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Martin Rooijackers aka LetaBot is organizing another man-vs-machine tournament, this time a team tournament. He will go so far as to accept your bot in compiled form and put it on a team and operate it for you, so that your only commitment is to send in your bot.

He wrote to me: “The thing that will make this interesting is that unlike other man vs machine tournaments, this one will have the all-kill format. So since some bots are better at certain match-ups like TvZ, these specialized bots can thus still win the tournament.” I agree it’s an entertaining format and offers chances you don’t get otherwise.

It’s cool that he keeps running new competitions in different formats. It’s certainly not going to get stale. Kudos for the hard work!

If you have a bot, then I have a suggestion for what point in your development path is a good time to participate in a man-machine competition: Before you are ready. You can’t be ready until you’ve done it once before!