Tournament

2006 MARCH MADNESS Bot Tournament

406B1 Engr Hall (Linux Lab), 1:00 PM, Thu March 09, 2006

Tournament Bracket

Student-designed bot controllers compete head-to-head (mouth-to-mouth?) to survive three days and nights in the predator-infested bay of Braitu island. The simulation scenario is as described in hw07 and earlier homework assignments.

Tournament Rules

1. Players will be paired according to the following bracket.
2. Each player starts with 12 bots (red or green).
3. Each player may request one RESET if they are are unhappy with the initial positioning of their bots.
4. Each run lasts 240 seconds (3 days and nights).
5. The player whose bots have the most energy (summed over the population) by the end of the run will move forward to the next round of the tournament. (Usually this also corresponds to the player with the most bots.)
6. If all bots of a given color die, the other player is immediately declared the winner, even if their own bots are eventually wiped out.
7. To balance the brackets, a subset of players may compete against a default controller in the early rounds, rather than against another student. The default controller is similar to hw07_red.m, except that it 'knows' about berries. It shouldn't be too hard to beat.
8. The students that successfully move into the 'Elite Eight' round of the tournament will receive 1 EXTRA CREDIT POINT.
9. Note that there is an element of chance in the outcome ...a good controller can have bad luck...and vice versa.
10. Outwit, Outplay, Outlast ... and have fun!

Here's a zip file that contains everything (including all student controllers): tourn01.zip

Here are individual links (excluding student controllers):
Environment: tourn01.m
Controller: t1_default.m,
Updated functions: bb_sim_menu.m (new version this week)
Utility functions: bb.m, bb_sim.m (same as last week, no need to re-download)

Links to individual student controllers can be found here:
matlab/downloads.php