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I love the way the challenge will change every day in this contest, and the addition of an opponent makes the challenge much more interesting.  But I have some concerns to voice also:

- A lot of my entries in Twilight are timing out.  I suspect this is because Jan's winning entry takes much longer to run than the original strategy, thus leaving essentially no time for the contender.  Is this true?  Can the contest machinery adjust the time computation by subtracting the time taken by the "house ant" software?

- Related to the above, I am concerned that it may be impossible to beat the score of the Darkness winner when faced with a more capable house ant.  Of course, there are a lot of clever people working on this contest so I may be wrong about this one.  Nevertheless, we may hit a point where the house ant gets so good that the scores move backwards rather than forwards.