Good morning Challengers!
Same as last year, after Build-A-Bot we’ll be hosting Friendly matches again every Friday (if we don’t forget to press the button 
).
Just a reminder about “Friendlies”, they don’t count towards any scores or points. They are provided as a tool to test your bots against other participants.
Therefore, the “Friendlies” are an opt-in feature. Here’s how you can opt-in:
- Sign in to the Entelect Challenge portal challenge.entelect.co.za
- Open the sidebar and select “Settings”
- Choose the Tournaments tab on the left side
- Select the “Participate in friendly tournaments” checkbox
Your bot is now opted-in for “Friendlies”.
Since “Friendlies” are provided as a tool for you to improve, and not a formal tournament, you won’t be provided with the match logs or bot logs after a tournament. You will only receive the following information:
a. Your bot’s placement
b. Your bot’s score
c. The match seed
d. The match ID (if you need the Entelect Challenge team to debug a match)
e. The status of the match
Using this information, you should be able to run the matches locally and find out where your bot disobeyed orders. This information will be provided on the new “Friendlies” tab on the Submissions page
NB! The “Friendlies” require a minimum of 8 bots to be ready and opted-in in order to run the tournament.
If there are less than 8 bots ready and opted-in, the tournament will not run.
Are the friendly matches now run with the new hero window size (10)?