Re: Drop-in tournaments.

I think much of what you want could provided by the RoboRumble -
currently we (RoboWiki) use one written by Skilgannon called
LiteRumble. The rumble client (included with Robocode) pulls the
participant list from a URL, so you'd just need to provide a mechanism
for people to update that page with their bot details / download URL.
We do this with a wiki page on robowiki.net. Skilgannon has also
offered to let anyone report results for custom categories to his
server, so you could just figure out a client configuration and do
that.

The big piece that you mention that nobody has done AFAIK is a build
system that would take the code from a repo, build it into a bot, and
enter it into the competition. Now, a veteran would already have a
packaged JAR anyway, because you need that for batch testing. But yes,
ideally you want to remove as many obstacles as possible for
beginner/novice players. It's hard getting people into programming
games.

Our LiteRumble instance is hosted here: http://literumble.appspot.com/
Source repo here: https://bitbucket.org/jkflying/literumble/src

It's designed to run on Google App Engine. I'm not sure how hard it
would be to adapt it otherwise.

Our previous RoboRumble server used Darkcanuck's code:
https://github.com/darkcanuck/rumbleserver

Good luck!

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:16 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to host a tournament for a few friends and collegues.
> Is it possible to run a tournament/ladder where people can "dynamically"
> upload robots and have them continually be matched up against each other and
> ranked?
> Ideally I'd like to just let them commit code to their own git-repos (or to
> one big central one) and have the tournament-engine pick them up and start
> maching them up.
>
> Is this available _today_ or would I need to implement my own engine?
>
> // Javier
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