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I peaked at around 21st but stopped playing because it seemed to be a lottery.

I ran simulations with perfect information and found the lower bound for scores. Scenario 2 was mean 3743 rejections with 265 std deviation. This is the curve formed from simulated data and a strategy that had with perfect information, i.e. you could build the best possible strategy after knowing the random assignments.

So winners had scores that I could not even theoretically achieve unless I could see 1000s of scenarios.

So I ran my code locally and was happy that my code was always just a few rejections off of optimal and called that a private success.



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