Hi
About time I get back to you guys about the competition that was held on
the 20th of April.
Eight of my coworkers decided to take part in the competition. None of them
had any prior knowledge of Robocode. So I randomly paired them to form four
two-player teams.
The rules I stated was that the battle would take place on a 700x700 field
and that the robots had to be nanobots or microbots. Both ideas I've gotten
from this mail thread - thank you guys!
We had about three effective hours of coding. (We were told we would have
four, but a little time was lost in the beginning and the end...)
A little more than an hour in to the competition I asked for everyones
robots, with sources. This served two purposes. First: All teams got to
practice delivering a robot while still relatively calm. I knew it would be
hectic at the end of the competition as everyone wants to get that last
feature in! And Second: I got a chance to look at all the source code to
see that they were all making realistic progress ( = not too much
copy/pasting from internet).
In the end three of the teams ended up copy/pasting bits and pieces of the
sample robots that comes with robocode and one team wrote everything from
scratch. The "everything from scratch"-team came second in the overall
tournament. I think they did a great job! We all had a great time and
everyone thought three hours was not enough time. They thought about eight
hours would have been good.
I decided to run the final battle in front of all my coworkers with the two
finalist teams up on the stage. Everyone was cheering and clapping hands.
And laughing when one of the bots did something stupid! It was a real crowd
pleaser!
Thanks for your help and inspiration!
//Tobbe
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