COVID Challenge Scoring

Overview

Round 1 of the COVID Challenge will be scored for all teams over their first 50 hours of gameplay. Everything players do will be monitored and certain actions are worth more points than others. All scoring is detailed below.

Teams can monitor their challenge progress here

Core Gameplay

The points below outline the actions that will be evaluated during the BEST Robotics Polycraft COVID Challenge. All actions have a maximum possible score beyond which repeated actions earn 0 points. While nearly all actions are repeatable, the core milestones will only earn in-game and score-wise rewards once. The actions taken by all players on the same team will be aggregated when scoring. Only the first fifty hours of gameplay and actions taken by players on a team will be summed when calculating your team's round score.

For example: If Team A had 10 players each play for exactly five hours, then all actions taken by all of those players will be summed and scored. At this point, Team A has played for a collective 50 hours. If Team A then had two players log in the next day and continue playing, since the fifty hour limit has already been reached, their actions will not be scored.

Action	Points/Action	Max Score
Crafting Tree Taps	2	1024
Smelting Rubber Blocks	4	2048
Milestone 1: Building a Clinic	16384	16384
Crafting DNA Sampler	2	1024
Crafting COVID Test Kit (Beginner)	4	2048
Crafting COVID Test Kit (Intermediate)	8	4096
Crafting COVID Test Kit (Advanced)	16	8192
Crafting COVID Test Kit (Expert)	64	32768
Testing Patients	16	8192
Keeping a Healthy Patient Healthy	128	32768
Creating PPE Faceshields	4	2048
Creating PPE Chestguards	8	4096
Creating PPE Leggings	8	4096
Creating PPE Boots	4	2048
Milestone 2: Stocking & Activating the Clinic	16384	16384
Crafting Syringes	16	4096
Taking Blood Samples	4	1024
Crafting Convalescent Plasma Treatments	32	8192
Successfully Curing Patients	64	8192
Milestone 3: Curing 128 Patients	8192	8192
Curing Patient 128+	16	2048
Successful Completion of an Escape Room	8192	16384

Bonus Points: Patient Waves

After activating the Clinic, patients will spawn in waves during dawn and dusk. Each wave lasts for 8500 ticks, about 7 minutes. Successful wave completion will provide bonus points in accordance to the chart below. To complete a wave, a target threshold of patients must remain healthy or be cured before the time runs out. Unsuccessful completion of the wave will not cause any harm; teams will be faced with the same size wave again and again until they complete it successfully.

Level	Threshold	Wave Size	Target Healthy/Cured	Bonus Points
1	50%	4	2	512
2	50%	8	4	1024
3	50%	12	6	1536
4	50%	16	8	2048
5	66%	20	14	2560
6	66%	24	16	3072
7	66%	28	19	3584
8	66%	32	22	4096
9	75%	36	27	4608
10	75%	40	30	5120
11	75%	44	33	5632
12	75%	48	36	6144

Bonus Points: Polycrafting

Playing Polycraft World during this challenge is encouraged, but not necessary, to be successful during Round 1. Polycrafting will earn scoring rewards in accordance of the chart below. Players will be best served aiming to attain points by completing the core milestones demonstrated above.

Action	Points	Max Score
Crafting Polycraft Inventories:
-Crafting a Machining Mill	1024	1024
-Crafting an Injection Molder	1024	1024
-Crafting an Extruder	1024	1024
-Crafting a Distillation Column	1024	1024
-Crafting a Condenser	1024	1024
-Crafting an Industrial Oven	1024	1024
-Crafting a Plastic Chest	2048	2048
Crafting Polycraft Tools:
-Gripped Tools	8	1024
-Pogo Sticks	16	1024
-Running Shoes	16	1024

Traps/Pitfalls

Causing harm to patients in your clinic will cause a reduction in points. “Harm” includes the spreading of infection that may occur within your clinic’s vicinity due to inadequate care provided by the clinicians. This is the only way to lose points in this challenge.

Action	Cost/Action
Healthy Patient Getting Infected.	-32
Death of a Patient:
-Caused by a team member	-2048
-Caused by the environment (e.g. falling/suffocating)	-64
-Caused by a mob (Spider/Creeper/Zombie/etc)	-64

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