{"rowid": 902, "Castle 1": 100, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 0, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "i am guaranteed one point"}
{"rowid": 901, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 0, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 100, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Someone will try going for 10, just sending all their troops there.  Heck, many people may try that.  I want to guarantee to get castle 9, and hopefully split it among fewer people."}
{"rowid": 900, "Castle 1": 35, "Castle 2": 30, "Castle 3": 30, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 5, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "You only need to win the top 3 castles and the last castle to claim victory (~51% of total points) and since these castles were way underdeployed last time, a big shot in the arm should be enough to take each of them. Since I am completely abandoning the rest, I should be able to over deploy the rest and win the castles that matter."}
{"rowid": 899, "Castle 1": 32, "Castle 2": 26, "Castle 3": 23, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 19, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "The deployment aims to get 3 out of four of castles 10,9,8,6, which always gives you over 23 points.  I believe most people will spread their troops more evenly."}
{"rowid": 898, "Castle 1": 34, "Castle 2": 30, "Castle 3": 30, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 6, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "The top 3 castles and any other castle will win it.  This strategy allows me to big bid on the high value castle."}
{"rowid": 897, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 0, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 100, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Just to see what happens"}
{"rowid": 896, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 0, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 100, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Because I am hoping nobody else would send 100 troops to castle ten, because they want to have stake in everything, or something else. They also wouldn't be stpid enough to take this calculated risk, like me. It is also hard to amass 10 victory points by a combination."}
{"rowid": 895, "Castle 1": 31, "Castle 2": 26, "Castle 3": 23, "Castle 4": 11, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 2, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 2, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Because I like being right... and I can see the future. Crown me the victor 583!"}
{"rowid": 894, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 1, "Castle 5": 1, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 1, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 91, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "HOLD THAT L!!"}
{"rowid": 893, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 1, "Castle 5": 1, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 1, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 91, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Why not."}
{"rowid": 892, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 13, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 62, "Castle 6": 5, "Castle 7": 2, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 11, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Random solution meant to help my initial submission."}
{"rowid": 891, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 1, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 1, "Castle 8": 2, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 90, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I had no strategy I just wanted to participate"}
{"rowid": 890, "Castle 1": 10, "Castle 2": 15, "Castle 3": 20, "Castle 4": 30, "Castle 5": 20, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 1, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "by gut feeling."}
{"rowid": 889, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 1, "Castle 5": 3, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 3, "Castle 8": 3, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 87, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "This is based off a a genetic algorithm fighting itself. If I had time I think a Monte Carlo based integer program would be interesting."}
{"rowid": 888, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 0, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 7, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 32, "Castle 10": 61, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Game theory is hard."}
{"rowid": 887, "Castle 1": 22, "Castle 2": 27, "Castle 3": 27, "Castle 4": 5, "Castle 5": 4, "Castle 6": 5, "Castle 7": 4, "Castle 8": 4, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I tried to hit as many high value castles while simultaneously giving myself a decent (>25%) chance of getting the smaller castles.  I looked at last time's data and tried to stay out of the \"no-man's land\" where additional troops wouldn't have made a difference against most opponents"}
{"rowid": 886, "Castle 1": 12, "Castle 2": 15, "Castle 3": 20, "Castle 4": 24, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 2, "Castle 7": 22, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Wild Guessing"}
{"rowid": 885, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 4, "Castle 3": 31, "Castle 4": 27, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 12, "Castle 8": 8, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Trying to defeat the winner from last round"}
{"rowid": 884, "Castle 1": 7, "Castle 2": 8, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 13, "Castle 5": 32, "Castle 6": 30, "Castle 7": 7, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Random solution meant to help my initial submission."}
{"rowid": 883, "Castle 1": 19, "Castle 2": 17, "Castle 3": 15, "Castle 4": 13, "Castle 5": 11, "Castle 6": 11, "Castle 7": 8, "Castle 8": 6, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I took the amount of points available and divided that by the number of troops so you'd get even troops per point available, and I rounded up and took some points from the bottom to reinforce the higher point value castles"}
{"rowid": 882, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 2, "Castle 4": 4, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 5, "Castle 7": 1, "Castle 8": 3, "Castle 9": 11, "Castle 10": 70, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Mostly ignored the previous tournament, though probably not a good idea because there are many \"joker players\" (players aiming only to create noise, with no intention to win, which quite unfortunately makes this more of a guessing social experiment, than a mathematical one). A simulation suggests that optimal mixed strategy should be randomising a plan around having some 50-80 men on castle 10, 0-25 on 9, 0-20 on 8,  0-10 on 7, and so on down to 0-3 on castle 1. This is one such random plan."}
{"rowid": 881, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 2, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 6, "Castle 7": 6, "Castle 8": 4, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 73, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "(see my other try)"}
{"rowid": 880, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 35, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 6, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 33, "Castle 8": 3, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 21, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Random solution meant to help my initial submission."}
{"rowid": 879, "Castle 1": 10, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 4, "Castle 4": 27, "Castle 5": 13, "Castle 6": 20, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 6, "Castle 9": 17, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Random solution meant to help my initial submission."}
{"rowid": 878, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 2, "Castle 4": 30, "Castle 5": 30, "Castle 6": 20, "Castle 7": 5, "Castle 8": 5, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "middle castles will be underplayed"}
{"rowid": 877, "Castle 1": 4, "Castle 2": 4, "Castle 3": 31, "Castle 4": 25, "Castle 5": 3, "Castle 6": 9, "Castle 7": 9, "Castle 8": 8, "Castle 9": 5, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Went a bit bigger than the winner's choice on the big castles and a bit smaller on the small castles."}
{"rowid": 876, "Castle 1": 12, "Castle 2": 12, "Castle 3": 7, "Castle 4": 7, "Castle 5": 23, "Castle 6": 23, "Castle 7": 13, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I looked at the last winner's strategy (1), found the strategy to beat the last winner by as many points as possible (2), and found the strategy to beat that strategy by as many points as possible (3). The goal is to get to 28 points as many times as possible, so I came up with an ideal strategy to do that, while also making sure that my troop deployment would beat 1, 2, and 3, as those would likely be popular picks."}
{"rowid": 875, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 1, "Castle 5": 1, "Castle 6": 2, "Castle 7": 21, "Castle 8": 31, "Castle 9": 41, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Outwit the guys who max castle 10. And don't half any points for the small ones"}
{"rowid": 874, "Castle 1": 14, "Castle 2": 14, "Castle 3": 14, "Castle 4": 14, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 14, "Castle 7": 14, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Getting 28 so that I can always have a majority amount of castle points."}
{"rowid": 873, "Castle 1": 18, "Castle 2": 16, "Castle 3": 15, "Castle 4": 13, "Castle 5": 11, "Castle 6": 9, "Castle 7": 7, "Castle 8": 5, "Castle 9": 4, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "If there is an optimal strategy for this game, it is beyond my modest abilities to figure out.  Also, with 1000+ entrants, trying to pick what the other entrants will do seems like a shot in the dark even with the data from the first game.  So I kept it simple and assigned soldiers proportionally to each castle's percentage of the total available points.  Rounding standardly, this worked out to exactly 100 soldiers."}
{"rowid": 872, "Castle 1": 3, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 21, "Castle 4": 21, "Castle 5": 21, "Castle 6": 21, "Castle 7": 4, "Castle 8": 4, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I estimated where most people would distribute their troops, assumed they would plan what I would plan to combat that. Then I tried to maximise a way of beating my own plan against them."}
{"rowid": 871, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 1, "Castle 5": 17, "Castle 6": 21, "Castle 7": 26, "Castle 8": 30, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I figure that too many people will overdeploy to castles 10 and 9, so it's not worth overdeploying to those castles.  I also figure that Castles 1-4 just aren't worth enough to overdeploy there.  But, I also want to capture any castle that anybody doesn't even try to defend.  So, I'll put a single defender on the 6 castles that I don't want to overdeploy to in order to pick up some cheap wins or ties.\n\nAs far as Castles 5-8, I figure those are the most valuable ones.  I also figure that Castle 8 is worth the most.  And, given that the winner last time put 30 there, I figure 30 seems to be about correct for that.  Then I just divvied up the rest of my troops in a configuration that makes some type of sense.\n\nI probably have no shot, but this is an interesting exercise, and I like seeing the data that comes out of this."}
{"rowid": 870, "Castle 1": 4, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 24, "Castle 4": 28, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 12, "Castle 7": 14, "Castle 8": 6, "Castle 9": 5, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Looked at deployment values from the inaugural battle & attempted to put myself above the 50th percentile for all castles."}
{"rowid": 869, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 2, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 17, "Castle 6": 19, "Castle 7": 21, "Castle 8": 36, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Victory"}
{"rowid": 868, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 5, "Castle 4": 4, "Castle 5": 48, "Castle 6": 5, "Castle 7": 19, "Castle 8": 5, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 9, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I created a random plan generator that kept track of the best point expectation out of a small number of attempts. Then I ran it many times. The one that survived I tested against many random troop deployments."}
{"rowid": 867, "Castle 1": 6, "Castle 2": 11, "Castle 3": 11, "Castle 4": 11, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 21, "Castle 7": 2, "Castle 8": 32, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Blind Guess"}
{"rowid": 866, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 2, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 2, "Castle 7": 11, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 26, "Castle 10": 51, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "This allows me to take advantage of those who completely ignore 1-6, and I believe the n+1 strategy will outfox likeminded competitors on castles 9 and 10. By essentially giving up competition at castle 8, I am making myself much more competitive for castle 7."}
{"rowid": 865, "Castle 1": 4, "Castle 2": 6, "Castle 3": 8, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 16, "Castle 6": 0, "Castle 7": 28, "Castle 8": 32, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "to win. rp"}
{"rowid": 864, "Castle 1": 13, "Castle 2": 21, "Castle 3": 5, "Castle 4": 5, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 16, "Castle 7": 10, "Castle 8": 8, "Castle 9": 5, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "It looks like people left castle 10 open last time, so I put troops there, however, as most people will likely see that, I focused my efforts on the also under-exploited castle 9, while still spreading troops in order to pick up other castles."}
{"rowid": 863, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 12, "Castle 3": 12, "Castle 4": 12, "Castle 5": 12, "Castle 6": 12, "Castle 7": 0, "Castle 8": 40, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Last time I tried to minimize the number of castles needed to get 28 while getting as close to 28 as possible with some soldiers in other castles to pick up stragglers. This time I went for more castles than the minimum needed and didn't go for any stragglers to try and maximize my chance at my win condition. If I only go for what I need and someone else goes for stragglers, then I have more soldiers to work with where they count. Maybe."}
{"rowid": 862, "Castle 1": 9, "Castle 2": 10, "Castle 3": 11, "Castle 4": 12, "Castle 5": 13, "Castle 6": 14, "Castle 7": 15, "Castle 8": 16, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "8 + castle score for first 8. It only takes 28 points to win. The bottom 7 castles add up to 28. Add in the 8th castle for a buffer and go all in, with a slight weighting towards higher castles."}
{"rowid": 861, "Castle 1": 35, "Castle 2": 25, "Castle 3": 5, "Castle 4": 5, "Castle 5": 5, "Castle 6": 5, "Castle 7": 5, "Castle 8": 5, "Castle 9": 5, "Castle 10": 5, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Generally, it looks like 5 will take many castles, but also the 10 and 9 castles are probably more efficient per soldier to win, so I massed there."}
{"rowid": 860, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 11, "Castle 4": 11, "Castle 5": 21, "Castle 6": 21, "Castle 7": 1, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 32, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Mind taking baby!"}
{"rowid": 859, "Castle 1": 12, "Castle 2": 11, "Castle 3": 2, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 11, "Castle 6": 15, "Castle 7": 17, "Castle 8": 26, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Minor tweaks to the previous winning strategy"}
{"rowid": 858, "Castle 1": 6, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 16, "Castle 4": 20, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 46, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 6, "Castle 10": 4, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Random solution meant to help my initial submission."}
{"rowid": 857, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 10, "Castle 3": 10, "Castle 4": 10, "Castle 5": 10, "Castle 6": 10, "Castle 7": 13, "Castle 8": 14, "Castle 9": 21, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I gave up on castles 1 (low value) and 10 (high conflict).  I distributed the extra troops to castle 9-7, focusing on trying to win castle 9."}
{"rowid": 856, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 17, "Castle 5": 1, "Castle 6": 21, "Castle 7": 1, "Castle 8": 27, "Castle 9": 29, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Just need 28 points lads! Also, who goes for #10 anyway?"}
{"rowid": 855, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 9, "Castle 7": 15, "Castle 8": 35, "Castle 9": 35, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I sent them to ones that seemed like a good idea."}
{"rowid": 854, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 3, "Castle 6": 4, "Castle 7": 5, "Castle 8": 11, "Castle 9": 21, "Castle 10": 51, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I don't know"}
{"rowid": 853, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 4, "Castle 7": 12, "Castle 8": 14, "Castle 9": 13, "Castle 10": 50, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "tested 100 random distributions for best round robin result, then hand tuned a little."}
{"rowid": 852, "Castle 1": 5, "Castle 2": 6, "Castle 3": 9, "Castle 4": 16, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 26, "Castle 7": 31, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 4, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Total points in the game equals 55. You need 23 points to win. May be silly but I took a low combination of numbers to equal 23 in order to win. Contingent i win all the castle I want but I added an extra guy on 9 in order to hopefully win a couple by luck. I suspect this might be a popular strategy since the data has been released but oh well."}
{"rowid": 851, "Castle 1": 5, "Castle 2": 5, "Castle 3": 10, "Castle 4": 15, "Castle 5": 20, "Castle 6": 25, "Castle 7": 17, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I  chose to go for the lower numbers because I thought most people would focus on the higher numbers"}
{"rowid": 850, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 11, "Castle 4": 6, "Castle 5": 3, "Castle 6": 30, "Castle 7": 2, "Castle 8": 12, "Castle 9": 34, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Ground it out with an evolutionary approach. There is no stable point, of course, but it was getting pretty goofy when I got to 19k entries (mostly by perturbing the most successful ones of each iteration), so I had to stop it at some point. I stopped it when it looked... kind of neat... and I needed my CPU for other things."}
{"rowid": 849, "Castle 1": 24, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 24, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 2, "Castle 7": 11, "Castle 8": 9, "Castle 9": 6, "Castle 10": 4, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "In general, I wanted to deploy more soldiers to higher value castles. I could see that the previous winner broke with this rule on three castles, so I adopted that part of his strategy, but with my sacrifices occurring at adjacent castles to his sacrifices. Basically, I started with the previous winner's strategy and then tried to anticipate how everyone else would react to the info provided."}
{"rowid": 848, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 1, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 21, "Castle 7": 24, "Castle 8": 31, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I want to get 28 points from castles 8,7,6,5,2.  Then I win."}
{"rowid": 847, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 0, "Castle 4": 1, "Castle 5": 12, "Castle 6": 14, "Castle 7": 12, "Castle 8": 15, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 44, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I spent a while playing around with genetic algorithms, this one ended up as the winner in a big run."}
{"rowid": 846, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 3, "Castle 5": 3, "Castle 6": 23, "Castle 7": 27, "Castle 8": 33, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Castles 9 and 10 are too high risk, high reward, and not necessarily needed.  6, 7, 8 and any combination of 3 castles (except for Castle 1) would grant you a win."}
{"rowid": 845, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 6, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 6, "Castle 5": 12, "Castle 6": 13, "Castle 7": 26, "Castle 8": 30, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Focusing on 7 and 8 while not sacrificing any with 0. I'm hoping I can beat the balanced people at 5 and 6 to and stealing where they put 0s or 1s. The ones who go heavy up top I hope to beat them at 8 and win most of the rest."}
{"rowid": 844, "Castle 1": 11, "Castle 2": 7, "Castle 3": 12, "Castle 4": 10, "Castle 5": 15, "Castle 6": 20, "Castle 7": 25, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "It could beat many of the lower troop submissions"}
{"rowid": 843, "Castle 1": 5, "Castle 2": 5, "Castle 3": 31, "Castle 4": 30, "Castle 5": 4, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 2, "Castle 8": 10, "Castle 9": 7, "Castle 10": 5, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I tried to beat the winning strategy from last time."}
{"rowid": 842, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 11, "Castle 4": 2, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 2, "Castle 7": 2, "Castle 8": 34, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 41, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "The most popular strategy will be picking numbers that sum to 28, the minimum to win, which can be most efficiently done by picking four distinct numbers. I noticed that either 10 or 8 was in all of these, so those had to be priority. I calculated the expected troop allocation to each of these ((castle #)*100/28) and added a few troops to ensure my victory at both. I sent 2 to each of the other castles to beat anyone that would only send 1, and the rest we dropped at 3, which could beat the expected troop allocation of 10.71."}
{"rowid": 841, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 0, "Castle 4": 3, "Castle 5": 3, "Castle 6": 3, "Castle 7": 23, "Castle 8": 41, "Castle 9": 24, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Stuck with strategy of de-emphasizing castle 10."}
{"rowid": 840, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 20, "Castle 4": 20, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 20, "Castle 7": 20, "Castle 8": 20, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I figure people will for the 10's and 9's. Also, the max number of points is 55, so all I need is 28 points to win. Therefore, I want to maximize my chances of winning every small skirmish that I need to get exactly 28."}
{"rowid": 839, "Castle 1": 10, "Castle 2": 10, "Castle 3": 12, "Castle 4": 14, "Castle 5": 16, "Castle 6": 18, "Castle 7": 20, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "To win you don't need an optimal strategy just one that allows your opponent to waste men. This may not be a good strategy but it scores well against a 'normal' attempt to win the big battles."}
{"rowid": 838, "Castle 1": 8, "Castle 2": 17, "Castle 3": 8, "Castle 4": 12, "Castle 5": 13, "Castle 6": 7, "Castle 7": 8, "Castle 8": 19, "Castle 9": 6, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Im strategic"}
{"rowid": 837, "Castle 1": 6, "Castle 2": 11, "Castle 3": 13, "Castle 4": 15, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 15, "Castle 7": 2, "Castle 8": 20, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "decided 9 and 10 weren't worth it. the last winner really put effort in to winning 8 and 7 and i expect competition to overcompensate but i can't let both go so i'm only trying to win 8. the winner also left 6 alone so im hoping i can sneak a win through. the rest was just eyeballing what i thought would work"}
{"rowid": 836, "Castle 1": 6, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 5, "Castle 4": 7, "Castle 5": 8, "Castle 6": 9, "Castle 7": 16, "Castle 8": 22, "Castle 9": 27, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Random; I thought to distribute the most to 7-9 and hope to win the small victories for small points."}
{"rowid": 835, "Castle 1": 6, "Castle 2": 8, "Castle 3": 9, "Castle 4": 11, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 16, "Castle 7": 17, "Castle 8": 19, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "sacrifice the top 2 and try to win the rest"}
{"rowid": 834, "Castle 1": 3, "Castle 2": 6, "Castle 3": 9, "Castle 4": 13, "Castle 5": 3, "Castle 6": 10, "Castle 7": 25, "Castle 8": 25, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Amazed at how many zeroes were played in the first game. Assumed that more 1's would be played and increased all low winning counts and reduced all high winning counts. Assumed that Castle 6 would be a priority seeing as how low a score won that castle last time. Ensured always 3 soldiers per castle as 1 and 2 are arbitrary low soldier counts that many people may enter. Also statistically 3 soldiers  would have won about 30% of the battles for each castle. Many people again may use castle 9 and 10 as their attempt to win, but for each soldier placed there, there return on investment is lower. Probably totally off base though ;)"}
{"rowid": 833, "Castle 1": 3, "Castle 2": 5, "Castle 3": 7, "Castle 4": 9, "Castle 5": 11, "Castle 6": 13, "Castle 7": 15, "Castle 8": 17, "Castle 9": 20, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Random guess"}
{"rowid": 832, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 3, "Castle 5": 22, "Castle 6": 22, "Castle 7": 21, "Castle 8": 20, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Intended to defeat those that relied on information from the first game."}
{"rowid": 831, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 9, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 0, "Castle 6": 5, "Castle 7": 2, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 41, "Castle 10": 41, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "beat previous winner; try best to win (#9 and #10), then win either (#6 and #3) or (#7 and #2)"}
{"rowid": 830, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 14, "Castle 4": 14, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 14, "Castle 7": 25, "Castle 8": 29, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Majority of strategies opted for 1-7, or 1,8-10 then some variant of uniform distribution.  High amounts on 7 and 8 defeat first two, 14 each on 3, 4 and 6 brings total to 28 and counters even distribution. Castle 1 is not worth the troop for any strategy. 9 and 10 are more expensive than they are worth vs most opponents. 2 troops on 2 and 5 to beat 1 troop distribution. Wouldn't beat a computer, but I want to beat Riddler Nation."}
{"rowid": 829, "Castle 1": 8, "Castle 2": 12, "Castle 3": 6, "Castle 4": 7, "Castle 5": 13, "Castle 6": 14, "Castle 7": 22, "Castle 8": 10, "Castle 9": 5, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Combination of intuition, randomness, and trying to match the winning deployment of last time."}
{"rowid": 828, "Castle 1": 4, "Castle 2": 6, "Castle 3": 9, "Castle 4": 0, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 3, "Castle 7": 27, "Castle 8": 31, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "old winning strategy +1 at the expense of castle 4"}
{"rowid": 827, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 10, "Castle 4": 5, "Castle 5": 20, "Castle 6": 20, "Castle 7": 20, "Castle 8": 25, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "to win"}
{"rowid": 826, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 12, "Castle 4": 14, "Castle 5": 31, "Castle 6": 31, "Castle 7": 1, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 4, "Castle 10": 4, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I'm essentially just trying to beat the winner of the original submission at the same time as I'm beating the person trying to beat the original winner."}
{"rowid": 825, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 13, "Castle 5": 18, "Castle 6": 3, "Castle 7": 25, "Castle 8": 30, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Mach 1 eyeball."}
{"rowid": 824, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 7, "Castle 5": 10, "Castle 6": 14, "Castle 7": 18, "Castle 8": 21, "Castle 9": 19, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I took the median of last battle's data and added one to each castle. The remaining troop was sent to castle 9 because I wanted to. I realize that because others are also analyzing this data I am probably going to get creamed but worth a shot."}
{"rowid": 823, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 8, "Castle 4": 10, "Castle 5": 13, "Castle 6": 2, "Castle 7": 28, "Castle 8": 33, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Can't waste too much time to lose anyway... decided to just beat round 1's winner."}
{"rowid": 822, "Castle 1": 3, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 5, "Castle 5": 5, "Castle 6": 5, "Castle 7": 35, "Castle 8": 35, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Use few troops on all but two mid level..."}
{"rowid": 821, "Castle 1": 3, "Castle 2": 6, "Castle 3": 1, "Castle 4": 12, "Castle 5": 15, "Castle 6": 18, "Castle 7": 21, "Castle 8": 24, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "It's necessary to win 28 castle points. I'm aiming for that with about an %18 cushion. 33 points. Only losing castles 6, 7, or 8,loses outright.  And losing 6 is survivable if I get lucky and pick up castle 3. I divided the troops up evenly with 3 per castle point for the castles I attacked. And had 1 left over so I took a flyer on castle 3."}
{"rowid": 820, "Castle 1": 3, "Castle 2": 7, "Castle 3": 10, "Castle 4": 14, "Castle 5": 17, "Castle 6": 21, "Castle 7": 25, "Castle 8": 1, "Castle 9": 1, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Fight where your enemy is weakest and take just enough to secure victory."}
{"rowid": 819, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 4, "Castle 3": 2, "Castle 4": 3, "Castle 5": 21, "Castle 6": 21, "Castle 7": 21, "Castle 8": 21, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "trying to beat the average bets, placing small ones on everything to pick up any additional ones I can"}
{"rowid": 818, "Castle 1": 3, "Castle 2": 5, "Castle 3": 8, "Castle 4": 10, "Castle 5": 13, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 26, "Castle 8": 30, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Last time's winning strategy. Maybe people don't change."}
{"rowid": 817, "Castle 1": 3, "Castle 2": 5, "Castle 3": 8, "Castle 4": 10, "Castle 5": 13, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 26, "Castle 8": 30, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I figured that people would try and come up with new strategy to counter what they imagine will be the counter to last year's winning strategy, or they would go even further and try to counter the counter of the counter (etc).  I decided to copy last year's winner and see if lightning would strike twice."}
{"rowid": 816, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 1, "Castle 3": 2, "Castle 4": 10, "Castle 5": 12, "Castle 6": 15, "Castle 7": 17, "Castle 8": 19, "Castle 9": 21, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Picking my battles on medium strength castles."}
{"rowid": 815, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 7, "Castle 5": 10, "Castle 6": 14, "Castle 7": 18, "Castle 8": 22, "Castle 9": 18, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "For this one, I looked at the median data from the last round, and chose numbers that would put me above the median for each castle. The sum of the median numbers was 89, enabling me to put median+1 in all castles (with an extra +1 for castle #8, the most contested castle last time)."}
{"rowid": 814, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 7, "Castle 5": 10, "Castle 6": 14, "Castle 7": 18, "Castle 8": 22, "Castle 9": 18, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "The Price Is Right a-hole method. The median deployment per castle +1 got me to 99, add one to castle 8 because it had the deepest deployment."}
{"rowid": 813, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 6, "Castle 4": 9, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 17, "Castle 7": 21, "Castle 8": 24, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "I wanted to make sure that I had at least 2 at each castle to ensure I capture situations where my opponent sends only 1 or 0. Then I focused on the upper middle castles, 5 6 7 & 8, to maximize points from those as well. If I can win 6 or more castles, even without winning 9 or 10 I feel that I can win overall."}
{"rowid": 812, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 2, "Castle 4": 3, "Castle 5": 11, "Castle 6": 21, "Castle 7": 22, "Castle 8": 32, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Just take the points"}
{"rowid": 811, "Castle 1": 1, "Castle 2": 4, "Castle 3": 13, "Castle 4": 14, "Castle 5": 1, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 20, "Castle 8": 23, "Castle 9": 22, "Castle 10": 1, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Going for close wins and major losses. Hoping to win 7-9 and 3&4. Will lose to opponents who used more than placeholders anywhere, but hopefully get lots of wins in the two groups that can help reach 28."}
{"rowid": 810, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 2, "Castle 3": 3, "Castle 4": 3, "Castle 5": 2, "Castle 6": 2, "Castle 7": 26, "Castle 8": 30, "Castle 9": 27, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Using prior competition data, largest area under the curve I could achieve without higher maths. (I used excel and simulated competitions)"}
{"rowid": 809, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 5, "Castle 3": 8, "Castle 4": 11, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 17, "Castle 7": 20, "Castle 8": 23, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "You need 28 points to win each engagement. I'm expecting most people will deploy their greatest number of soldiers to the highest-point castles. My intent is to concede those and instead deploy my soldiers to the lower-point castles, where each soldier should have greater incremental value. If one could consistently win castles 1 through 7, that would be just enough points to win the battle. I've decided to contest castles 1 through 8."}
{"rowid": 808, "Castle 1": 3, "Castle 2": 4, "Castle 3": 4, "Castle 4": 7, "Castle 5": 10, "Castle 6": 13, "Castle 7": 25, "Castle 8": 28, "Castle 9": 3, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "At least 3 troops in each. Heavier near higher value."}
{"rowid": 807, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 5, "Castle 3": 6, "Castle 4": 12, "Castle 5": 14, "Castle 6": 1, "Castle 7": 25, "Castle 8": 31, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 2, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Modified version of last winner, optimized against all previous entries"}
{"rowid": 806, "Castle 1": 0, "Castle 2": 0, "Castle 3": 8, "Castle 4": 10, "Castle 5": 13, "Castle 6": 18, "Castle 7": 23, "Castle 8": 28, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Trying to win only castles 8-3."}
{"rowid": 805, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 5, "Castle 3": 5, "Castle 4": 8, "Castle 5": 12, "Castle 6": 12, "Castle 7": 25, "Castle 8": 26, "Castle 9": 2, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Averaged the top 5 distributions from Round 1.  Strategically made these values integers by rounding deployment to castles 1-5 down and castles 6-10 up."}
{"rowid": 804, "Castle 1": 2, "Castle 2": 3, "Castle 3": 4, "Castle 4": 5, "Castle 5": 5, "Castle 6": 8, "Castle 7": 20, "Castle 8": 25, "Castle 9": 25, "Castle 10": 3, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "Pure seat of the pants strategy"}
{"rowid": 803, "Castle 1": 7, "Castle 2": 7, "Castle 3": 7, "Castle 4": 9, "Castle 5": 15, "Castle 6": 25, "Castle 7": 30, "Castle 8": 0, "Castle 9": 0, "Castle 10": 0, "Why did you choose your troop deployment?": "The way to win is to get 28 victory points. Generally, the data from the last round suggest that higher point castles are more competitive. This strategy involves investing all my troops into the lowest summing castles that get 28, which end up being everything but 10, 9, and 8. I placed them in increasing order with castle value."}