off contest matches

RoboMarci: Is there any progress with the off contest matches?
Olivier: No, not yet...

Here is a proposition of an easy(?) implementation of "off 
contest matches".

It would indeed be cool to update our robot and ask for a 
fight with a specific oponent (even a match again our own 
robot ?).

The ideay is to let people write a "request_match.txt" in 
their directory. This file will contain one line with the name 
of two robots (case has to be respected !).

For instance :
Bothari gollum

This way, the server can check each competitor directory and 
parse the two first words of teh first line of this file. At 
the end, he will get a list of the off contest fights to perform.
The server can then remove or rename all of these files as 
"request_match.txt.old". This way, competitor have to rename 
reload their request_match.txt if they want an other figth to 
be performed next time. This way, only requested fight will be 
performed.

After the sequence of fights, the server just repeat the check 
of the txt files. If none present, no figths. And he can wait 
a bit before rechecking.


I don't know how the contest sequence of match is programmed,
so it's probably not so easy to have things working this way.
But I like the way it allow to have only requested fight.


Any comments ? Aditionnal improve ideas ?
What's your opinion olivier ? Realistic ? Easy to implement or 
not ?

Bothari, who hopes it will help to get off contest soon...




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