Hat League

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The premise of a hat league is that teams are picked at random by drawing names from a hat. In this league, teams consist of teams of two robots each written by a different author. In short, each teammate does not know with whom they will be paired. Once paired, each team will fight a survivalist battle with each other team within their bracket.

League Details

Specifics may evolve with experience, but initially they will be as follows:

• Each bracket will consist of up to 8 participants, which are then made into 4 teams.
• Each team will fight one 35 round battle against each other team, with survival determining the win.
• This amounts to 3 battles per team, for a total of 6 battles per bracket.
• Both participants in the winning team will go up to the next bracket (if any).
• Both participants in the losing team will go down to the next bracket (if any).
• If a bracket has an odd number of participants, one participant will be paired twice.
• If a bracket is not full, resolution will be at the discretion of the host.

Participation Details

• While not presently an enforced requirement, all participants should extend TeamRobot, which gives them the tools to distinguish friend from foe, as well as communicate with their teammates.
• To facilitate communication with your teammates, you are encouraged to use a common set of classes to prepare messages to be sent and interpret messages received. This set of classes is presently being tested and will be packaged as JAR file to be linked to in the same manner as robocode.jar during development.
• To include yourself , as yourself to the New Participants section.