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competition

vr.tr.competition · ACT.ACT

Let an agent handle competition by setting, parties, rules, fairness and outcomes, and separate market competition from organised contests.

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Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle competition by setting, parties, rules, fairness and outcomes, and separate market competition from organised contests.

Rivalry in which two or more parties strive for something that cannot be fully shared, such as a prize, market, resource or recognition, including organised competitions such as olympiads, game jams and coding challenges.

What it is for: Ranking, selecting and motivating, and allocating resources in markets and nature.

It can be organise a competition with rules; enter and compete; judge fairly; regulate market competition.

Distinguishing features

Parties strive for a limited good

Organised or spontaneous

Fairness and rules matter

Market competition is regulated by law

What it looks like

Contests, leagues, tenders, markets and rivalries.

How it is recognised

Rules, entrants and a way of deciding winners

Markets with several sellers

Ecological competition between organisms

Related models

is a kind of - category

rivalry and interaction

includes - organised forms

contest and championship

is regulated by - markets

competition law

is the opposite of - interaction

cooperation

In practice

Families and kinds

organised contests and olympiads

hackathons and game jams

sports competitions

market competition

ecological competition

Standards and regulation

Competition and antitrust law

Prize promotion and lottery rules

Child protection in youth competitions

Failure modes and hazards

Unfair or unclear rules

Cartels and collusion

Excessive pressure on participants

Also called

quiz bowl leaguemushairanation at competitioncoding challengegame jamschool olympiad in PolandKnowledge OlympiadConcours généraleconomics olympiadEnglish language Olympiadgeography olympiadInternational Hindi Olympiadphysics olympiadastronomy olympiadchemistry olympiadhistory olympiadGerman language olympiadBiology OlympiadTuymaadaAustralian Computational and Linguistics OlympiadThe Big ChallengeDeutsche Neurowissenschaften-OlympiadePhysics OlympiadAll-Russian School OlympiadGeography competition for Primary and Secondary Schoolsecology olympiadBrazilian Chemistry OlympiadUnited States National Chemistry Olympiadspeedrunning100% speedrunany% speedrun1 credit clearMinecraft speedrunninglow% speedrunreal-time attacksegmented speedrunSuper Mario Bros. speedrunningtool-assisted speedrunarms racenuclear arms race

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.competition-act

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Setting Which competition.

Setting decides rules.

Kind

Contest, market, nature.

Kind

Competition type.

  1. Is this an organised contest, a market or ecological competition? definition
  2. Which specific entry fits? action

Parties

Who competes.

Parties

Competitors.

  1. Who is competing, and for what? definition
  2. How many? measurement
Rules Fairness.

Rules make competition fair.

Rulebook

Terms.

Rulebook

Rules.

  1. What are the rules and eligibility criteria? provenance
  2. Are they published in advance? boundary

Judging

Deciding winners.

Judging

Judging.

  1. How are winners decided? definition
  2. How are conflicts of interest handled? boundary
Outcomes Results.

Results need records.

Results

Rankings.

Results

Results.

  1. Who won, and where are results published? provenance
  2. Can results be appealed? action

Prizes

Awards.

Prizes

Prizes.

  1. What prizes are given? definition
  2. What tax or legal rules apply? boundary
Markets Economic competition.

Markets need competition law.

Structure

Concentration.

Structure

Market structure.

  1. How concentrated is the market? measurement
  2. By which measure? provenance

Law

Antitrust.

Law

Competition law.

  1. Could this conduct breach competition law? boundary
  2. Which authority oversees it? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should organised and market competition be separate entries?
  • How should competition rules be recorded?
  • How should ecological competition be linked?