I recommended the score being simply the total number of tries, with the restriction that each program is tested with the same multiset of solutions. I'd now like to augment this with the condition that there be only a few (say three) different (v, p) pairs tested (in the scoring runs at least), and the score and winner computed separately for each pair, because the submissions can behave really differently for each pair, so there's no fair scoring algorithm that works. (I also suggested elsewhere in this thread that these few parameter pairs be published in advance.)

(And yes, I want to write a submission, I even have an idea, but I don't have much time on my hands now because of, you know, Real Life occupations. Sorry.)

(Update: I'm not saying I'll write a well-scoring solution or have a good idea, I just mean some working submission and some idea.)

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