RambotChallenge2K6

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Welcome to the RambotChallenge2K6. It's an attempt at measuring ramming performance. The rules are simple.

• The Challenger must be a bot with ramming as main strategy.
• The Challenger is free to fire at will
• There are 4 Referencebots, all real versions none of which is crippled.
  • CassiusClay 1.9.9.96bd - WaveSurfer, GuessFactorTargeting
  • DoctorBob 1.42 - Oscillator, sortof linear targeting
  • HawkOnFire 0.1 - MinimumRiskMovement, HeadOnTargeting
  • RaikoMicro 1.44 - Random orbital movement, GuessFactorTargeting
• The Challenger meet each reference bot in battle over 500 rounds.
• The Challenger's score against each reference bot is calculated like "challenger score / (challenger score + referencebot score)"
  • Average the scores against each reference bot to get the total score.
  • Next to that the bulletdamage and ramdamage of the challenger are noted

Note that at least 15% of the damage must come from ramming, otherwise the bot is not qualified as rambot.

Please post your bots' results on the /Results page. RoboLeague can ease running this challenge.

The Referencebots and an RoboLeague xml file can be obtained here: http://home.versatel.nl/gheijenk/robocode/things/RC_Reference.zip

Results chatting is best carried out on the /ResultsChat page.

If you're curious about how we arrived at this bot set and the rules, check out the /PreChat page for the discussion.

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Would you guys consider adding an AntiGravity Bot to the list of references? I'm just curious wether they'd be pinned against the wall or escape the Rammers :-) -- Dummy

Anti-gravity works well against some, but others (notably GrubbmThree) will corall their opponent into a corner and pin them there. The best combination I came up with (given the tools I'd already created) was tangental oscillation (e.g. SnippetBot) with low anti-gravity fields from walls and the opponent's robot. The 'tango' movement throws off targeting and also gives rammers the slip (often) even when already collided with. -- Martin