Re: Drop-in tournaments.

Oh, and if you're hosting this for people at Spotify, be careful about
letting Peter Strömberg enter... :-)

On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Patrick Cupka <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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