Jury Session Record of the 19th of December 2007Organizing the Automated Trading Championship 2007, we cared about the purity of the competition and equality of conditions for all Participants. For this purpose before the Championship start we carried out automated checking of all Expert Advisors and prospective Participants for multiple registrations. This checking was aimed at revealing groups of almost identical Expert Advisors written by one developer, but sent under different names. Thus developers try to increase their chances for winning. Having conducted such a check before the Championship, we prevented the participation of many developers. For this reason the prize-winner of the previous Championship (GODZILLA) does not participate in the current competition. Besides, a group consisting of 14 EAs from one developer from Italy was not admitted to the Championship. The automated checkup helped to avoid many problems. We checked quite easily 2000 prospective participants and two thirds of them were not admitted. However it was almost impossible to check the remaining 603 participants manually. At that, for preventing the undeserved winning of frauds, we decided to check manually the leading 10 Participants of the Championship. For this purpose we gathered the information from Participants' authorization logs on the Championship website and on the trading server. We were interested in multiple logins to different accounts from one and the same IP-address. During the last week of the Championship we checked the logs and found out that authorizations for accounts of 14 Indonesian Participants were made from the same IP-addresses. In other words one developer has submitted 14 copies of one Expert Advisor (which is actually a standard Moving Average EA) with insufficient changes and regularly checked it on all 14 accounts. Examination of compiled EX4 files showed the presence of a unique text line "Error in history" (text lines are not encoded) in EA bodies which proves their identity. This fact violates the following rules of the Automated Trading Championship 2007:
One of these 14 Participants is the "developer" under the nickname admadinata, which is now among the leading positions and is contending for the prize. However the revealed violations of the Championship rules do not allow him to participate and demand his disqualification. It was decided to call a new session of the Jury. The Jury Members voted about disqualification of the above Participants.
The Jury decided to disqualify the above Participants by a majority of votes. Created: 2007.12.20 Author: MetaQuotes
who is on the 3-rd place?
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ttauzo
2007.12.20 20:41
admadinata wrote:
lkc009 wrote: i agree with youthe problem is usually trader in indonesia using GPRS from GSM company Excelindo, so maybe same IP for conecting, I know someone enter this championship but disqualified before contest begin, because he using GPRS its not fair........ :(
We analyzed not only IP addresses. We analyzed also registrations, autorizations and logins logs. 2007.12.20 18:24
lkc009 wrote: i agree with youthe problem is usually trader in indonesia using GPRS from GSM company Excelindo, so maybe same IP for conecting, I know someone enter this championship but disqualified before contest begin, because he using GPRS its not fair........ :( the problem is usually trader in indonesia using GPRS from GSM company Excelindo,
so maybe same IP for conecting, I know someone enter this championship but disqualified
before contest begin, because he using GPRS
I wish these things never happen, but it has. :(
On next competition (if there is one), hopefully fellow competitors put honesty above all, and the organizer states the regulations more clearly what's allowed and what's not. Most of them are indonesians. Would you mind to announce how do you indicate them
to violate multiple registration rules? If it's from their IP's, please consider
your disqualification. We're still listed as a 3rd world country, personal internet
connection still could be considered luxurious and many user share their IP although
using different computers and different places.
Thank you 2007.12.20 16:26
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