RoboRumble/Contributing to RoboRumble

ATTENTION: This article is not about entering a new robot into RoboRumble. Enter here.

If you entered a bot into the competition, you could consider to collaborate running the competition by using your computer to execute battles and upload results (similar to SETI@Home project). The process is fully automated, so there is no pain on doing it.

Run it as much as you can! The more you run it, the faster everybody's bots will be ranked. If you find problems, refer to the RoboRumble related pages, or post your issue and we will try to solve it.

Report problems here.

Setting up

1. Make a new, clean installation of the version of Robocode (download link). that matches what the LiteRumble Statistics indicates is allowed.
2. Edit roborumble/[roborumble/meleerumble/teamrumble/twinduel].txt and change the Put_Your_Name_Here to your preferred username.
3. Extract the zip-file latest bot archive (35.9 MB) into the "robots" directory.
4. (Optional) On newer CPUs on which you are planning to run RoboRumble exclusively, disable Dynamic Overclocking.

There you go!

Running battles

• Run 1v1 battles with roborumble.bat (Windows), roborumble.sh (Linux) or roborumble.command (MacOS)
• Run melee battles with meleerumble[.bat/.sh/.command].
• Run team battles with teamrumble[.bat/.sh/.command].
• Run twin duel battles with twinduel[.bat/.sh/.command].

Getting the RoboRumble bot JARs

The latest bot archive is available here (35.9 MB). It contains the JARs of all robots in the rumble, automatically updated on an hourly basis. Unzip them into your robots/ folder.

For earlier robot versions, see here. For earlier zip archive, see here. A mirror is available on GitHub.

Credits to Rednaxela for creating this.

Useful options in roborumble.txt

• USER ‒ Your name/handle, used for identification of your roborumble client.
• BATTLESPERBOT ‒ The minimum number of battles a bot needs before it stops getting priority.
• NUMBATTLES ‒ The number of battles fought on each run of roborumble
• ITERATE ‒ Whether to run battles indefinitely.
• UPLOAD ‒ Can be used to disable uploading. Disable uploading when testing a version of Robocode NOT allowed by the server. Not really necessary, as the current server will reject results from incorrect versions anyway.

See Also

RoboRumble Pages Enter the Competition · Contribute to RoboRumble · Current Rankings · LiteRumble · Kings · Discussion Participants 1-vs-1 · Melee · Team · Twin Duel · Giga Rumble · Melee Top 30 · Ranking Flags