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		<title>Contest cancelled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's an unfortunate announcement, but the contest has been cancelled due to insufficient entries. The website and its downloads will remain accessible for future reference.]]></description>
		<link>http://indianapokerbot.com/20100820/contest-cancelled</link>
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		<title>Reminder: August 14th deadline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deadline for submissions is August 14th, less than a week away. Follow the submission instructions and expect a confirmation that it was received within a day. Due to time constraints we may be unable to tell you if your submission fails to compile or other problems. Remember, we do allow re-submissions up to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indianapokerbot.com/20100808/reminder-august-14th-deadline</link>
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		<title>One month left</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might notice that today, July 14th, is exactly one month before the contest deadline, August 14th (at midnight). Starting today, you can begin submitting your bot to make sure that you have a valid submission. Simply follow the instructions for submitting a bot, and we will let you know whether your bot compiles and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indianapokerbot.com/20100715/one-month-left</link>
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		<title>Errors when running bots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I've found out that there have been a few oversights in the "writing a bot" instructions. Java's classpath First and foremost, the instructions neglected the importance of setting Java's classpath. As you might already know, Java searches all of the paths in the $CLASSPATH variable for the classes you reference via "import" statements. Importing com.indianapokerbot.bot.PokerClient [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indianapokerbot.com/20100621/errors-when-running-bots</link>
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		<title>Participants, how&#8217;s it going?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are 66 days until August 14th, the deadline, and we hope things are going well. If you haven't started yet, download the code and get started.  The sooner the better---you know how these things just take time to sink in.  If you have, please let us know how it's going.  If you're having issues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indianapokerbot.com/20100610/participants-hows-it-going</link>
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		<title>2010 Contest Information Now Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's here! The rules, software, and documentation you'll need for the 2010 Indiana Poker Programming Contest are now online.  You should probably read the rules first, and then read each of the three parts of the documentation.  The documentation will get you started with using ACPC's poker server and writing your own poker bots. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indianapokerbot.com/20100522/2010-contest-information-now-online</link>
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		<title>Contest Prizes Adjustment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's not the kind of announcement we like to make, but due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to lower the prize amounts for this contest. The new prizes are $200 for first place and $100 for second place. This website has been updated to reflect the new amounts, but emails and posters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indianapokerbot.com/20100512/contest-prizes-adjustment</link>
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		<title>Introduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the Indiana Poker Programming Contest? This is a programming contest in which participants write their own Texas Hold'em poker AI. The AIs, or poker bots, then compete with each other in a computerized poker tournament. Who is running this? We are a group of Indiana University students sponsored by Indiana University's School of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://indianapokerbot.com/20100411/introduction</link>
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