SSCAIT
The SSCAIT, or Student StarCraft AI Tournament, has been held since 2011. It was founded at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, together with the Czech Technical University in Prague. Together with AIIDE and CIG/CoG it is one of the three big AI tournaments for Brood War AI. Games are played and streamed all the time, and the finals take place in winter. An edition is named after the year it starts: the SSCAIT 2014 bracket, for example, was played in January and February 2015.
Organization
The first edition in 2011 had 50 bots, divided into 10 groups of 5, and the top 16 advanced to a double-elimination bracket. Roman Danielis won. Later editions have two divisions:
- Student division: a round robin. Only individual students can score points and win prizes (or certificates).
- Mixed division: an elimination bracket of the best bots, 8 at first and 16 from 2015, including non-students and teams.
The tournament is open to the public: any individual or group can take part, but special rules apply to students. It has been the biggest Brood War AI tournament in the world, with between 42 and 78 participants per edition.
History
| Edition | Participants | Student division winner | Mixed division winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSCAIT 2011 | 50 | Roman Danielis (single competition; runner-up Michal Piovarci) | — |
| SSCAIT 2012 | 52 | Matej Istenik | ICEBot (Wang Zhe et al.) |
| SSCAIT 2013 | over 50 | Tomas Vajda (XIMP) | Krasi0bot |
| SSCAIT 2014 | 42 | Martin Rooijackers (LetaBot) | LetaBot |
| SSCAIT 2015 | 46 | Martin Rooijackers | — |
| SSCAIT 2016 | 45 | Martin Rooijackers (LetaBot) | — |
| SSCAIT 2017 | 78 | WuliBot | CherryPi |
| SSCAIT 2018 | 72 | — (best student bot: CUBOT) | PurpleWave |
| SSCAIT 2019 | 45 | — | PurpleWave |
| SSCAIT 2020 | 56 | — | Stardust |
Mixed-division brackets for 2015 and 2016 are not shown as text on the official pages. Bot pages list SSCAIT results under the tournament's year of start.
External links
- Official SSCAIT site, with the page of each edition. SSCAIT 2021/22 is documented on Liquipedia.