SSCAIT early returns

SSCAIT has only been underway for a short time. Results so far are very rough and will change. Even so, Steamhammer is scoring about as expected, currently 10-4 for #10. It has played more games than most bots. A good sign is that it has played more games against the top 16 than any other bot in the top 16, and still held its expected position.

A bad sign is that Steamhammer has two wins over opponents that did not start up: Halo by Hao Pan and Stardust. Stardust has 3 losses, all against opponents it should beat easily. None of the 3 has a replay recorded on Stardust’s side, so it must have failed to start all 3 games. If it’s the server’s fault, either the server bug has a bias or else Stardust is extremely unlucky. In a real game, Steamhammer has good odds against Hao Pan (better than 2:1), but virtually no chance against Stardust.

The ranking will change a lot before the end. So far, BetaStar and PurpleWave have perfect records with 7 and 6 games played respectively. BananaBrain, Monster, and Krasi0P follow with around 90%.

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Dan on Saturday, January 1. 2022:

There are quite a lot of games where one bot failed to connect. Eyeballing match histories suggests it's around 15% of games. There's an example from the stream at https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1249692394 at 4:29:17.

It's Stardust vs. StyxZ, from StyxZ's perspective:

1. Stardust reports "BWAPI 4.4 tournament mode engaged"

2. Stardust reports "No activity detected in first in-game minute, exiting"

3. On frame 5197 (5:24 on the TM timer) Stardust disconnects with the 45 second countdown

Jay Scott on Sunday, January 2. 2022:

You’re right, it might be that high. It’s way too much. :-(

Dan on Sunday, January 2. 2022:

Oyvind put together a script which attempts to identify games suffering from the issue: https://github.com/Gathers/sscait-find-non-start

It identified 45 of 323 games having at least one bot failing to start, for about 14% failure rate.

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