SSCAIT losing after winning

Watching the ongoing tournament, I see that some older bots are being given losses after they eliminate the opponent. The symptom is that A eliminates B, then right away the notification comes up “waiting for player A”, its time runs out, and A is counted as the loser. I’ve seen it several times.

Jakub Trancik is an obvious example. For example, it happened in today’s game Jakub Trancik - Yuanheng Zhu. Jakub Trancik has recorded no replays in the whole tournament, and this can only be why. Jakub Trancik’s sole recorded win so far is versus MegaBot2017, which crashes often. And yet Micky Holdorf’s tournament page gives Jakub Trancik only 3 timeouts and 14 crashes in 64 games.

Jakub Trancik also scored at the bottom last year, with similar numbers, but scored about 23% in the 2020-2021 tournament. Presumably a change made in 2021 caused the bot’s “game over” code to no longer work. Does it disconnect before Starcraft recognizes the win? Or what?

It would be nice to fix the issue, since it messes up the definition of winning. But as far as I’ve seen the affected bots are very old. If that’s true, then disabling them would probably not hurt much.

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MicroDK on Monday, January 9. 2023:

My tournament page relies on the SSCAIT API and the result list on SSCAIT likely uses the same API. On the result page it says that Jakub Trancik crashed in that particular game.

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