Hiya,
I have been assessing some tournament data and would want to know if you can possibly drop us the tournament match config,
Like we have in our run.bat / run.sh:
REM Set default values
set MAX_TICKS=1000
set TICK_DURATION=200
mapsize (is it fixed)
Im currently reading mapsize from the cells but only receive that around round 2.
So want to know if I can safely hardcode the width and height of the map.
@natash will there be any new game engine changes before the final tournament?
Hi @Kortgat!
No, there won’t be any more game engine changes before the tournament 
Hi @WillieTheron, thanks for the query!
The map size is configured according to the values in appsettings.json, and we won’t be changing these for the final tournament.
Awww okay,
Now I’m never going to catch @WillieTheron 
@THEKVN just wait till Comicon, when you see him bag him tag him and we ship him on a train to Cape town… guess that counts as catching … 
@natash do you perhaps know what the tournament format is going to be? Round Robin? Double Elimination?
How many times do I need to beat @WillieTheron and @Kortgat , maybe I get lucky haha
Goodluck bagging a Demi Human…
In spirit of Zootopia I decided on a basic low key Demi Human focus for Saturday.
The pattern has been Round Robin, I also feel thats most fair,
We have had years where players would beat stronger bots cause they had Counter Strategy advantage,
That said however im not so sure that this last Tournament Environment is the most accurate for the competition,
And to answer that you have to be able to answer the question:
What is the difference between the Finals and the 2nd Tournament?
Theres one massive change that does not allow anyone to assume superiority and it also means that everyone still has a chance at taking this thing.
@WillieTheron what would that change be?..
No free lunch… In the 2nd event we had a lot of weaker bots,
They distracted zookeepers, didnt utilize their powerups,
So you can have a match where theres 3 broken / weak bots,
So it was possible to do a 1 Million match, I have seen 1.15Million against my T1 bot (didnt warp edges so it basically led the zookeepers around the map for 2000 ticks),
But thats not happening in the finals,
I suspect matches will be a lot closer as a result,
But I have no regrets with the entry I made,
I wrote my bot to try and just maximize my base score, (lets say 256 x 2000) ish, so 5 Million, with powerups as a bonus on that, not get caught, try and stay out of the zookeepers sights as much as possible.
I saw some really interesting maps,
Those single entry rounded corridors that doesnt even matter till theres a Scavenge wedged in there…