Where and how was this contest advertised?

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The reason I am asking is because the leaderboard states there are 15k players!?

I found out very late about this, during season 2. So I really would like to know how 14k players at least got to know about this contest sooner than i did and months in advance on top of that!

How to make sure i stay on top of things and know well in advance stuff like this?

Is c1games going to make a different contest after season 2 ends?

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Well it got real big, when the youtuber Codebullet made a video about this (Thats why Im here aswell) then Sentdex (another youtuber).
Otherwise I think there were mostly just smaller competitions for certain universities etc. (And some students decided to stick around)
Cant answer your question about C1‘s future plans though.

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There will be more seasons and competitions after season 2

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Same here for the Codebullet challenge. I saw his video in my feed a couple days before I heard about my university’s live event. I imagine quite a few names say “Joined Oct XX” because of it, he’s a pretty popular YouTuber.

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I found out about it from chatter in the Halite.io competition forum, there’s still loads of time left, ive started about 2 weeks and made it to the top 20 with a static bot plus a few tweaks. So I’m guessing theres a few less than 15k active players. A decent static list ‘gun’ or ‘maze’ algo get you in the top 100 right away.

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Well, if you look further into the statistics, it also says 9000 algorithms or so. And since everyone can upload 6 algos at a time we definetly have less players than it actually says. I scrolled all the way down the leaderboard before (Im not going to do that again, it takes ages) and I remember there being about 1200 total players. This might have changed though.

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