Talk:RoboRumble/Enter The Competition

Was trying to run RoboRumble today and it seemed like it was down for a week or so. Is there any alternative to download participants' bots nowadays?

Why do we host bots outside of this wiki?

If we upload bots to wiki, we would always have bots ready for download as long as wiki is online. If it is not-online, literumble clients cannot access the list of bots anyway, so it is as bad as missing jars for download.

Additionally, we would not depend on big brother hostings like GitHub, Google, OneDrive, Dropbox, etc. These are notorious for changing their APIs leading to bots disappearance. Our own webservers go down too, though I would claim, situation is better than big hosting providers.

I see only one reason: it would increase wiki storage space requirement. But the latest bots archive at [1] is only 36 MB, which is nothing in comparison to the full wiki dump which is about 750 MB.

Good idea! I also thought about that years ago, but haven't mentioned it.

It's really hard for a new participant to join the rumble — you have to be Java 5 compliment (before the recent update that raised the requirement to Java 8), and you have to find a hosting service which offers permanent links to direct download.

I'm also considering some API for manipulating the participants list — it's easy to break it, and anyone can do that (and causing the literumble to be unstable for awhile)

E.g. we may want to add a form, where you can submit your bot name with a download link, and it automatically validates your package to make sure no mistake. It may also remove the older version automatically.

Another reason would be, 1000+ request from every one who runs the rumble for the first time would be DDOS. And this really increases the fee in bandwidth.

But the solution is easy as well — force those who run the rumble for the first time use latest-participants archive.

Attempting to upload a robot JAR to the wiki produces the following error message:

The file is a ZIP file that contains a Java .class file. Uploading Java files is not allowed because they can cause security restrictions to be bypassed.

Until this problem is fixed, I am reverting your advice on RoboRumble/Enter The Competition.

Wait - I don't get it. I've uploaded my bot into robocode repository, but I don't now how to get the download link to put on the participants page. The explaining paragraph says something about noting the corresponding id number. How would I get that id number? thanks

You should be able to see the ID in URL. Note that the Robocode Repository is not very stable, so maybe you should host your robot on your own hosting if available, or try some free service. Google Pages is proven to be working. Dropbox public link might work too, but hasn't been tested.

Thank you so much!!! It works!

I need some help to enter the competition. Where to download my robot and how to put it to the competition Can you explain to me?

Hi, welcome to the game.

Your question is a bit to general. Please have a careful look at RoboRumble/Enter The Competition and ask for clarifications. We will be happy to help.

Now I have my bot in dropbox but it doesn't look like the links of other robots my link is this "https://www.dropbox.com/home?preview=dsekercioglu.Tomahawk_5.01.jar". but other robots have links like dl.dropbox.

I forget to say. Now I know how to put in roborumble just having problems with the site

I've done it. The link is perfect. just one more question. How many hours it takes until a added robot gets into the competition. (very bad english sorry)

Hi, the link doesn't seem to work for me. Maybe try putting it in your Shared folder, then right-click, "get public link" or something similar and use that for the url.

Thank you very much it didn't worked I tried it in a different way if it doesn't work I will try it your way

And thanks for the robots you have made. They helped meet Improve very much. (Not from code I didn't understand anything)

Just one more question I battled DrussGT against Diamond in 5000 round battle in robocode.command but Diamond gets %92. Is it because of robocode.

I understood it I use a mac and I use java 7

I understood I use a mac and java 7

I am sorry to say, but I do not understand your question. Could you please reword it?

DrussGT is the best robot on roborumble but when it fights with Diamond in a 5000 round battles using normal robocode Diamond wins %92 to %8

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And only one more question I added my bot to the participants list and I can see Tomahawk in participants_latest. But I've been waiting for 3 days and I can't see it in the rumble. As I know it takes 1 - 24 hours to get into the roborumble. Is it supposed to be like that???

Were you running a roborumble client? If you do, your bot should show up within 15 minutes or so, but it might be a few hours before you have full pairings against all bots.

I was running but after the first 45 battles it was just starting to stay

Added Cannon vs Splooshlu in ? ms

I couldn't continue

How can I put my flag to the competition. You can find it in this link https://www.dropbox.com/s/srz702xfrsfph8q/TUR?dl=1 Thanks.

I've added TUR as an option, you can add yourself to the RoboRumble/Country Flags page =)

Thank you very much. Thanks for your help.

My bot WhiteFang uses auto-segmentation. Is it a good tactic and are there other robots doing that?

I mean that it tries to predict the best segments that could be used against it's enemy.

Most top bots simply use all segments at the same time, but with different weights. They are usually tuned offline.

There are some top bots using 2 sets of segments. 1 for a general purpose gun and 1 for an anti-surfer gun. And the best set of segments is estimated on-the-fly.

this is the link dsekercioglu.Tomahawk 5.03, https://www.dropbox.com/s/o9os6lit1q980bp/cfl.dropboxstatic.com.url?dl=1

Hi, If the roborumble server saves the results. Is there a way to change the current rankings with it because I've made a very big mistake(Deleted Bots).