For the 6th consecutive year SSCAIT will be hosting the largest tournament for Broodwar AIs in the world! With 45 participants registered, two more than last year, the inital round robin group phase is already under way, to determine which student will be the 2016 champion. After that, the best 16 AIs will play a single elimination bracket, Ro16-Ro4 will be bo3, the finals a Bo5.
There are 19 new bots participating this year -which sadly means not everyone who was participating last year signed up again. Most coders have had no time to update their bots. Hopefully they'll be with us again next year.
Last year, LetaBot took the student division, while Killerbot dominated from the Ro16 until the end, dropping only one game in the process. This year bot Marian Devecka (Killerbot) and Martin Rooijackers (LetaBot) have been working diligently on updating their bots to the newest standards. Then there is Iron Bot, by Igor Dimitrijevic, a French epiphany with relentless harassment. As outsiders for the title must be named ZZZKBot, by Chris Coxe, krasi0bot by Krasimir Krastev -or will the new protoss prodigy Bereaver walk the royal road? Using shuttle/reaver, high templars and a very aggressive combat simulator, he very well might.
There will be a broadcast of the best games from the round of robin stage, from then on the Ro16 up until the finals will be broadcast completely, so be prepared for some gosu bot on bot action!
PREVIEW We already made a video of the best of the Round Robin:
Also, a short glance at the major contenders to enter the round of 16:
Congratulations to LetaBot, won the round robin part in dominating fashion! WuliBot got 2nd, Dave Churchill's UAlbertaBot 3rd. On to the Ro16 now, bracket following shortly!
Waiting for Playoffs stage! Nice to see LetaBot doing greatly again. I've also got a question about playing vs bots myself. I've installed BWAPI 4,1,2 as well as downloaded BWAPI dlls from SSCAI website. However, I've succeded only in running Krasi0 and Iron bots while, for example, LetaBot and KillerBot didn't start and I've got "failed to load the AI module at blablabla/**.dll" error message from BWAPI. Any ideas on what am I doing wrong?
On January 01 2017 01:16 nepeta wrote: Congratulations to LetaBot, won the round robin part in dominating fashion! WuliBot got 2nd, Dave Churchill's UAlbertaBot 3rd. On to the Ro16 now, bracket following shortly!
Actually, this was a mixup on our side. Dave Churchill didn't get 3rd place this year, since he's not a student. Instead, Zia bot ended up 3rd, making it the first Korean bot on a winning position.
On January 03 2017 04:01 Alex007 wrote: Waiting for Playoffs stage! Nice to see LetaBot doing greatly again. I've also got a question about playing vs bots myself. I've installed BWAPI 4,1,2 as well as downloaded BWAPI dlls from SSCAI website. However, I've succeded only in running Krasi0 and Iron bots while, for example, LetaBot and KillerBot didn't start and I've got "failed to load the AI module at blablabla/**.dll" error message from BWAPI. Any ideas on what am I doing wrong?
Only some bots use BWAPI 4.1.2 to run - others use older versions. You should always download the BWAPI.dll that comes with the bot and temporarily replace your own BWAPI.dll with it.
On January 19 2017 04:12 nepeta wrote: LIve now on hitbox.tv/sscaitournament and https://www.twitch.tv/certicky, for some reason TL calendar doesn't show
Twitch stream is not loading, at least for me. Hitbox has no video but audio at least.
Heh, quite interesting. As I said in the blog, only an admin mixup/confusion and technical problems the first time they played are valid reasons that I can see for now. It would be quite lame to replay something because the "wrong" bot won or because it wasn't fun enough.
Heh, quite interesting. As I said in the blog, only an admin mixup/confusion and technical problems the first time they played are valid reasons that I can see for now. It would be quite lame to replay something because the "wrong" bot won or because it wasn't fun enough.
From the BWAPI facebook page
Hi guys. Wow, did Steamhammer really win that 1st game? (176045) I did indeed schedule those 8 games in a row, but then I had to go afk before they started and returned only in the middle of match 2. And since I wanted to see all Ro16 games before sending them to nepeta (to be sure all went without technical problems), I just rescheduled the 1st match, assuming it won't affect the result (I didn't even look at it). I assure you, there is no match fixing - just a lot of circumstantial randomness I don't even have any reason to favor one bot over the other.
Also, before some conspiracy theorist notices, two other Ro16 matches were also replaced by later games without me looking at the results The reasons for this are equally stupid and random - I managed to send 6 instead of 8 reps to nepeta and when I realized it, it was easier for me to reschedule than to look for the old ones.
So in conclusion, if I schedule a few games in a row, it doesn't mean they will 100% all be used for the bracket. There are unexpected external factors and my own fuckups which influence this, but I assure you - there is no intention to fix the results.
So basically, he used the replays from the games he watched live. As mentioned, it is not just my bot who got a different replay choice because of that.
On January 20 2017 00:21 LetaBot wrote: From the BWAPI facebook page
Thanks, considering I'm not on Facebook and thus wouldn't see it.
And in the end, it's a valid reason from my point of view, as already stated. Will be interesting to see whether people will actually complain after that or not.
Hi guys. Wow, did Steamhammer really win that 1st game? (176045) I did indeed schedule those 8 games in a row, but then I had to go afk before they started and returned only in the middle of match 2. And since I wanted to see all Ro16 games before sending them to nepeta (to be sure all went without technical problems), I just rescheduled the 1st match, assuming it won't affect the result (I didn't even look at it). I assure you, there is no match fixing - just a lot of circumstantial randomness I don't even have any reason to favor one bot over the other.
Also, before some conspiracy theorist notices, two other Ro16 matches were also replaced by later games without me looking at the results The reasons for this are equally stupid and random - I managed to send 6 instead of 8 reps to nepeta and when I realized it, it was easier for me to reschedule than to look for the old ones.
So in conclusion, if I schedule a few games in a row, it doesn't mean they will 100% all be used for the bracket. There are unexpected external factors and my own fuckups which influence this, but I assure you - there is no intention to fix the results.
I think there is no excuse. You can not organize a tournament like this. Why were the games not casted live ?
Hi guys. Wow, did Steamhammer really win that 1st game? (176045) I did indeed schedule those 8 games in a row, but then I had to go afk before they started and returned only in the middle of match 2. And since I wanted to see all Ro16 games before sending them to nepeta (to be sure all went without technical problems), I just rescheduled the 1st match, assuming it won't affect the result (I didn't even look at it). I assure you, there is no match fixing - just a lot of circumstantial randomness I don't even have any reason to favor one bot over the other.
Also, before some conspiracy theorist notices, two other Ro16 matches were also replaced by later games without me looking at the results The reasons for this are equally stupid and random - I managed to send 6 instead of 8 reps to nepeta and when I realized it, it was easier for me to reschedule than to look for the old ones.
So in conclusion, if I schedule a few games in a row, it doesn't mean they will 100% all be used for the bracket. There are unexpected external factors and my own fuckups which influence this, but I assure you - there is no intention to fix the results.
I think there is no excuse. You can not organize a tournament like this. Why were the games not casted live ?
Because the caster isn't always available (he is doing it for free, unlike a caster for ASL for example). That is why the casting is prerecorded.