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[Xrillo]

[Manwe56]

[krokokrusa]

Profile:
Final Rank: 350
Language: Java
Source:

Unofficial rank: ~700
Language: C++
Source:

[ludakris]

Profile:
Final Rank: 122
Language: Java
Final Source:
Rewrite Source:
Post Mortem:

I did a simple iterative approach to making a bot. I added new abilities, did regression against my bots, ran on Dhartmei, etc. I did TDD calculation related logic and some complicated list/collection methods. I discuss my bot in more depth in my post mortem.

My bot played out the current state of the board to determine the known future, and only did attacks using a single source planet per turn (no coordinated multi-planet attack).

The bot that I ended up submitting was the final version of what was really meant to be a good test bot which was left largely unchanged for the last month of the contest. I started down a path of rewriting my bot so that I could have better modelling around creating future state of an entire Universe and to add in a Reservation system for coordinated multi-planet attacks. The rewrite never reached a point where it was better than the test bot (though very close, likely would have been in the top 200). This was especially unfortunate because when the map generator changed, my test bot dropped from the 50s and 60s to about 150, but I continued to invest my time in the rewrite.

Overall, this was a great competition. I look forward to the next one.

[GreenTea]

Post about my bot (russian)
Source code:

[InvaderZim]

Profile:
Final Rank: 395
Language: Java
Final Source:

The post mortem will be coming in a bit. Haven't had time to get to it yet.

[eashoka]

Estimated Rating : 3270 - 3280
Estimated Rank : 60 - 70
Language : Java
Source, tournament Results and rating calculation :

Why this talk about estimated ranks and ratings ? Find the full story here please :

In short, I ran a local contest since I joined the competition way too late. (details on results and rating calculation of this can be found in the excel final-results.xls downloadable from the url)

Special thanks to GreenTea, Smloh, Manwe56, Deccan, Exaide, Ludakris, Eburnette, InvaderZim and zvold for submitting your java code and made it all possible for me. You guys really made my day! (or two months really). I have a lot of admiration for you all. Will put few analysis on your bots (what I saw while running them for two months ) on the mentioned blog above.

If any of you have still time and passion left for the Planet Wars, you can run the provided tournament code (I just modified the PlayGame.jar slightly in Engine.java) and let me know your thoughts.

Best of luck for all in the upcoming competition!! Looking forward to meet you guys (and your bots)