I am really looking forward to building a nice AI again. Might sound strange but in order to not spoil it for myself I only do AI with Entelect. Do not want to do it so much that it becomes a chore when the challenge comes around…
A few days wait… Good things ahead…
Agreed. Really looking forward to getting going with this. I also don’t do AI as a daily thing, although it has always interested me. But also this challenge always seems to have it’s rules engine made in such a way that you can’t just slap a generic AI in there and that’s it. I really like that.
Anyway, like you said… good things ahead.
Really? The fact that we still have multiple options of what it might be, rather that unequivocal certainty on what it actually is is making me anxious.
At least by next week this time most of us will be coding at the challenge. Except me. I will be in NW without laptop/internet…
Imagines a world where the challenge was announced on 20 April
Hi,
I think this weeks codingame challenge will be tower defence: https://www.codingame.com/contests/code-royale
Should be fun while we wait for the Entelect challenge to launch.
/hijack
For the awesome members of the forum, here’s a sneak peek of the launch video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7VL4VZ3Z7U
Ooooh! Rickrolled! You got me.
yup. nice one, But that first second… that sounded a lot like Hell March…
I cannot wait for this year’s challenge. I hope its bomber man level complexity… Because lets be real… Bomber man was a bit of a beast.
This year I must just watch timeouts. I actually got a decent PC this year… Looking forward to the tournament, Hope we are continuing on with the golden ticket system… I like the sub tournaments. Its really good to be active throughout the whole challenge. I feel it raises the bar…
I know there’s a few of us whose been waiting for this since end October last year…
Bomberman was great. That and the Pacman challenge were my two favourite ones thus far. I also hope we see something of a similar level of complexity this time round.
My favorites were also pacman and bomberman and then especially tron. I think all the ones that had a significant planning/strategy component.
Unfortunately I did not compete in the bomberman one (the only one I missed since the start), but yeah pacman was quite fun. I did also enjoy the battleships one. I might not have been so much pure strategy, and had an element of luck in, but it had something different. Some psychological aspect of predicting where the majority of players would place their ships, and “reading the meta”. I found that quite interesting as well.
As for format… The battleships was by far the best. The evolving rules and golden ticket system was awesome. I hope they keep it similar this year (and maybe give a golden ticket to the first person who guessed the theme :P).
Either way I’m really looking forward to it taking up all my spare thinking time, and running game simulations during the night to analyse the results in the morning 
Ah, yes. Bomberman and pacman were the most fun. And the format of last year was also great.
Some things I hope for this year: GOOEY?sp challenge, hackathons and maybe not a file based exchange of data(rather rest service or stdin/stdout). One can only hope.
Arrre ye ready kids?
https://clyp.it/z4mg31n5
Building that anticipation…
The Yuri is still out on that…
Please stop the torture and click that deploy button.
Construction yard deployed? 
Nyet!
Let the Joules flow!
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