Competition in the 21st Computer Olympiad

Competition in the 21st Computer Olympiad

 Result

1st_prize; Jiritsu-kun, 2nd_prize; GCCS, 3rd_prize; LastOneTAI

Log

CO2018_Log.zip(181)

  Outline

• This competition is held as a part of the 21st Computer Olympiad. Curling AIs play games on the system called Digital Curling to decide which one is strong.

What is Computer Olympiad?

Computer Olympiad is the comprehensive competition of games held by International Computer Games Association.
Please visit here for detail information.

  Date

• July 9-11, 2018
  
  
• Schedule
  • 1st day(July 9)
  • 2nd day(July 10)

  Venue

• Information Center, National Taipei University (San-Shia Campus)
  

  Regulations

• Length of games will be scheduled 8 ends.
• If the number of participating teams is less than 6 teams, match-up will be done in round robin manner. In the case of more than 7 teams, the ranking will be decided by Swiss tournament.(It may change depending on the progress.)

Simulator and upper limit of shot strength

• The upper limit of the y component of the shot vector transmitted with the BESTSHOT command is 48.79 , and shots larger than this value are invalid.
  • The size of the vector before the random number is added will be checked. Actual shot values may exceed this limit, since random numbers are added,
  • The size of the x component of the shot vector is not checked.
• Prohibited from consuming computational resources when you are not your turn.

  Thinking time

• 219 seconds

  Extra end

• The match will go to "extra end", if the score of each team is same at the finish of the 8th end.
• Extra end will be started as a new game by the following setting.
  • End; 1 end
  • Thinking time; 28 seconds for each
  • Hammer team; the team that lost the last end

  Limit on thread

• No limit within the specifications of computer used at the competition

  The specifications of computer used at this competition

• OS：Windows 10 Home 64 bits
  
• Processor：Intel(R) Core（TM) i7-5500U CPU @ 2.40 GHz
  
• Memory：16 GB RAM
  

  Simulator

• The simulator used in this event is Ver.2.4_GAT.

  Random number

• Normal random numbers are used, and the x axis is μ = 0, σ = 0.0725, y axis is μ = 0, σ = 0.2900.(It is set at 0.145 on the client.)
  

  Requirements of participant

• Program needs to work on the official client of digital curling.
• Participant must send the source code of participating program after completion to release it.
• At least one of the developers is expected to show up to the competition site.
• Please mention Computer Olympiad also sets its rules.

  Participation & Question about this competition

• You need to register both here (mentioned below) and on Computer Olympiad page
• Please fill in the following necessary items and apply via e-mail with your program to "taito@mbc.nifty.com". We will confirm whether it works on our environment, and will contact you for confirmation. Please wait for a few days.
  
• Application deadline: June 25, 2018
  
• If you have any question about this competition, please ask us via email to "taito@mbc.nifty.com".

Organized by: Takeshi Ito Laboratory, the University of Electro-Communications