There is an Artificial Intelligence tournament in Brood War running right now, so check it out!
42 AI bots programmed in C++ and Java by students & programmers around the globe are gonna play 861 games 24/7 over the following 5+ days. Watch the stream or find out some interesting stuff below.
On January 14 2015 09:10 nepeta wrote: This is great, will there be vods? It is rather right before getting up time here
Well, it's running 24 hours a day, but yeah. We'll release all the replays after the competitive phase ends (approx. 5 days from now). If you want to get notified, follow us on Twitter or join our Facebook group: * Twitter: twitter.com/sscaitournament * Facebook: facebook.com/groups/bwapi
Also, after the competitive phase, the bots will play 27/7 uncompetitively during the whole year, so you guys have a nonstop stream to watch ;-)
That is awesome. I really like the different bots with their own styles. I saw a couple which could only do a 1 base zealot build, but there was one game where both bots took it slow and there were carriers, scouts... Another game I even saw a battle cruiser!
On January 14 2015 21:29 nepeta wrote: That is awesome. I really like the different bots with their own styles. I saw a couple which could only do a 1 base zealot build, but there was one game where both bots took it slow and there were carriers, scouts... Another game I even saw a battle cruiser!
Keep watching and keep an eye on some sick Dragoon or Vulture/Marine micro. Or even Carrier micro (I never thought I'd say those two words in one sentence).
Oh, that's perfect! Gonna read and reshare it all as soon as I get a chance Btw keep an eye on those good bots. The scores are at sscaitournament.com/index.php?action=scoresCompetitive and you can also use this tool to get notified when they play. Keep blogging!
I saw Rooijackers get defeated once, but didn't take any screenshots. His proxy building scv didn't build anything, he lost with 1k mins in the bank...
On January 15 2015 03:04 Mirabel_ wrote: Love watching Ximp's 2 base carrier get owned by a cute tank push. It's like the strategy was designed to beat Ximp's cabbage patch style.
It's quite possible that it was. Wouldn't be the first time that someone designed a counter to a specific bot.
On January 15 2015 03:46 nepeta wrote: Where? Current game is stuck at something... ADMIN!
It's probably not the game's or tournament's fault. The bots sometimes just get stuck in an infinite loop or take too much time on some computation. Then they're just shut down by the system and get a loss. All automated, don't worry
On January 15 2015 01:57 nepeta wrote: I saw Rooijackers get defeated once, but didn't take any screenshots. His proxy building scv didn't build anything, he lost with 1k mins in the bank...
That was probably in a match before the tournament began. I think/hope that I resolved that issue.
On January 15 2015 08:14 Mirabel_ wrote: drat, I missed Cere vs Rooijackers
I just watched a 5 min ZvZ where both AI 4 pooled and played really bad (sending 2 zerglings at a time to static giant ball of opponent zerglings). Most of the AI that I watched would get smashed by any C+ player. Is there any AI match that you recommend?
Klett vs Richoux might be nice, that'll be up soon. Watch out for matches between ICELab, Klett, Krystev, Churchill, Vajda, Cere and Smith. Those are all decent bots.
On January 15 2015 23:33 Burned Toast wrote: I just watched a 5 min ZvZ where both AI 4 pooled and played really bad (sending 2 zerglings at a time to static giant ball of opponent zerglings). Most of the AI that I watched would get smashed by any C+ player. Is there any AI match that you recommend?
Watch those bots what nepeta mentioned. If you wanna get notified when they're sheduled, try this tool.
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I'm curious, are the AIs which people submit nowadays predominantly learning and adapting AIs which figure out the best behaviour over 10000's of games? Or do people still keep the limitation of teaching BOs to their AI and certain behaviours to follow for what they scout? I would love to see emergent gameplay from bots which have "learnt" the bet ways to play over tens of thousands of games.
On January 16 2015 08:30 sscaitournament wrote: Guys, hitbox.tv offered us a chance to create some custom emoticons and subscriber badges. Have any ideas? Send them here! (80x80px PNG with transparent background preferred)
Well, something like the icons from here would be a good idea.
On January 16 2015 17:18 art_of_turtle wrote: I like all the bot descriptions. Especially the top 5 zergs. gogo Marek Suppa!!
I currently like Krasimir Krystev the most...but only because the creator was in the chat while I watched ^_^
On January 17 2015 00:51 ImbaTosS wrote: I'm curious, are the AIs which people submit nowadays predominantly learning and adapting AIs which figure out the best behaviour over 10000's of games? Or do people still keep the limitation of teaching BOs to their AI and certain behaviours to follow for what they scout? I would love to see emergent gameplay from bots which have "learnt" the bet ways to play over tens of thousands of games.
The bot AIUR, made by Florian Richoux, has the following feature listed on its web-page.
Aiur: Implement an off-line learning feature: You can now train AIUR against a given opponent and use that learning for further games, like during tournaments.
On January 17 2015 00:51 ImbaTosS wrote: I'm curious, are the AIs which people submit nowadays predominantly learning and adapting AIs which figure out the best behaviour over 10000's of games? Or do people still keep the limitation of teaching BOs to their AI and certain behaviours to follow for what they scout? I would love to see emergent gameplay from bots which have "learnt" the bet ways to play over tens of thousands of games.
Several bots do some learning between the matches. Each learns something different - for example one of them has a neural network just to perfect his cannon rush
Edit: Okay, that was silly. 2Bunker rush succeeds, wall survives, LetaBot endlessly suicides individual marines and wraiths into two cannons until he's mined out, game goes to 90:00 and the judge calls it in favor of Rooijackers.
On January 17 2015 12:51 Mirabel_ wrote: XIMP VS LETABOT LET'S GO
Edit: Okay, that was silly. 2Bunker rush succeeds, wall survives, LetaBot endlessly suicides individual marines and wraiths into two cannons until he's mined out, game goes to 90:00 and the judge calls it in favor of Rooijackers.
THESE ARE THE TOP TWO BOTS.
Hm, according to the website, Rooijackers lost and he now has 4 losses instead of 3.
On January 17 2015 12:51 Mirabel_ wrote: XIMP VS LETABOT LET'S GO
Edit: Okay, that was silly. 2Bunker rush succeeds, wall survives, LetaBot endlessly suicides individual marines and wraiths into two cannons until he's mined out, game goes to 90:00 and the judge calls it in favor of Rooijackers.
THESE ARE THE TOP TWO BOTS.
Hm, according to the website, Rooijackers lost and he now has 4 losses instead of 3.
On January 17 2015 12:51 Mirabel_ wrote: XIMP VS LETABOT LET'S GO
Edit: Okay, that was silly. 2Bunker rush succeeds, wall survives, LetaBot endlessly suicides individual marines and wraiths into two cannons until he's mined out, game goes to 90:00 and the judge calls it in favor of Rooijackers.
THESE ARE THE TOP TWO BOTS.
Hm, according to the website, Rooijackers lost and he now has 4 losses instead of 3.
That error has been corrected.
Oh, ok.
ICELab vs Krasimir Krystev actually happened? The stream wouldn't load, so I thought it was down.
On January 17 2015 12:51 Mirabel_ wrote: XIMP VS LETABOT LET'S GO
Edit: Okay, that was silly. 2Bunker rush succeeds, wall survives, LetaBot endlessly suicides individual marines and wraiths into two cannons until he's mined out, game goes to 90:00 and the judge calls it in favor of Rooijackers.
THESE ARE THE TOP TWO BOTS.
Hm, according to the website, Rooijackers lost and he now has 4 losses instead of 3.
That error has been corrected.
Oh, ok.
ICELab vs Krasimir Krystev actually happened? The stream wouldn't load, so I thought it was down.
It did. Hitbox is currently unavailable for 360p and 480p. Go to source (510p) quality and it will work.
On January 17 2015 12:51 Mirabel_ wrote: XIMP VS LETABOT LET'S GO
Edit: Okay, that was silly. 2Bunker rush succeeds, wall survives, LetaBot endlessly suicides individual marines and wraiths into two cannons until he's mined out, game goes to 90:00 and the judge calls it in favor of Rooijackers.
THESE ARE THE TOP TWO BOTS.
Hm, according to the website, Rooijackers lost and he now has 4 losses instead of 3.
That error has been corrected.
Oh, ok.
ICELab vs Krasimir Krystev actually happened? The stream wouldn't load, so I thought it was down.
It did. Hitbox is currently unavailable for 360p and 480p. Go to source (510p) quality and it will work.
Thanks, but that's something my internet connection can't handle :/
On January 17 2015 12:51 Mirabel_ wrote: XIMP VS LETABOT LET'S GO
Edit: Okay, that was silly. 2Bunker rush succeeds, wall survives, LetaBot endlessly suicides individual marines and wraiths into two cannons until he's mined out, game goes to 90:00 and the judge calls it in favor of Rooijackers.
THESE ARE THE TOP TWO BOTS.
Hm, according to the website, Rooijackers lost and he now has 4 losses instead of 3.
That error has been corrected.
Oh, ok.
ICELab vs Krasimir Krystev actually happened? The stream wouldn't load, so I thought it was down.
It did. Hitbox is currently unavailable for 360p and 480p. Go to source (510p) quality and it will work.
Thanks, but that's something my internet connection can't handle :/
Once the replays are released, I will sort through them and highlight several replays. In the mean time I will set up some Bot vs itself matches (for example: ICELab vs ICElab) and put the link to the replays here
GG LetaBot, glorious victory for the Netherlands && Looking forward to the bot mirror matches.
LetaBot vs XIMP seems to have been a bit of a let-down... bad PR for the AI competition.
Krasi (from the Krasibot, tournament organiser) is planning a top 8 tournament. He's looking for casters for that. Perhaps I will do it if I can get winxp in a vm on my 6 year old linux pc, but that won't be easy :p
I managed to run some bots versus versions of themself. I haven't yet set up the BWAPI correctly on the other PC, so WOPR,Skynet and Black White have not been run yet. If someone want to see those as well, mention it in this topic.
Maybe this info now becomes a bit redundant, but make sure you don't miss out the commented youtube videos for the Top 8 bracket, which will be publushed on this channel http://www.youtube.com/user/certicky/ To whett your appetite, this is the final game from last year: