We run a Challenge each year in the Spring and Fall. There is a qualifying round where teams play against a set of computer managed companies. The top six then play against each other. The better students enter the Challenge, and the best make the finals, whereupon they encounter comparably skilled opponents.

The result is brutal competition. One year in the middle of the finals, the best cumulative profit stood at -$40 million. By the end of the simulation the winner had managed to eek out positive cumulative profit of $104M. This is less than the average class of beginners would produce.