on the 30th September; the logs of terminals and experts had been cleaned by the 1st October. Therefore, no records about the loading and initialization of experts are in the published logs. There is nothing to worry about here - all experts were launched properly.
  
• Unfortunately, the full history of charts was not downloaded to all terminals. This was rectified by the evening of the 1st October. We apologize for this bug.
• The Data Center and Trade Server have been reconfigured several times since the Championship's start. Due to this there are records like "ping failed" in the logs of the client terminal. The Participants should not worry about this - this is a standard report.
• Some Experts generated too many logs. We decided not to publish their logs nor disqualify the experts yet. However, if the hard disk becomes overloaded by these logs it will disturb other experts working. The former Experts will be disqualified.
• We detected Two Participants whose experts took almost 100% of the CP resources. If an investigation proves that it is an infinite loop, the Jury will decide on whether to disqualify these Participants.
• Subsequently due to the result of one-days work, we decided to modify a number of web services in order not to overload the Championship Website.