Results for UCSD Spring 2004 Programming Contest


This years software battle bot contest consisted of teams using an API to rule the land in a strategy competition called CodeRuler. Each team started off with 1 castle, a set of knights and pawns. Pawns can claim land, and the more land you have the more points you get at the end of the battle and the faster you create new pieces. Knights are used to capture other teams castles, and to destroy other team's pawns and knights. In addition, the more castles you capture the faster you create new pawns and knights, and the more points you get. We had a blast, with 120+ undergraduates competing.

During the first 5 hours, the students programmed their CodeRuler, tested it locally on their machine, and in a public practice contest. After all the final Software Bots were submitted, a qualifying contest was run where 65 CodeRulers teams competed for the top 18 spots for the finals. 6 teams competed against each other at a time on the battle field racking up points for capturing castles, claiming land, and destroying pawns and knights. During qualifying, 3 rounds were run, where each team competed once per round. At the end of the qualifying contest, the 18 teams with the most points went on to the finals. The finals where then run for 5 rounds to determine the top 10 teams for the prizes. The winning honors go to Alex Simma and Stefan Dorsett.

Thanks goes to Mike Dini of the The Dini Group for providing the prizes, food and drinks. Michel Van Biesbrouck deserves a lot of praise for setting up and running the software for the contest. Jeremy Lau and John Bellardo, also helped set up the contest software and helped answer questions at the contest. Thanks also goes to Jack Pham, John Rapp, Stefan Schoenmackers, Jena Calder, and Geoff Voelker for helping out. Thanks also goes to Tim deBoer and John Clevenger from IBM for providing the CodeRuler contest environment and software.

Top 10 Finishing Teams for the Finals were:

Place	Points	Team Name			Team Members
-----	------	---------			------------
  0	15996	Nicely inconspicuous Ford	Dorsett,Stefan     & Simma,Alex
  1	15984	XXX_420_XXX			Heffron,James      & Lee,Gunny
  2	13677	PWN				Hsieh,Thomas       & Lee,Kevin
  3	8892	Code Ninja			benner,scott       & Wood,Andrew
  4	8294	the BURNINATOR			Hui,Bekki          & Butko,Nick
  5	8014	You Got No Game			Fedder,Mathew      & reuter,paul
  6	7640	Kevin and Santos		Palmer,David
  7	6451	Evil Monkeys			Arena,Ben          & Lyubskiy,Dmitriy
  8	5914	My Ruler 52			Dinh,Thi           & Tran,Trung
  9	5808	thebends			Porter,Allen
  10	5303	G1S_a				Cordon,Santos      & Smith,Kevin
  11	5126	Bow Down			Whynot,Abbie       & Bozorgmehr,Pouya
  12	4745	Lucky~!				Liu,Zhao           & Hom,Karen
  13	4555	AW URBASE R BLONG 2 UZ		Chen,Siqi          & Kuramoto,Jeffrey
  14	4125	Sir Sia Bot			Le,Tam             & Babenko,Boris
  15	3980	Whatever v.2			Tan-atichat,Taurin & Duong,Harrison
  16	3636	Manborghini			Shah,Shreyans      & Trimble,Troy
  17	1463	Team Oracle			Doman,Matt         & Worley,Evan

The Results from the Qualifying Round:

Place   Points	Team Name
-----	------	---------
  0	12368	Nicely inconspicuous Ford	
  1	11242	PWN	
  2	7801	the BURNINATOR	
  3	7223	XXX_420_XXX	
  4	6680	thebends	
  5	5787	You Got No Game	
  6	5478	Code Ninja	
  7	5226	Whatever v.2	
  8	4670	Sir Sia Bot	
  9	4563	Kevin and Santos
  10	4294	Bow Down	
  11	4150	Manborghini	
  12	3925	Lucky~!	
  13	3892	My Ruler 52	
  14	3877	G1S_a	
  15	3820	AW URBASE R BLONG 2 UZ	
  16	3818	Evil Monkeys	
  17	3653	Team Oracle	
  18	3637	gravity	
  19	3496	B33fy 	
  20	3486	MagiShoe	
  21	3454	Sir Paul Kube KBE	
  22	3425	Xilinx_Sucks	
  23	3290	Kit-Kat	
  24	3107	Royal Rib	
  25	2940	Border_Patrol	
  26	2922	YGGL	
  27	2813	Wing Zero	
  28	2806	Prelude Power	
  29	2667	Kingdom	
  30	2633	Team 17	
  31	2629	Koopa Troopas	
  32	2577	Street Bums	
  33	2466	No pixels for oil	
  34	2451	KILLJOY	
  35	2436	TheWallpapers	
  36	2293	100 Gram	
  37	2149	.	
  38	2125	HashTaybo™	
  39	1968	Artificial Life	
  40	1689	CASWILL	
  41	1655	MR	
  42	1651	Team Ramrod	
  43	1648	Drunk Ruler	
  44	1530	myLifeIsAJoke	
  45	1458	G1S_b	
  46	1443	KTMC	
  47	1409	FerretBot	
  48	1284	Gordon	
  49	1236	Your Mother	
  50	1135	huh?	
  51	1129	KungFu Barbie	
  52	737	Beginner's Luck	
  53	645	Sir Finn Crisp	
  54	542	$$NQ$$	
  55	430	Tron	
  56	400	Dream Team	
  57	400	WrathOfGod	
  58	384	zzzzzz	
  59	341	iGot0wned	
  60	159	Var	
  61	132	Core Dumps	
  62	112	HAPKOMAH	
  63	61	GummyBear	
  64	24	UCSDPC