The vocabulary for participating in and presenting a CORE competition.
Registration: The initial event phase in which participants join and form teams before coding begins. Joining and roster changes also remain possible during coding until coding closes.
Coding:
The competition phase in which teams develop their bots and participate in matchmaking. Stored as PLAYING.
Avoid: Playing (in participant-facing text)
Submission deadline: The scheduled boundary after which development, participant matchmaking, registration, roster changes, and new bets close. Avoid: Event end, repo lock date
Code freeze:
The phase between coding and showtime, during which repositories are locked and the tournament can be prepared. Stored as SUBMISSIONS_CLOSED.
Avoid: Coding closed, Submissions closed, Repos locked, Break (in participant-facing text)
Showtime:
The presentation phase in which administrators present tournament games and reveal results to participants and spectators. Stored as SHOWCASE.
Avoid: Showcase (in participant-facing text)
Scheduled end: The advertised finish time of the whole event, including its showtime. Avoid: Submission deadline
Completion: The administrator-declared actual finish of the event, which may differ from its scheduled end.
Livestream intro: An optional introductory presentation before coding starts, without changing participant permissions.
Stream URL: The optional main stream link of an event, offered for the livestream intro and, unless a showtime stream is set, during showtime.
Showtime stream: An optional second stream link used from code freeze through showtime, replacing the stream URL there. The intro always uses the stream URL.
Implicit registration: Every signed-in user counts as registered for a public event and can create or join a team directly. Private events require explicit joining, restricted by the whitelist.
Reopening: An administrator's decision to resume coding with a new submission deadline while retaining existing tournament progress and results.
Tournament exclusion: An explicit administrator decision to omit a team from tournament participation.