{"id":257551,"date":"2018-04-25T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T08:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=257551"},"modified":"2018-04-25T10:08:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T08:08:58","slug":"entelect-challenge-2018-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/257551-entelect-challenge-2018-kicks-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Entelect Challenge 2018 kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Entelect announced that the <a href=\"https:\/\/challenge.entelect.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2018 Entelect Challenge<\/strong><\/a> has officially launched.<\/p>\n<p>The event will run from 25 April and the finals will take place at Comic Con Africa on 15 September 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Each year the organisation builds the challenge around a popular game theme, and this year&#8217;s challenge is based on Tower Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Entelect will run a mini playoffs series, a staggered strategy component, and a grand final playoff event.<\/p>\n<p>The series of mini-playoffs will allow contestants to pitch their bots against other players throughout the year and stand a chance of winning entrance to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Three mini-playoffs will take place during the year, with the last round determining six of the eight finalists.<\/p>\n<p>Prize money for this year&#8217;s Entelect Challenge is R200,000, which will be divided across the mini-playoffs series and finals, with the biggest component awarded at the finals at Comic Con Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Grand finals prize amounts are listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1st place &#8211; <\/strong>R70,000<\/li>\n<li><strong>2nd place &#8211; <\/strong>R35,000<\/li>\n<li><strong>3rd and 4th place &#8211; <\/strong>R25,000<\/li>\n<li><strong>5th to 8th place &#8211; <\/strong>R10,000<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Entelect runs the Challenge every year to bring the software community together and make the world of programming and machine learning more accessible.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/232715-winners-of-r200000-entelect-challenge-announced.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Winners of R200,000 Entelect Challenge announced<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entelect announced that the 2018 Entelect Challenge has officially launched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":257553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[27887,49015,44816,13635,50289],"class_list":["post-257551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-ai","tag-comic-con-africa","tag-deep-learning","tag-entelect","tag-entelect-challenge-2018"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257635,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257551\/revisions\/257635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}