starcraft rts ai competition at cig 2013

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StarCraft RTS AI Competition at CIG 2013

• organized by Tobias Mahlmann, Antonio Mora, myself

• 10 maps

• 8 bots submitted

• software problems, ended up with programming an own tournament software (Tobias)

• good: very nice new, extendable software

• bad: software actually running since last Wednesday! and unfortunately had to disable read/write feature

• played 32 rounds random robin, makes 896 games

• each bot played 224 games

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Maps I(2)HeartbreakRidge 128x96, (2)Destination 128x96

(3)TauCross 128x128, (2)Benzene 128x128, (3)Aztec.scx 128x128

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Maps II(4)Python 128x128 (4)EmpireoftheSun 128x128

(4)CircuitBreaker 128x128 (4)Fortress 128x128 (4)Andromeda 128x128

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Entries

bot name race main contributor

institution

Adjutant Terran Nicholas Bowen University of Central Florida

AIUR Protoss Florian Richoux University of Nantes

BTHAI Terran Johan Hagelbäck Blekinge Institute of Technology

ICEStarcraftBot Terran Nguyen Quang Kien

Ritsumeikan University

Nova Terran Alberto Uriarte Drexel University

Skynet Protoss Andrew Smith freelancer

UAlbertaBot Protoss David Churchill University of Alberta

Xelnaga Protoss Ho-Chul Cho Sejong University

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Win Matrix Over Small/2-3-Player Maps

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Win Matrix Over 4-Player Maps

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Win Matrix Over All Games

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Overall Result

#1 Skynet(204) = 91.1 %

#2 UAlbertaBot(151) = 67.4 %

#3 AIUR(123) = 54.9 %

#4 Xelnaga(120) = 53.6 %

#5 Adjutant(95) = 42.4 %

#6 ICEStarcraftBot2013(83) = 37.1 %

#7 Nova(72) = 32.1 %

#8 BTHAI(28) = 12.5 %

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Conclusions

• more thorough data analysis needed

• shall have a look at the replays

• is the „bot order“ stabilizing?

• research groups on track now? how to attract newcomers?

• future: StarCraft I forever?