How does the "competition" work? Is it "live"? Is it online? Is there an accuracy component? I'm intrigued how the NYT ran a crossword competition with thousand

How does the "competition" work? Is it "live"? Is it online? Is there an accuracy component? I'm intrigued how the NYT ran a crossword competition with thousands of competitors. > Proverb and Dr. Fill. Proverb is a 1998 system that ranked 213th out of 252 competitors in the tournament. > Dr. Fill’s first competition was in ACPT 2012, and it ranked 141st out of 650 competitors. > We teamed up with Dr. Fill’s creator Matt Ginsberg and combined an early version of our QA system with Dr. Fill’s search procedure to win first place in the 2021 ACPT against over a thousand competitors.