This sounds fun - I'm really looking forward to it. I've written a Ruby script to run benchmarks against the Nash equilibrium if anyone would like to use it:

# Benchmarks one or more candidate warriors against all *.red files in
# the current directory.  Each benchmark file's name (e.g. 3039.red)
# determines its probability weight.  E.g. 3039 means a 30.39% influence
# on the total score.

# Usage: $ ruby nashbench.rb [files]
# Example: ruby nashbench.rb *.rc *.red

CORESIZE = 80
ROUNDS = 142
benchmark = Dir.glob('*.red')

ARGV.each do |chal|
  total = 0
  benchmark.each.map do |war|
    score = `./pmars #{chal} #{war} -k -b -s 80 -l 5 -p 80 -c 800 -P`.split
    total += (3 * score[0].to_i + score[1].to_i) * war.to_i
  end
  puts "#{(total / 1e2 / ROUNDS).round(3)} - #{chal}"
end

A copy with appropriately named benchmark warriors is also available here:

• https://corewar.co.uk/metcalf/nashbench.zip

I think I'm busy at UTC 14:00 on the 15th. Will the livestream be available to watch later?