IEEE CoG 2019 PPT

1. IEEE Conference on Games
IEEE CoG 2019
StarCraft AI Competition
Kyung-Joong Kim1 and Seonghun Yoon2
Cognition and Intelligence Lab (http://cilab.gist.ac.kr)
1Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), GwangJu, Korea
2Sejong University, Seoul, Korea

2. StarCraft AI Competition (Since 2010)
• StarCraft Brood War, Real-Time Strategy
Game
• BWAPI (Brood War Programming Interface)
• C++ or JAVA or Proxy Bot (any programming
language)
• Winner is the one with highest win ratio
• AI vs. AI, Full-round robin style competition
• 5 maps used using seed number of
participants(randomly selected from official
maps)
• 40 rounds, Total 14,027 games (using 14 VMs)
• Open-source policy 2
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StarCraft Brood War

4. 4
Submissions
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5
10
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20
25
30
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
10 10
8
13 14 16
20
27 27
The Number of Submissions
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Protoss
30%
Terran
33%
Zerg
33%
Random
4%
RACE OF ENTRIES

5. Results Announcement
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Rank Bot Name WinRace Lose Win RateGame
Result ( 𝟏 𝒔𝒕
~ 𝟑 𝒓𝒅
)
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1 PurpleWave 1,040 921 119 88.56%
Congratulation!
Winner of IEEE CoG 2019
StarCraft AI Competition
PurpleWave by Dan GantHigh-level decision making with a Task Network
Fast clustering to form ad-hoc combat squads
Estimate the outcome with a simple simulator
2 McRave 1,040 889 151 85. 48%
Jump Point Search pathfinding for most unit movement
UCB learning for build orders
3 Locutus 1,040 883 157 84. 90%
Opening learning based on results of previous matches
against opponent
CoG 2019

7. Result ( 𝟏 𝒔𝒕
~ 𝟏𝟎 𝒕𝒉
)
7
2 McRave 1,040 889 151 85. 48%
3 Locutus 1,040 883 157 84. 90%
Rank Bot Name WinRace Lose Win RateGame
1 Purplewave 1,040 921 119 88.56%
5 BananaBrain 1,040 778 262 74.81%
6 XIAOYI 1,040 751 289 72.21%
4 Iron 1,040 790 250 75.96%
8 ZZZKBot 1,040 721 319 69.33%
9 BetaStar 1,037 699 338 67.41%
7 Microwave 1,040 732 308 70.38%
10 MetaBot 1,040 614 426 59.04%
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Result ( 𝟏𝟏 𝒕𝒉
~ 𝟐𝟎 𝒕𝒉
)
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12 Letabot 1,040 599 441 57.60%
13 TitanIron 1,040 586 454 56.35%
Rank Bot Name WinRace Lose Win RateGame
11 Overkill 1,040 611 429 58.75%
15 Aiur 1,040 518 522 49.81%
16 UAIbertaBot 1,036 513 523 49.52%
14 Ecgberht 1,040 539 501 51.83%
18 CUNYbot 1,039 341 698 32.82%
19 Tyr 1,027 324 703 31.55%
17 TerranUAB 1,040 386 654 37.12%
20 Bonjwa 1,040 308 732 29.62%
Version
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CoG 2019

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2018 bot
Result ( 𝟐𝟏 𝒔𝒕
~ 𝟐𝟕 𝒕𝒉
)
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22 Steamhammer 1,040 277 763 26.63%
23 SRbotOne 1,037 261 776 25.17%
Rank Bot Name WinRace Lose Win RateGame
21 Ziabot 1,040 305 735 29.33%
25 Sling 1,040 227 813 21.83%
26 Korean 1,040 142 898 13.65%
24 OpprimoBot 1,038 241 797 23.22%
27 Salsa 1,040 71 969 6.83%
Version
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CoG 2019

10. CIG 2018

12. Dave Churchill
Organizer of AIIDE StarCraft AI Competition
Acknowledgements
Michal Certicky and his team
Organizer of Student StarCraft AI Tournament
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13. Thank You
Email: kjkim@gist.ac.kr
https://cilab.gist.ac.kr/sc_competition
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0.65
0.7
0.75
0.8
0.85
NeoHeart(2) Alchemist(3) GreatBarrier(3) NeoSniper(4) Python(4)
Win Ratio on the Five Maps
Protoss
Terran
Zerg