Challenge 2K9

This is a temporary page for real challenge. Now it cover both TC and MC. Note that the extenal link is not yet finished.

For now, see Movement Challenge Y2K9.

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Welcome to the Challenge 2K9. It's an attempt at measuring the quality of your movement and/or targeting in 2009.

There are 4 subchallenges and main challenge:

• Small Bot Challenge 2K9: Test your nano/micro bot's movement and/or targeting.
• Wave Surfing Challenge 2K9, Aim the Basic Surfers Challenge 2K9: How perfect can you dodge/aim the basic aiming/movement?
• Curve Flattening Challenge 2K9, Aim the Flattener Challenge 2K9: How flat can your movement be? How you aim the Curve Flattener?
• Anti Pattern Matching Challenge 2K9, Pattern Matching Challenge 2K9: How you dodge the Pattern Matching? How perfect your pattern matching is?

Main Challenge

This is Main Challenge, mean that no relative to each sub challenge.

This challenge cover a variety of movement and targeting use in robocoder world. Now with 8 reference bots:

• GrubbmGrb 1.2.4
• MaxRisk 0.6
• WeeklongObsession
• Mako 1.5
• Komarious 1.78b
• Engineer 0.5.4
• Phoenix 1.02
• Shadow 3.83c

Download reference bot here. (download file include RoboResearch .rrc file and RoboLeague XML file)

Challenge Rules

Following rules applied to maing challenge and every subchallenges.

Movement Challenge

• All challengers will use the same gun, energy management and radar. These will come from the wiki/mc2k9/RaikoGun.java file found in the zip of /ReferenceBots. Note that the one from MC2K7 can be used, too, but if you create new bot, please use new one.
• Each challenger's movement can be all their own.
• Each challenger will meet reference bots specified in each subchallenges.
• Each challenger will meet each reference bot in 35 round seasons for result. Minimum of 20 seasons is require, but 50 or more seasons is recommend.
• The challenger's score against each reference bot is calculated like "challenger_score / (challenger_score + reference_bot_score)"

Targeting Challenge

• The Challenger must use the same movement and radar. These will come from the wiki/mc2k9/KomariousFlatMovement.java file found in the zip of /ReferenceBots.
• The Challenger must feed fire() or setFire() method with pwoer of 3.
• There are 10 /ReferenceBots, none of which fires, few of which does any ramming.
• Each challenger will meet each reference bot in 35 round seasons for result. Minimum of 20 seasons is require, but 50 or more seasons is recommend.
• The Challenger's score against each reference bot is calculated like "challenger_bullet_damage / rounds"