Tournament

2007 END-OF-SEMESTER Bot Tournament

406B8 Engr Hall (EWS Lab), 9:00 AM sharp, Thu Apr 26, 2007

Tournament Bracket

Student-designed bots scurry around trying to put brightly colored (nutritious) food in their own nest and dark (noxious) food in their opponents nest. The food values change over time; sometimes orange is good, sometimes blue is good. Bots also have to eat some of the food to keep their energy levels up, and decide whether or not to invest energy in reproduction (so the kids can help out with the chores).

More details about the tournament scenario and bot capabilities can be found on the homework T2 page.

Tournament Rules

1. Players are paired according to the following bracket.
2. To balance the brackets, a subset of players will receive a BYE in the first rounds.
3. The player with the higher score by the end of the run (240 s) will move forward to the next round of the tournament.
4. Players that successfully move into the 'Elite Eight' round of the tournament will receive 1 EXTRA CREDIT POINT.
5. HAVE FUN!

• A zip file will be available here on the day of the tournament: tourn02.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 tourn02 subdirectory (just as if it were a homework zip file).
• In MATLAB, cd \\winhomes.ews.uiuc.edu\homes\matlab\tourn02, and type tourn02at the matlab prompt to load the simulation. Then wait for further instructions.
• NO EDITING OF CONTROLLER CODE IS ALLOWED DURING THE TOURNAMENT!