If you are an aspiring new bot author (and if you are not, you should be), you might only know about SSCAIT, but in fact, there are multiple great tournaments you can participate in. In this post, I collected and tried to describe everything about these tournaments there is to know. There is nothing stopping you to participate in each and every one of them.

SSCAIT – Student Starcraft Artificial Intelligence Tournament

If you are reading this blog, you are probably familiar with this. The defining, and ongoing bot ladder, with a yearly tournament. Rules.

• Supports Java, and C++ bots
• Ladder is 0/24 year round, and there is a weekly cast by in the Youtube channel.

AIIDE –  Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 

The tournament tied to the AIIDE conference. “The purpose of this competition is to foster and evaluate progress of AI research applied to real-time strategy (RTS) games”. Rules.

• You must register beforehand, there is no ladder.
• All bots are made open source after the tournament
• Prizes are “maybe”, though the event holds great prestige.

AIST – Artifical Intelligence Starcraft Tournament

Organized by great community member, and Undermind guest, Antiga. Here is the main page, and the page for the current season.  It’s goal is to replicate the most recent pro season.

Key points:

• Human-like latency, and tournament bracket rules 
• There is a cash prize(!)
• The winner bot gets to play against a human.
• Any bot can participate that is supported by SC-docker
• There is a challenge WHERE YOU CAN WIN PIZZA

BASIL – No one knows what the acronym actually stands for.

By Bytekeeper, basically SSCAIT without voting. Rules.

• Also SC-docker based.
• All bots uploaded to SSCAIT automatically participate, though you can opt-out.

AITT – AI TINYCRAFT TOURNAMENT

McRave’s fun projects for bots with small source code (<3000 bytes). Everything you need to know is on the page.

IEEE CIG – Computational Intelligence and Games tournament

Hosted by Sejong university, another important tournament. For the 2018 page, click here. – At the moment, the page seems a little unorganized.

I plan to pin and update this post, so if you have a tournament, or want to include some extra info here, please let me know.