what about the Torch Up tournament?

What ever happened with the Torch Up: FOSDEM’20 Brood War AI Tournament? All the pages saying to be ready by 25 January are still up, and I found a list of 11 participants, but I can’t find any sign of results, including at the FOSDEM 2020 conference which happened at the start of February.

It seemed like an interesting competition with some different decisions than other tournaments. The map pool, in a post that is mysteriously dated 9 March, includes Gold Rush, which has difficult features (Steamhammer struggles on that map, though it can still beat the built-in AI). Some of the optional challenge maps are extremely demanding—are these for a future iteration?

Did the tournament happen? Did it complete? Were the results perhaps announced to raised beers and general carousing so that nobody remembers them any more?

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Jean Chassoul on Friday, March 13. 2020:

Hi Jay, glad to see that you are curious about the new maps, they are for next year hope you can join us! I write some words about what is happening here:

https://spacebeam.org/2020/03/13/what-about-the-torch-up-tournament/

I've also announce the re-schedule of the tournament games for next week from Mar-16 to Mar-20 in the #torch-up channel in Discord, its always nice to find out a new entry in your blog, hope you can join us in the chats as well.

I'm planning about writing a post-mortem going in detail about things after the results have been released ^^

Jay Scott on Friday, March 13. 2020:

Thanks for the update, and good luck!

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