Waterloo / Google AI-Tron Challenge Results

The goal of this challenge was to write a computer-program capable of playing the game Tron.

The rankings for my Ruby bot:

• 146 / 708 Total Entries
• 3 / 23 Ruby Entries
• 16 / 88 Canadian Entries

The rankings were determined using tournament play along with the Elo rating system.

Early non-minmax versions of my bots are available on github. The winning C++ bot source is also available; as is a brief explanation by the author.

I enjoyed this challenge immensely. My Ruby programming skills also benefited from this Code Kata.

Update: A detailed examination of the winning bot. And if you’re brave, a Haskell bot explained. ;)

Also: The tron battle continues on dhartmei’s server.