Winter AI War: The tournament you don't play in

Hello. It's time for a new event style! Your task, if you choose to accept it, will be to modify circuit AI (or create your own ai) to fight other players' AIs in 3v3 matchups . You may enter in either ZK or FW category. The winning players in both categories will be hailed as the AI trainer champion! Use your game knowledge and text editing skills to create the ultimate AI to kill all the others!


What you'll need:
- Devmode enabled (create devmode as a text file (txt) in your zero-k install folder, and look in the lobby settings for a new 'developer' tab, from there turn off simplified AI list).
- Base AI files (You will find them in this github repo)
- A github or discord account (optional) to share files.
- Your choice of notepad or IDE. Notepad++ works alright for this.
- Time.

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There will be AI exhibition matches every so often. Anyone may enter at any time up until the December 30th deadline. Good luck, have fun.

Tournament / Exhibition Schedule:

Ex1	November 18th
Ex2	Dec 2nd
Ex3	Dec 16th
Ex4	Dec 23rd
Final Exhibition	Dec 28th
Tournament stream	Dec 31st

Note: you do not have to show up at any time during the tournament, just keep your files up to date. Use PRs if you need to.

Exhibition matches will be streamed by me on twitch. Final tournament will be RR with 2 matchups each. Points will be awarded during the final tournament by the following table:

Win against other team	+2pts
Loss	-1pt
Draw (Match goes beyond 45:00)	0 pts for both

Ties will be broken based on an extra match with no time limit. Winner, who will receive an awesome community coin, is the team with the most points!

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Entries:

Future Wars	Name of team	Type
Shaman	Terror Mission	Circuit AI Config
N/A	Base FWBrutal	Circuit AI Config (Base)

Zero-K	Name of team	Type	Exhibition 1 Result
N/A	Brutal AI	Circuit AI Config (Base)	-1
Skel	SkelTestAI	Circuit AI Config	+4
Mach56	Supersonic	Circuit AI Config	+3
Niarteloc	TrainerAI	Circuit AI Config	N/A

So a tournament where we just pop our AI into github, and you run them. Fantastic concept.

I wonder if I can scrape together some time to try it. I hope you've done all the heavy lifting!

quote: It's a concept, trying to get people into modding more

Hah, I have plowed so many hours into some "things". Complex Lua is both friend and foe. Working on things just last night in fact.

Best Shaman thread ever :)

I'm open to suggestions for maps.

Alright, I have altered the config files a little, not by a lot but it's enough to do some things slightly differently from vanilla. How do I submit?
Edit: Ah, I see, let me get it ready for you and I'll make a PR.
Edit 2: Annnd submitted.

First Exhibition match was fun. [Spoiler]
Maybe next time we can have a the creators fighting alongside their ais for a bit of fun.

Anything is welcome to join, even Light Drone Spammer Recon Commanders and Frontline Air into Raptor Rushers. (This is a stream meme from last night between Mach56's and Skel's AI. True innovations of AI strategy going on!)

quote: Are you planning to track the tournament results somewhere?

Yes. Here's the results from last night:

Color coded victory

WIN

LOSS

DRAW

Match	AI 1	AI 2	Run time (Sim Time)	Map	Battle	Highlight	Twitch link
1	SkelTestAI	Brutal Circuit	65:38	Vittra	B1758600 0 on Vittra v2.1	Is it going to draw? + Brutal discovers a way to brick itself using lichos.	link
2	SkelTestAI	Brutal Circuit	18:04	Trojan Hills	B1758606 0 on Trojan Hills v05	LLTs aren't a thing	link
3	Supersonic	Brutal Circuit	14:00	Trojan Hills	B1758625 0 on Trojan Hills v05	Triple Lv5 Recon Commander is a "Legit Strategy"	link
4	Supersonic	Brutal Circuit	30:00	Vittra	B1758641 0 on Vittra v2.1	Lv5 Recon attempts to be a hero	link
5	Supersonic	SkelTestAI	24:00	Sparkle Reef	B1758654 0 on Sparkles Reef v1.01	King Seawolf's rise and fall	link
6	Supersonic	SkelTestAI	12:11	Icy Shell	B1758659 0 on Icy_Shell_v01	"I didn't config the AI"	link
7	Supersonic	SkelTestAI	61:00	Crystalized Plains	B1758683 0 on Crystallized Plains 1.01	Supersonic decides to do a rush to mid only to plop Air into Raptor rush	link
8	Supersonic	SkelTestAI	05:13	Hotstepper	B1758686 0 on hotstepper	Brutal comm rush	link

Note: Match 8 was a tiebreaker due to match 7's tiebreaker running over time.
Note 2: The 45 minute draw rule was extended to 60 minutes sim time due to low competition.

Finale:
Circuit vs SkelTestAI vs Supersonic on Hotstepper: B1758690 0 on hotstepper Twitch link
[Spoiler]

Bonus round:
link

Final scores:

+2	WIN
-1	LOSS
+0	DRAW

Name	W	L	D	Score	Place
Brutal Circuit	1	3	1	-1	THIRD
SkelTestAI	3	2	2	4	FIRST
Supersonic	3	3	1	3	SECOND

Stream VOD:
Full stream can be found here.
That one highlight everyone wants to see

If the youtube link does not work above, check it out here.

I’m not interested in competing at the moment, I know nothing about how these work… But I am interested in knowing what makes these tick, are they decision trees? State machines? Neutral networks?

Tried to get my LUA AIs downloadable but failed:

https://zero-k.info/Maps/Detail/63933
https://zero-k.info/Mods/Detail/33