SharkChallenge

What good is surfing against a shark?

http://davidalves.net/robocode/robots/wiki.challenge.Shark_1.0.jar

Shark Challenge I: Targeting

It's very easy to beat Shark. MyFirstRobot beats Shark, for example. However, it's not easy to beat Shark by a large margin. Show off your your % score vs. Shark in a 1000 battle here:

Note: Shark uses the movement from RaikoMicro 1.44 and a very simple random gun.

Author	Robot	% score	Comments
PEZ	CassiusClay 1.9.9.20	76.027%	-
wcsv	Stampede2 1.1	74.312%	My experimental bot.
David Alves	YALT 1.722	73.228%	-
iiley	Pear 0.5	72.337%	skipped 22534 times:(
Pulsar	PulsarMax 0.5.20	71.218%	-
Mat Nelson	TrackFire	68.549%	-
Mat Nelson	MyFirstRobot	53.463%	-

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Shark Challenge II: Surfing

Your score in Shark Challenge I is a measure of how good your aim is. Since Shark's aim is random, your score should be about the same amount whether you use your most advanced Surfing or don't move at all. So here's SharkChallenge II to test your movement.

Shark uses the movement from RaikoMicro 1.44, completely untouched. Therefore, the difference between RaikoMicro's score against you and Shark's score against you is completely due to the difference in their guns. A surfer should be able to surf RaikoMicro's bullets and therefore lower RaikoMicro's bullet damage. A truly amazing surfer might even be able to exploit the predictability of RaikoMicro's gun to make it hit less often than a random gun would. Can you?

Your Shark Challenge II score is (Shark 1.0's bullet damage against you) - (RaikoMicro 1.44's bullet damage against you). 1000 rounds each, 800x600.

Note: Higher is better, but I'm not sure that positive scores are possible.

Author	Robot	Shark's Bullet Damage	RM's Bullet Damage	Score
PEZ	CassiusClay 1.9.9.20	23973	31088	-7115

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I think that to make challenge II really relevant Shark must be equipped with the same EnergyManagement as RaikoMicro. -- PEZ