New hackathon project from James and Ian just dropped:

I think the idea is really cool and I like that it encourages people in leagues to talk to each other, as well as have a single person who's responsible for mentoring them. (I'd advise renaming "owner" to "mentor", as it clarifies their intended role -- to help out others in the league and give them advice on how to proceed)

this payout structure is seriously bad for Manifold economics

, subject to exploits and shenanigans, and as currently written the most likely thing is that we'll end up wanting to patch this. For reference, currently:

Things that bother me about this structure:

Will we end up changing this system, or wishing that we had changed this system? Resolves to some TBD metric -- definitely resolves YES if arguments lead to us changing the system before the final payout, and also resolves YES if some kind of poll or consensus among Manifold team and community finds that it was a bad setup.