Ants is over!

[amstan]

The contest is now finished. Congratulation to xathis for winning.

Here's the accompanied reddit post: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/com ... announced/

Until the next contest I pledge all of you to offer suggestions for the next contest and to help us develop it even.

Happy Finals everyone!

[AReallyGoodName]

Can you tell us more about how the finals are going to be setup?

Is it a case of reset all scores to 0 and play for a few days?

[MagnumPU]

My bot might not do too well, but this was super fun. I'd like to thank you organizers and KonaEarth and Fluxid and other TCP hosts. Good luck!

[salar2k]

Before final tournament isn't it better to reset all the ants skill to zero?
This would feel more fair!
And let the tournament run for two weeks.

[codetiger]

I would like to thanks all Organizing Team, and everyone who helped this contest a big success.

I put my 3 weeks into building my bot and learnt more than any 3 weeks of my life...

Special Thanks to Memetix, Icefox for introducing Collaborative diffusion and simple combat ideas.

[amstan]

Before final tournament isn't it better to reset all the ants skill to zero?
This would feel more fair!
And let the tournament run for two weeks.

Can you tell us more about how the finals are going to be setup?

Is it a case of reset all scores to 0 and play for a few days?

Correct. We'll reset the rankings, get new maps(from the same mapgens) and play for a few days(concentrating on the high-ranked bots near the end to get more accuracy).

[Odyssey]

As a high school student, this event provided a very challenging and fun experience for me. This allowed me to test my abilities in programming. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to upload my most recent one, fearing that it may cause time-outs due to lack of testing. Thanks for holding this competition and I hope there is another one soon!

[amstan]

New answer: Rankings will be visible for during the finals. So as it was before the finals, you can see your bot get ranked live!

Rankings have now been reset btw.

[dimkadimon]

New answer: Rankings will be visible for during the finals. So as it was before the finals, you can see your bot get ranked live!

Rankings have now been reset btw.

Looks like you also reset the ranking of all our past submissions.

When can we expect the games to start? Sorry for being so impatient...

[amstan]

When can we expect the games to start? Sorry for being so impatient...

Soon. Checklist is extensive.

Map list is up:

• cell - https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/commit/8c05c183ef072e502b22e5847081937b5762bb53
• maze - https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/commit/98849aa1c158e3ae0deea2734e4cb5db85cf6552
• random - https://github.com/aichallenge/aichallenge/commit/5174cb6c4ddb24c9a89a5c85cbb221604a4ecdb4