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IEEE CIG 2015 StarCraft AI Competition:
The website for the CIG 2015 StarCraft AI Competition has launched today. Submitting a bot is now possible. The submission deadline is July 15, 2015.
Rules:
- Game type is 1 vs.1 full game StarCraft: BroodWar 1.16.1 with fog-of-war enabled
- Bots will be run in a native Windows 7 environment.
- Using BWAPI which is 3.7.4 as well as the newest version released before June, 2014, which will be 4.X
- Time limit is 86400 frames (60min). After that time, In-game score will be used to determine the winner
- Full Round-robin tournament, with as many rounds as possible. If participants are increased, we will execute a qualifying round.
Map pool
 Fighting Spirit
Andromeda
Tau Cross
Pathfinder
Ride of Valkyries
My predictions:
LetaBot went into the SSCAIT2014 with some well crafted rush and timing attacks. Ever since this event, new bots like Tscmoo use strategies that prevent a defeat from early game attacks. Other bots will have to develop these strategies as well, or their games will be a repeat of what happened in the SSCAI 2014.
With early strategies out of the picture, we are going to see more longer games between the top bots. In these macro games, the improved mineral gathering from LetaBot will prove crucial. However, better unit production can still lose against better micro-management.
Thus the question for this competition becomes: " Does a BWAPI bot benefit more from spending CPU on macro or micro? "
Feel free to post your own predictions on what kind of games we will see. Or speculate on which bot will win.
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Magic Woods9326 Posts
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Hype !
I have never played BW, but damn the idea of an AI competition is cool ! Will try to tune in if this gets streamed !
Also, if any TL'er enters the competition please say so, so we can cheer for you 
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Oh damn, I didn't know these competitions were IEEE. That's pretty cool.
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France9034 Posts
Yay for BW AI competition! \o/
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This makes me doubt if I should go learn compiler theory or AI this summer x_X
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All go and subscribe!
I mean sign up!
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On June 19 2015 01:03 masterrn wrote:
gogo Winter!
Dank meme.
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This is awesome, I love the BW AI bots. Thanks for sharing!
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This is intressting to see.
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I hope I have time to work on mine this year
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On June 19 2015 08:13 mooose wrote:
I hope I have time to work on mine this year
Hope so too, your guide seemed to be really pro. Go give 'm hell ^^
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Looking forward to this competition the bots always provide a really alternate reality from your usual human vs human gameplay
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On June 19 2015 00:15 Draconicfire wrote:
Oh damn, I didn't know these competitions were IEEE. That's pretty cool.
yes wow it's IEEE
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Anymore improvements for the zergs? Last time they only ever had the greatest 4/5pools
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If you don't actually try to compute the opening e.g. 10 gate 12 assim 14 core 15 pylon...
That would be really tough to compute and just use predefined opennings with possible switches(= chess book opennings) then your bot will spend very little on CPU on macro.
In fact you can optimize it so it's almost nothing.
So I say that 90% cpu usage is micro and tactical analysis.
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For all bot developers who want to test their bot in a tournament environement before they submit their bot I organized a small tournament. You can find it at BWAPI mini tour #1 or BWAPI mini Tour 1.
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EPT
