Competitions



Group Comptetions and Tournaments #3 :: 10/01/2009

The Schedule for competitions is now placed Here.

Competitions will take place at 11:00 PM from cs4500tmp.ccs.neu.edu. See the links below for status and related pages.

Note: If your player dies at some point, you should try to restart it on the same port, with "--noreg" so that is can still take place in the Tournament. If it dies during the tournament, then you can still restart it, so you don't miss the rest of the games for your player.

Key Notes

  • IMPORTANT: If you didn't update your SCGLibs JAR last night, then you need to do it now, before building your player.

    Also, the Administrator needs to run several competitions for the Tournament, so leave your Players running all night long

  • The rest of the stuff is old news... send an email to the class list if you have any questions.
  • Check the current admin status (see the links below) after your player registers and during the competition to be sure everything is running smoothly... I know I will be.

Competition Links

Competition Status Current Administrator status
Competition Directory Where the competitions will be run from. When a competition is done, there will be a directory for each competition named "group_N" and "tournament_N". Those directories will contain:
  • final_results_*.html: shows the final table (Balances for a Group Comp., points for a Tournament)
  • admin_*.log Admin related messages (Mostly registration)
  • game_*.log Game related messages (During competition)
  • history_*.txt Full competition history (for tournaments it provides a summary)
  • tournament_*-vs-*.txt Individual match histories for all pairs during a tournament
scglibs.jar The most recent SCGLibs JAR for your Player.
admin.jar The Administrator JAR we will be using. It will likely be updated often with fixes, enhancements, and fresh bugs.

Password Problems

If your Player cannot register and you've tried all possible passwords, then refer to the email I sent to the list. (i.e., send me the hash of the password you want to use)

Key Command

You'll need to run your player using your TeamName and Password. You can do this using Eclipse, but it may be faster to run it from the command line. Here's what I'll be running for the basic player: 
    java -Xss6M -jar BasicPlayer.jar 9000 aurail.ccs.neu.edu "BasicPlayer" "w1nn3r"

Good Luck!