SSCAIT 2016 surprise entries

The deadline is past. Here are the surprise eleventh-hour SSCAIT entrants this year:

Aman Zargarpur - terran
auxanic - zerg
BeeBot - terran
Tommy Fang - terran
XelnagaII - protoss

Of these, XelnagaII is the only name I recognize. It finished in the middle of the pack in AIIDE 2016. As LetaBot says, BeeBot had a bug in its first upload which was fixed before the deadline, explaining its inconsistent results. It may be a dangerous mech bot. Auxanic has been around long enough for me to get an impression of its style: It is a single-minded macro zerg which doesn’t believe in making units for early defense. Auxanic can recover and win after having its main and tech destroyed, so at least it’s robust. Aman Zargarpur has played 1 game so far and Tommy Fang none yet.

I think we’re in for some variety, and that is good.

As LetaBot notes in the comments, they have returned to calling this the 2016 tournament, so that the sequence of numbers is unbroken. They called it 2017 until lately.

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LetaBot on Sunday, December 18. 2016:

I've run Aman and Tommy locally. Lets just say that bots that go BioMech in TvT don't tend to end high in the SSCAI tournament.

Auxanic's winrate doesn't look great either.

XelnagaII is a DT drop bot, at least in PvT. Interesting choice, since some Terran bots don't get Turrets or scans in time to deal with it (it seems to prioritize targeting missle turrets as well in the test games I let it play vs LetaBot)

For me, Beebot is the most interesting, since its tank push can defeat Iron Bot. Quite impressive.

LetaBot on Sunday, December 18. 2016:

Also, it is SSCAI 2016, since it ofc takes place this December (which is still 2016 :) )

Jay Scott on Sunday, December 18. 2016:

Oh, they renumbered it, returning to the original scheme! I’ve fixed the post to match.

Jay Scott on Monday, December 19. 2016:

Another new entrant is UPStarCraftAI 2016, which claims to be a zerg rushbot. Previous bots by the same name have played terran.

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