Virtual Sumo Competition 2020

[@VvaltDV]

If anyone is interested, I made Moai inpired in a real life robot sumo from a robotics team called ThundeRatz which I was a member of for 3 years. I really enjoyed the virtual simulation :)

[@AlexPalmese]

Congrats! :-)

[@VvaltDV]

Thanks

[@potatoman8323]

Congrats on winning! You had the most unique robot in the competition. I hope next time you get to face off against my robot, Midnight Crow.

[@VvaltDV]

I can't wait to see Midnight Crow 2.0! Also, it would have been nice if there was a 3rd place battle between you and Query

[@jessicasimplicio9383]

Arrasou, DeWalt!!

[@lieverlooo]

Wow close second place for me! Congrats to the winner!

[@potatoman8323]

Congrats on second place. Also congrats on beating my robot, Midnight Crow.

[@potatoman8323]

This was a very fun competition. As the creator of Midnight Crow, it was fun to get learn how to code sumo bots. Also congrats to Xbotr for defeating my robot. Next time I'll come back with a better Midnight Crow!

[@roboton-io7768]

Midnight Crow did great! BTW you can already enter the next sumo competition: roboton.io/ranking/vsc2021-I

[@roboton-io7768]

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[@proplaz7915]

Just Entered P.C.S.M passed the box test and won a two fights

[@AlexPalmese]

Nice! Unfortunately I have lost on eight-final, btw, do anyone knows if the robot codes will be made available for download? Some years ago I entered some other programming challenge tournaments (CoreWars, anyone?) where all the codes were always available to improve knowledge sharing and better understand why you won over some and lost from others..

[@potatoman8323]

From what I can tell, I don't think they are sharing the code. Also congrats on top 16! By the way, what robot did you enter with.

[@roboton-io7768]

Hey Alex, I understand your point, but at this moment we don't share the code. Maybe some other time ...

[@AlexPalmese]

@@roboton-io7768 I understand your decision but I disagree, at least on this pretty simple Sumo challenge. Code sharing is essential to let anyone test their robots against the strongest ones. On CoreWars I was able to test my codes against the first world championship oarticipants. And as sumo is a few seconds match on a simple round arena, it doesn't involve any special or innovative programming solutions to be kept "secret". CoreWars had its worldwide success due to both its easy to learn language, like sumo, but also to code sharing, for the reasons I explained before. I'm sorry to say I won't participate again to Sumo without code sharing, and I think many other won't, because there's no way to improve our robots if the only opponent to test on is the random one or a self-written robot. A different situation can be car race, where, even if fhe "open source" philosophy IMHO is always the best approach for a quick and efficient improvenent, the "opponent" is the timer (i.e. you can test you car over many tracks and check the timings, no real need of a real opponent). It involves a huge number of programming problems and possible solutions (hundreds of times than those simple Sumo micro-robots), so I think there's no need to keep the code "secret", and as Sumo is a way to have more people join roboton project, an "open" behaviour will greatly improve Roboton diffusion. I hope you'll agree with me, because I really'd like to see Roboton spread with thousands of fans!

[@roboton-io7768]

@@AlexPalmese Hey Alex, but you can test your robot against any other robot submitted to the competition. You just go to the competition page and click the Fight button next to the robot you want to test agains.

[@roboton-io7768]

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Thank you for sharing, I like it.

[@spiritoflinz]

Nice!

[@tgirlpride2024]

why was my bot(I did ok, that was its name) not in this?

[@potatoman8323]

I may be because of two different reasons The first is the to compete it must pass the box test. The second reason is that to enter, you have to go click on the competition, click join, and the code a robot from there.

[@tgirlpride2024]

@@potatoman8323 it passed I think and I summited

[@roboton-io7768]

@@tgirlpride2024 Can you send me a message through the question mark button on the roboton.io website? I can take a look at it, but I think @PotatoMan is right. You probably made a general sumo design and have not submit it to the competition. We will try to make this more clear in the future. Luckily there is already a new competition roboton.io/ranking/vsc2021-I

[@roboton-io7768]

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[@tgirlpride2024]

@@roboton-io7768 wait really??!?? :0