SSCAIT 2017 final rush

The SSCAIT tournament deadline this year is 18 December. Like the 2015 edition last year, it will start in December and I expect final results in January. Curiously, they seem to have decided to skip a year in the numbering scheme, so this is the 2017 edition.

The final rush is on. The Usual Suspects are updating their bots. Marian Devecka, I’ve already noted, is back in the game. Tyr has been reuploaded for the first time since the middle of the year. Possibly a few bot authors are waiting until the last moment, hoping to gain an advantage with surprise updates.

The admins have been at work too. Some previously disabled bots are alive again: Awesomebot, DAIDOES, Ian Nicholas DaCosta’s bot, JompaBot, the 2013 bot by Oleg Ostroumov, PeregrineBot. The number of games used to track the current winning rate has been bumped from 20 to 50, so that the ranking changes more slowly but ends up more accurate.

I will be jumping in too. I got work underway a week ago and I’m rushing to finish a first primitive version. Stand by for the announcement.

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IMP on Friday, December 9. 2016:

nice, looking forward to seeing your bot. good luck!

krasi0 on Tuesday, December 13. 2016:

Yeah, I've re-enabled some older and not-as-impressive bots before the competition. Do you think I have missed out any significant entrants?

Also, the "last 50 games" was on my initiative. Actually, I had insisted on the number being the last 100, but breakk only agreed to increase it up to 50...

Also, congrats on your first uploaded version! It plays so well, that our first game almost ended up as an embarrassment for me! I should admit that I really got lucky after your initial muta rush. Keep up the good work! ^^

Jay Scott on Tuesday, December 13. 2016:

I don’t want to make recommendations, but Travis Shelton and Roman Danielis both have interesting play despite being weaker bots (by December 2016 standards!).

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