Tournament

2007 MARCH MADNESS Bot Tournament

406B8 Engr Hall (EWS Lab), 9:00 AM sharp, Thu March 08, 2007

In preparation for spring break, student-designed bots spend three days and nights in the HOT SUN and COOL SAND, with somewhat ROCKY ACCOMMODATIONS.

More details about the tournament scenario and bot capabilities can be found on the homework T1 page.

Players are paired according to the following bracket.
To balance the brackets, a subset of players will compete against a default controller (T1_default) in the early rounds, rather than against another student.
The player whose bots have the most energy (summed over the population) by the end of the run (240 s) will move forward to the next round of the tournament.
If all bots of a given color die, then the other player is immediately declared the winner of that game, even if their own bots eventually die out.
Players that successfully move into the 'Elite Eight' round of the tournament will receive 1 EXTRA CREDIT POINT.
Like most competitions, there is an element of chance... a good controller can have bad luck (and vice versa)... so don't take the outcome too seriously.
Outwit, outlast, outcompute... and have fun!

A zip file will be available here on the day of the tournament: tourn01.zip
When you arrive in the EWS lab on Thursday, find a workstation, download the zip file into your matlab directory and upack it into a tourn01 subdirectory (just as if it were a homework zip file).
In MATLAB, cd \\winhomes.ews.uiuc.edu\homes\matlab\tourn01, and type tourn01at the matlab prompt to load the simulation. Then wait for further instructions.
NO EDITING OF CONTROLLER CODE IS ALLOWED DURING THE TOURNAMENT!