Looking forward to this.

Interesting stuff with bullet shielding lately... it's getting me a bit interested in coming back to robocode perhaps

Just thought I'd chime in to note, PL ranking isn't resistant to all kinds of specialists. One could argue that a bot which barely but consistently beats non-surfers, but is great against surfers, is a specialist of sorts.

It is not immune if thats what you mean. But no system is.

The biggest weakness with PL (Copeland) is if you submit a bunch of exactly equal specialist bots (clones), whoever they specialize against (scores above 50%) suffers. But no one is doing this.