To participate in the Camel Cup AI Cup you have to create your own AI to control a bot. A few simple bots are already provided for you as examples so there is not much to it!

Some sample bots are included in the folder CamelCup.Player/Bots You can use them as examples for how to do basic stuff. Feel free to utilize the static CamelHelper class, which can help you brute force camel movement outcomes.

The interface each bot must follow is included in the CamelCup.External folder, under ExternalModels/ICamelCupPlayer.cs. Each bot must be assigned this interface. Each bot is required to have a parameterless constructor (not even default parameters)! Give the bot a unique namespace and name.

To create the final bot, modify the CamelCup.Player/MyBot.cs file. After compiling the solution with your final bot, rename CamelCup.Player.dll to .dll and provide it to the tournament organizer! Remember that the CamelCup.Player-project should only include 1 bot, so that the user of the final DLL-file know which one to use.

Run server.bat and open http://localhost:5000. From there you can start a new game-runner, add the bots you want to compete with, and have them battle it out!

• No multithreading
• No unsafe code / reflection / etc
• Each bots name must be unique and constant.
• Each action the bot performs is limited to a benchmark time
• The total time each bot may use during a game is limited to a benchmark time

Run the program found in the TimeScaler-folder. It will first perform a warmup-step, then check how long it takes to run a benchmark test. It will compare it to a benchmark, which is currently the time it takes to complete the task on my laptop in 1000ms. The program will give you a scaling factor which you can input in Delver.CamelCup.Program.timeScalingFactor to get your local max-compute-time.

• The only thing that matter each game is which player(s) has the most money. The amount doesn't matter; only who wins. Each win gets the bot 1 point.
• Each game is played with 4, 3 and 2 players
• Each round is any combinations of 4, 3 og 2 players playing ~1000 games (+-, limited by available time).
• There will first be preliminary rounds where all combinations of 4 players compete. The bottom half of the bots will be elliminated. Preliminary rounds continue until 4 bots remain.
• The last 4 bots will play 3 total rounds. The bot with the lowest score gets elliminated each round.