This year we will be "running" two distinct but related contests.
We will announce/show the results at the banquet.

The attached files are the basis for the contests.

<h2>Contest #1 -- "Risk" playing Bot</h2>

Create a robot to play a "Risk" like game using SampleBot.tcl as a starting point.

Robots will play a double round robin.  Starting at "high noon" on
Wednesday.  In each match a robot will be awarded points as follows:

  *  0 points -- lost
  *  1 point -- tie
  *  2 points -- win

Winner on pure points.

<h2>Contest #2 -- Display of BotGame</h2>

Write a program to display the "log" of a game (you can modify the
RunGame.tcl to output whatever you want as a log) either via Tk or
HTML/JavaScript -- the "driver" has to be Tcl based.  See the WorldMap
files.

Winner(s) to be judged by artistic merit (whatever that means).

To run:

<ol><pre>tclsh8.6 RunGame.tcl gameName gameDir mapSpec bot_1_name bot_1_path
bot_2_name

Where:
<ol>
<br>gameName     - name of the game
<br>gameDir        - directory game files are in
<br>mapSpec         - map specification file (i.e. WorldMap.tcl)
<br>bot_1_name     - name of bot #1
<br>bot_1_path        - command to launch bot #1
<br>bot_2_name     - name of bot #2
<br>bot_2_path        - command to launch bot #2
</ol>

This is all based on


Now contains all the files we got from Gerald, with some changes, namely

  *  Fixed a few typos in the sample bot and in the engine
  *  Refactored the engine internally a bit
  *  Gave the engine a higher-level log written to stderr.
<ol>
  *  An example of this log is in the repository
  *  The log should be Tcl-readable (lines of Tcl lists)
  *  This should be a good starting point for visualization/replay of a
game.
</ol>
  *  Added two manager scripts, Shootout and Tournament.
<ol>
  *  The shootout takes two bots, possibly the same and runs
     them through a series of independent matches (50 by default)
     and accumulates the results. This should allow you to judge
     relative strength better.
  *  The tournament takes a directory of bots and runs them against
     each other per the rules Gerald listed in his initial mail.
  *  Both scripts save the lower- and higher-level log in the logs/ subdir
     of the world directory they operate in.
     For reviewing things, and also as a source of game logs for
visualization.
</ol>
  *  Call either script without arguments to see the usage information.

All in all having these infrastructure script should allow us to focus
on writing a bot, and not on writing helper scripts.

  *  Access without login, and anon access have standard permissions.
  *  So, everybody should be able to clone.
  *  Anon login can get zip/tar balls from a revision.