Tournament Front Matter

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Goal

Add tournament front matter that will be featured in the tournament.

Context

Tournament front matter includes sections excluding questions that appear in tournaments on Metaculus.

For example, the Our World In Data (OWID) tournament has the front matter sections {Background, Tournament Prize Structure, Tournament Scoring, Expected Resolution, End Date & Leaderboard Functionality, Dealing With Extinction} and the Bridgewater Forecasting Contest has {Background, Tips And More, A Message From Bridgewater Associates, Contest Rules} as its front matter sections.

Front matter is needed to give participants context on how the tournament is run, including how the tournament is structured and scored. A more detailed discussion on the Genetic Evolution's tournament front matter can be found here. Note that as this discussion matures, the content of this issue, particularly the Tasks section, might change slightly.

Tasks

The following front matter sections need to approach a stable state:

• Background
• About GET
• Goals
• Prize Structure & Scoring
  • Commenting Prize
  • Forecasting Prize
  • Scoring
• Question Themes
• Expected Resolutions
• Administration
• Leaderboard Functionality
• Timeline
• Dealing With Catastrophe And Or Extinction
• Feedback

Not Covered In This Issue

• Comments and considerations regarding what to include within each front matter section
• Comments and considerations regarding which front matter sections to have in GET

Resources & Links

• Discussion on front matter sections & their content
• Biosecurity tournament (example)
• Our World In Data Tournament (example)
• Bridgewater Forecasting Contest (example)
• Sagan Space Tournament (example)
• Climate Tipping Points (example)

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The Dedication and Acknowledgement sections will be added once the tournament is released.

See issue #30 .

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The author has converged on the following Front Matter content:

- front_matter/background.qmd (about future and current impact of human DNA and reproductive manipulation) 
- front_matter/about.qmd (big picture background on GET)
- front_matter/goals.qmd (goals that GET has)
- front_matter/hosting.qmd (where and GET hosted)
- front_matter/administration.qmd (how GET is being administered)
- front_matter/contact.qmd (emails for the authors)
- front_matter/structure.qmd (GET tournament and prize structure)
- front_matter/scoring.qmd (GET forecast question scoring remarks)
- front_matter/resolutions.qmd (remarks on the resolution of questions)
- front_matter/end_dates.qmd (remarks on the end dates of questions)
- front_matter/external_considerations.qmd (remarks on external considerations)
- front_matter/timeline.qmd (a timeline of development)
- front_matter/feedback.qmd (a section on avenues to provide feedback)

For this issue, Background and Timeline are not covered; these topics will receive their own issues. See #34 and #35, respectively. The sections covered in this current issue will of course be updated as updates come along.

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Editing and fixing some of the README and preface will occur in this issue. An MVP about section consisting of the README contents will be included.

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The following are not going to be included in this issue on the basis that the content that would have occupied these sections occurs in Structure.

- front_matter/resolutions.qmd
- front_matter/end_dates.qmd