[SSCAIT] Student StarCraft AI Tournament & Ladder

SSCAIT 2019/20

There were 45 bots in the 2019/20 installment of SSCAIT. The tournament was divided into two phases:

Round Robin tournament of 1980 games, where everybody played two games against everybody else. After this, 16 bots with the best score proceeded into next phase.
Double elimination bracket of the 16 best bots.

Round Robin results:

The best RR win rate of 93.18% was achieved by Locutus bot by Bruce Mackenzie Nielsen.

The 16 best bots proceeding to the elimination bracket:

Locutus (P)
PurpleWave (P)
BetaStar (P)
Hao Pan (T)
BananaBrain (P)
Iron Bot (T)
ZNZZBot (P)
Dragon (T)
MicroWave (Z)
Proxy (Z)
Steamhammer (Z)
KillerBot (Z)
MadMixP (P)
XIAOYICOG2019 (T)
TyrProtoss (P)
Bereaver (P)

Elimination Bracket Videos:

The elimination bracket winner is PurpleWave bot, developed by Dan Gant (member of Facebook's team behind CherryPi bot). The bracket results are shown below.

All the elimination games can be watched in this YouTube playlist.

Double Elimination Bracket results:

Score after round-robin phase:

Name	Race	Win Rate	Score (wins)	Losses	Description	Division	Updated
Locutus	Protoss	93.18%	82	6	Resistance is futile! https://github.com/bmnielsen/Locutus BASIL:PUBLISH-READ	Mixed	2019-12-21 21:44:56
PurpleWave	Protoss	90.91%	80	8	Built with love. https://github.com/dgant/PurpleWave BASIL:PUBLISH-READ	Mixed	2019-12-22 21:58:20
BetaStar	Protoss	86.36%	76	12	Our bot is based on CSE, improving the code and strategy against all three races, and using a new machine learning module.	Student: Nanjing University	2019-09-07 15:13:26
Hao Pan	Terran	85.23%	75	13	Halo by Hao Pan, playing as Terran. Based on Iron bot. Uses VS2017, BWAPI 4.4.0, BWEM-community, FAP, special tactics. BASIL: PB-KEY-0xFB1DFE42	Mixed	2019-12-23 00:00:03
BananaBrain	Protoss	80.68%	71	17	Come to the dark side; we have candy! BASIL: PUBLISH-READ,MAP-POOL:2019Season1	Mixed	2019-12-21 03:17:19
Iron bot	Terran	80.68%	71	17	Stone's successor http://bwem.sourceforge.net/Iron.html Iron uses the BWEM library: http://bwem.sourceforge.net	Mixed	2019-03-17 10:08:23
Dragon	Terran	76.14%	67	21	Based on https://github.com/TorchCraft/TorchCraftAI (CherryPI).	Mixed	2019-05-06 18:00:37
ZNZZBot	Protoss	76.14%	67	21	BotName: ZNZZ. Race: Protoss. Authors: Guanlin Wu, Wenqian Liang, Shaotong Luan, Haoming Zhang, Jiaqi Yang（NJU）. Guides ：Weidong Bao，Xiaomin Zhu，Ji Wang. Email： [email protected]	Student: National University of Defense Technology	2019-12-20 01:21:48
Microwave	Zerg	71.59%	63	25	* Learning files BASIL: PB-KEY-0xE9AA1BEA	Mixed	2019-12-21 18:01:31
Proxy	Zerg	68.18%	60	28	Some bug fixes to stop the bot throwing so much. Mutalisk micro is WIP. Using BWEM and FAP.	Mixed	2019-01-22 17:40:16
Steamhammer	Zerg	67.05%	59	29	Steamhammer 2.4.1 by Jay Scott. Tournament version. http://satirist.org/ai/starcraft/steamhammer/ BASIL:PUBLISH-READ,MAP-POOL:2019Season1	Mixed	2019-12-22 20:09:15
Marian Devecka	Zerg	64.77%	57	31	Savage zerg bot. Shows no mercy. BASIL:PUBLISH-READ,MAP-POOL:2019Season1	Mixed	2019-05-05 13:20:43
MadMixP	Protoss	62.5%	55	33	MadMix version 0.5.5 playing as Protoss. Built with the goal of finding an entertaining mix of units, strategies and madness. BASIL:PUBLISH-READ,MAP-POOL:2019Season1	Mixed	2019-12-22 15:44:38
XIAOYICOG2019	Terran	61.36%	54	34		Mixed	2019-10-10 07:45:00
Bereaver	Protoss	59.09%	52	36	Tomato! strategies.json (put into bwapi-data/read): http://goo.gl/Xgx2Z3	Mixed	2016-12-19 02:38:42
TyrProtoss	Protoss	59.09%	52	36	Tyr has joined the mighty Protoss! Check out my blog: http://tyr-ai.net	Mixed	2018-03-18 21:32:03
StyxZ	Zerg	56.82%	50	38	Turtles all the way down.	Mixed	2019-12-22 21:14:31
legacy	Random	55.68%	49	39	myfirstbot	Mixed	2019-05-12 15:22:43
Arrakhammer	Zerg	52.27%	46	42	Zerg based on Steamhammer 1.2.2. https://github.com/avan994/Arrakhammer	Mixed	2018-08-09 07:26:59
Tomas Vajda	Protoss	52.27%	46	42	XIMP bot. Carrier push.	Mixed	2015-02-05 00:05:59
Andrew Smith	Protoss	52.27%	46	42	Disabled as skyforknet is a fixed version of this one ----- Version 2.1 of Skynet	Mixed	2013-05-25 11:53:18
WuliBot	Protoss	51.14%	45	43	Customized AI on UalbertaBot https://github.com/XiangyuLi926/CSCI-524-Networked-AI	Mixed	2018-03-01 07:47:19
NLPRbot	Zerg	50%	44	44		Mixed	2017-09-04 12:38:08
Martin Rooijackers	Terran	47.73%	42	46	LetaBot: MCTS coming fully after the SSCAI tournament is over. Experimental version for this tournament. TvZ specialist. https://github.com/MartinRooijackers/LetaBot	Mixed	2017-12-20 22:34:36
ICELab	Terran	46.59%	41	47	ICEbot 2.1 from Intelligent Computer Entertainment Lab., Ritsumeikan University. Potential flows, finite state machine, enemy strategy prediction which triggers adaptive strategy rules and a lot of other heuristic things are applied in this bot.	Mixed	2013-12-22 16:47:59
WillyT	Terran	45.45%	40	48	C++/VS17/BWAPI 4.4.0 --- bio+scv into bio+mech --- update: lots of small changes, stability check	Mixed	2019-12-14 21:49:03
AILien	Zerg	44.32%	39	49	Latest Changes: - Zerglings no longer suicide into sunkens when Mutas are around - Units no longer just watch when Drones are slaughtered - when an enemy is seen before the base is found units will come back immediately	Mixed	2018-03-01 02:20:13
Ecgberht	Terran	44.32%	39	49	King of Wessex.--------------------- https://github.com/Jabbo16/Ecgberht BASIL: RESET,PB-KEY-4E5297FFDB40A6FA	Student: Universidad Carlos III Madrid	2019-09-23 22:48:40
Simplicity	Zerg	43.18%	38	50	BWAPI 4.4.0 with JBWAPI and BWEM. A few new features, plus many new bugs! BASIL:PUBLISH-READ	Mixed	2019-12-17 22:06:40
Dave Churchill	Random	42.05%	37	51	https://github.com/davechurchill/ualbertabot	Mixed	2015-12-24 09:33:23
Sijia Xu	Zerg	40.91%	36	52	https://github.com/sijiaxu/Overkill	Mixed	2015-10-10 17:37:53
CUBOT	Zerg	38.64%	34	54	Adaptive weights toward different opponents.	Student: China University of Mining and Technology	2018-12-20 08:10:59
Flash	Protoss	37.5%	33	55	Reactive protoss with carrier. Based on ualbertabot.	Mixed	2016-04-25 05:16:50
NiteKatT	Terran	36.36%	32	56	Version 1.13a. Can play 1:1, FFA, Top vs. Bottom, and even Team Melee and Team Free For All! http://github.com/nitekat/BGHBot	Mixed	2018-05-14 06:40:45
Soeren Klett	Terran	32.95%	29	59	W.O.P.R - Bot - Monitoring and replanning	Student: University of Bielefeld	2016-03-07 23:26:18
MegaBot2017	Protoss	32.95%	29	59	[Improved scoring and crash discounting, regarding previous version] MegaBot selects a "sub"-bot to play a match in its behalf. So far it selects among 2015 versions of Skynet, Xelnaga and NUSBot.	Student: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	2017-10-27 13:55:36
insanitybot	Terran	26.14%	23	65	Made from Steamhammer. Updates will not happen for a while. Finishing up school and plan to remake insanitybot from scratch afterwards. Much love.	Student: Brigham Young University Idaho	2019-07-12 18:54:33
Yuanheng Zhu	Protoss	22.73%	20	68	Probe rush	Mixed	2017-08-18 04:43:48
Florian Richoux	Protoss	22.73%	20	68	AIUR v2.2. Please visit http://aiur-group.github.io/AIUR/" target="_blank">aiur-group.github.io/AIUR/ for further information.	Mixed	2014-10-30 14:32:16
Bryan Weber	Zerg	19.32%	17	71	This version contains the work of Kiwook Kwoon, a Data Science student at the CUNY Graduate Center. goo.gl/1tJwZo BASIL:PUBLISH-READ	Mixed	2019-12-21 21:51:05
Aurelien Lermant	Zerg	15.91%	14	74	GarmBot is a Macro-heavy bot, expanding rapidly to try and overwhelm the enemy with an unstopable stream of zerg units. Still a lot of optimisations to be done. Latest update : Ultralisks and more upgrades.	Mixed	2018-05-12 10:18:10
Matej Istenik	Terran	15.91%	14	74	Simple Terran bot based on agents, state machines and lots of ifs.	Mixed	2016-03-04 21:19:44
Marine Hell	Terran	14.77%	13	75	This bot was written from scratch in 5 hours following official tutorial. I would like to keep it "as it is" to show how easy can be to write simple bot which is capable of winning. Source codes : https://github.com/libor-vilimek/marine-hell	Mixed	2017-03-15 10:21:29
Junkbot	Terran	13.64%	12	76	A scrappy Terran bot, converted from Java to C++, based off Steamhammer/UAB. v0.1.0: Looking to see how it fairs at this stage.	Student: Purdue University Fort Wayne	2019-03-04 08:32:15
McRave	Protoss	12.5%	11	77	AIIDE 2019 Version. https://github.com/Cmccrave/McRave BASIL:PUBLISH-READ	Mixed	2019-12-22 22:22:29