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StarApple D/D+/C- man vs machine tournament
Wiki:
StarApple D/D+/C- man vs machine tournamentDefiler.ru page: http://defiler.ru/tourney/?t=459
Organizer(s): Martin Rooijackers (LetaBot)
Caster(s): BisuDagger (live commentary) (+ AmazingXKCD TBD)
(extra VOD cast by Nepeta TBD)
Tournament starts Saturday 11 June 12:00 CEST on channel BWAPI
Hello everyone,
StarApple expressed interest in sponsoring a man vs machine tournament. StarApple is an IT recruitment company located in the Netherlands. They host The AI games , a website where you can participate in coding competitions. They are also associated with Riddles.io , which offers a platform for hosting programming competitions.
This tournament is for D/D+/C- level players ( anyone with a max rank lower than C level ).
The tournament style is double elimination:
- Bo5 winner bracket
- Bo3 loser bracket
- Bo5 grand finals, 1 point winner bracket advantage
Signing up as a human player:
Before signing up, check the maximum rank you achieved on all your ICCUP accounts. If the maximum rank is C or higher on at least one of these accounts, your rank is to high for this tournament.
To sign up as a human player, you register on http://defiler.ru/tourney/?t=459 and post the following information in this TeamLiquid thread:
Name:
Race: Terran/Protoss/Zerg (no random)
ICCUP acount:
Max Rank:
Race-picking and random are not allowed.
Signing up a bot:
You sign up a bot by either mentioning to me that you want to play in this tournament (via PM or just posting here). In that case I will get the latest version of your bot from the SSCAI server and run the bot for you.
Or you can sign up a bot the same way as a human player does, but in your teamliquid post you also mention that you are registering a bot.
Tournament information:
The bracket system is the double elimination format.
The tournament will take place on Saturday 11 June 12:00 CEST, but there will be an opportunity to play the first round on Friday 10 June (see below).
The registration will close Thursday 9 June 12:30 CEST. On 13:00 CEST the brackets will be generated. If you want, you can contact your opponent in order to already play your round 1 game on Friday.
If you have to play the round 1 game, you have until 13:00 CEST to log in ICCUP. If you already played your round 1 match you have until 14:00 CEST.
Map pool:
All games are played on Fighting spirit. You can download the map from the defiler.ru map page or from the ICCUP map pack.
Prizes:
1st place: €20
2nd place: €10
This prize is sponsored by StarApple
Livestream/casting
Everyone is allowed to cast the replays on defiler.ru . Streaming your games is also allowed.
Official live stream will be on BisuDagger's twitch channel Sunday 12 June 13:00 CEST:
https://www.twitch.tv/bisudagger
Other replays might be casted by Nepeta, but this is TBD.
Other information:
- Everyone is allowed to use the observer version of a map, but I would advise bot operators to only play FFA or melee, because some UMS map triggers can crash a bot.
- Bot developers are allowed to let someone other than their-self or me operate their bot. Bot developers are eligible for prize money even if they are not operating their own bot.
- BWAPI bots should have the "complete map information" flag set to disabled (by default it is). They are allowed to put the "user input" flag to true for chat purposes, unless their opponent doesn't want the "user input" flag set to true (only applicable when the bot operator can edit the bot itself).
- Bot operator should not use Anti-hack as it conflicts with the BWAPI. When human players are playing against a bot, they can turn AH off and use
LatencyChanger for LAN latency.- Human players should have AH on when playing against other human players, unless this causes problems with the game not starting ( apparently some problems with the new maps maybe ). In that case, both players should live-stream their games and post the VODs in this thread (unless both players agree there is no need).
Thanks for organizing this!
