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Zag · Tired of his old title

Pyramid Tournament of tic-tac-toe bots.

dethwing · DeTheeThaw

lexprod · NOT not a title

Amb · Amb the Hitched.

milkshake · Daedalian Member

/in, darn it.

Edit: It's interesting how these bots are symmetrical "about the x and y axis." It would be interesting and reduce randomness if all 4 rotational combinations were tested for each pairing instead of just 1. (That would get pretty tedius for a human "host," though.)

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

I hope we get exactly 9 players.

/in

The Great Crep'er · 2% Spambot

/in, are we going to be naming bots as well? Cannibal

dibs on Calculon and Tom Servo!
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Potato. Belgium. Eight. Random Lynch # Mafia awaits.

sAbLLimINal · Daedalian Member

Zag · Tired of his old title

Quailman · His Postmajesty

Zag · Tired of his old title

The Great Crep'er · 2% Spambot

I suggest non-players enter their votes as well to fudge the numbers. Cannibal

No, Zag, not me, I wouldn't do that.

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

One more player... please?

lexprod · NOT not a title

so for clarification:

Game: one tic-tac-toe game. Round: two simultaneous TTT games where one player plays as X in one and O in the other (with a different program for each, if wanted). Match: however many rounds it takes for one player to reach 3 points.

game < round < match
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I'll have a P please...

Zag · Tired of his old title

right

Zag · Tired of his old title

Testing my code. Since I know you guys are going to check that the games were played correctly, I don't have to!

----------------- Run #1
XX computer: 453719826
OO Computer: 798316452

XX computer goes first.

OO Computer wins!!

Zag · Tired of his old title

Well, we still have a week to go, but it seems like this is all we will get.

If anyone would like a practice round, send it to me now. I'll match up the people who send it in, and the only changes I will make to the random match-ups of the real game is that you won't meet your practice round opponent in the first round.

!!! Important !!! A proper entry looks like the following, In the Subject of the PM,

Bot name [bot for the game in which you go first] [bot for the game in which you go second]

Example:

MegaCrusher: 123456789 321654987

You can optionally have "Going first:" and "Going second:" if you like. Also, the first two letters of the bot name will be what is used inside the board, so you might want to consider that.

Invalid bots will get random values.

Remember, put it in the subject line of the PM.

The Great Crep'er · 2% Spambot

I'm debating whether or not I should practice a strategy in fear of letting others using it against me later on. Laughing

Zag · Tired of his old title

I only got three practice round entries, so I played them against each other all the way around. Since two of the names did not include the username at all, I modified the one name that did include it, in order to keep anonymity.

Tom Servo vs. De-Bot: one win each for 2 points each
Crawling Blockerbot vs. De-Bot: one win each for 2 points each
Tom Servo vs. Crawling Blockerbot: two wins for Crawling Blockerbot for 4 points!

Tom Servo: 251347986
De-Bot: 167294385

Tom Servo goes first.

Tom Servo wins!!

Undercover Monk · Professor Chaos

lexprod · NOT not a title

So...have we started?
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I'll have a P please...

Zag · Tired of his old title

Amb · Amb the Hitched.

Can you update the title when we need to send? I completely missed the practice round - not that I needed it.

Zag · Tired of his old title

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Who am I up against? Is UM playing?

Zag · Tired of his old title

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

Undercover Monk · Professor Chaos

Oh I mis-counted I can drop out to make it easier for you I just saw MattVs request for one more player I didi horribly last time anyway and am just waiting for BB and Top GL to get going
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

milkshake* · Guest

I'm good playing against a bot 1st round. The more the merrier! You might also consider letting people enter a 2nd bot if they want? Enthusiastic Grin

fool* · Guest

You could do a multidimensional-multi-personality-mathgrant-esch triple elimination tournament.

Chuck · Daedalian Member

I'll play!

Zag · Tired of his old title

Zag · Tired of his old title

OK. Signups are closed.

I have valid bots from

TGC
Chuck
Quailman
dethwing
lexprod
milkshake
sAB

I have a valid enough bot from (sigh)
Amb
Undercover Monk

MatthewV, your bot was invalid. (Check your PM's!)

I'll give him a day to fix it.

Zag · Tired of his old title

Here are the results of Match #1, Round #1.

Crawling Blockerbot (milkshake) vs. Biohazard (Quailman)

Zag · Tired of his old title

Results:

Crawling Blockerbot (milkshake) vs. Biohazard (Quailman) tied at 2-2
Public Enemy (sAbLLimINal) vs. De-Bot (dethwing) tied at 2-2
Shallow Blue (Chuck) vs. Computer (Computer) Shallow Blue is ahead 3-1
Marvin (Undercover Monk) vs. Computer (Computer) Computer ahead 4-0
Amb (Amb) vs. Computer (Computer) Amb ahead 4-0
Robosnail (The Great Crep'er) vs. Computer (Computer) tied 2-2
Wondertron (lexprod) vs. Computer (Computer) tied 2-2
#2 (MatthewV) vs. Computer (Computer) Computer ahead 4-0

Send in your bots for next round! Amb and UM, check the proper format! (In the subject of the note, with no extraneous characters in the bot portion.)

If anyone REALLY wants to make it easy on me, send it formatted like either of these (which is how I deliver the arguments to the constructor of Java class TicTacToe):

("milkshake", "Crawling Blockerbot", "564193728", "513724689");
("Quailman", "Biohazard", "573218946", "396127485");

Appreciates a good joke* · Guest

lol @ Shallow Blue

Undercover Monk · Professor Chaos

I thought it was a race to 3 points so I should already have lost.
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The Classic Blunders:
1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

Chuck · Daedalian Member

I think I should be ahead since I won one and tied one.

Zag · Tired of his old title

MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

umm.... I sent in "#2: 5379861264 517493268"

Oh, I guess I typoed and added an extra 6 at the end of the first one. OK.