Pencils Down - Tests In
The deadline for submitting bots for the seeding tournament has passed and it doesn't look like there will be any more lectures from now till the end of the competition. I wonder what new maps and strategies will turn up during the seeding tournament.
It'll Be Interesting To See
It seems now with automated matching up and running it's almost as if they loosely followed the earlier posted idea for the scrimmage server. Which leads me to wonder how much different the tournament results will be from the rankings currently shown from the automated matches. I guess we'll see.
The first tournament was a test of robustness, making sure you didn't overlook any obvious situations that should have been thought of. Such as if your archon is pinned down and can't move. It was also a chance for the devs to see what kinds of game balancing were still needed.
I think this tournament will be a lot more interesting in the fact that everyone's bots seem to be getting pretty complex and far more intelligent. I think the tournament will be more about endurance than robustness as before.
