Re: off contest matches

Hi,

I just finished the off-contest match capability. I tested it and it 
seems it works fairly good.
To proceed, log on (Account-> Log in ), then, go to the Account -> Test 
match menu item and follow the instructions.
It has currently the following restrictions:

(1) you must have a robot in the competition to engage an off-contest 
match (i.e., appear in the Hall of Fame).
(2) you can only play match between your robot and any robot in the 
competition (including yours, not tested though).

Please let me know if that is working for you and if it is useful.

Concerning the limitation on boring matches / boring robots, I believe 
the best way to work around this is to eliminate the last robot in the 
hall of fame every day until the hall of fame has a minimum number of 
entries (let's say 10 at the begining). A robot which has been 
eliminated this way can get back into the contest simply by submitting a 
new version of its controller: his main class will be simply renamed to 
MyEclecticJudoka.class-eliminated. It is simple to implement and easy to 
understand (no energy level, arbitraty distance covered by the robot 
during an arbitrary number of seconds, etc.). Let me know if you have 
any thoughts about it so that I could proceed with this idea soon.

-Olivier

Hip Robotamus wrote:

>  
> how about adding another parameter like robot energy which decreases 
> when not moving and increases with movement (inverse reality!!). 
> Therefore robots not moving die perhaps after 30 sec's whereas a 
> moving robot will create enough energy to last the full round time 
> limit?? Crazy idea??
>  
> Hip
>
>
> */Olivier Michel <[email protected]>/* wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Thanks Bothari for this proposal. I believe it is doable, and
>     maybe not
>     so difficult to implement. I will implement it as soon as possible
>     (probably tomorrow). In the meanwhile, I may also implement some
>     rules
>     to shorten the boring matches where no robot is moving.
>
>     -Olivier
>
>     Bothari wrote:
>
>     >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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