The official timeline for the 2nd Annual Reinforcement Learning Competition:

October 15th, 2007: Official competition announcement.

November 1st, 2007: Release of competition training software. Competitors can now begin training their agents.

December 1st, 2007: Release of competition test software. Competitors can now do official competition proving runs.

June 1st, 2008: Test runs begin.

July 1st, 2008: End of competition.

July 6th-9th 2008: Competition event at ICML.