Opposition Research - C1Ryan do not read

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Well, after all his talk about adaptive algos, @RegularRyan’s current top algo on the global leaderboard is a direct clone of the static SawtoothV2:
https://terminal.c1games.com/watch/757080

{
	"id": 757080,
	"turns": 33,
	"round": null,
	"winning_algo": {
		"id": 32220,
		"name": "UMICH-Special",
		"compilationStatus": "Completed",
		"lastGameAt": "2018-11-02T14:53:03.132Z",
		"elo": 1770,
		"language": null,
		"createdAt": "2018-11-01T15:54:46.715Z",
		"crashCount": 0,
		"user": "C1Ryan"
	},

It would seem he’s trying to figure out how to beat the current state of the meta too!

Sarcasm aside, since only a user’s top algo gets shown on the leaderboard there’s a decent chance the performance of UMICH-Special will cover up whatever he’s cooking up for the competition. But if someone happens to notice a match against C1Ryan in their play history, we could discover some of his other algo ids :wink:

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Oops

I uploaded this to test play-by-hand vs sawtooth to save me 20 minutes of cloning it myself lol. I promise not to use it for the C1Ryan competition. I might take one of your algos instead >:)

(Just kidding ofc, i’ll actually be playing to win)

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Just take all of our best algos and dump them into some sort of reinforcement-learning-statistical-regression-genetic-selection monstrosity and upload the resulting Frankenstein’s Algo :rofl:

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Haha, this is literally something I have started working on :laughing:.

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Hello n-sanders, how do you get this information? Is there a way to let your algo collect this?

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There’s a public API for getting leaderboard information:
https://terminal.c1games.com/api/game/leaderboard?page=1

And I crawled that with a script looking for C1Ryan’s name which got me the id of his top algo.

I used that to get the match history from this public endpoint:
https://terminal.c1games.com/api/game/algo/{algo-id}/matches

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Same here and I got quite horrified when I calculated the size of the state-action space haha: Lots of work to do :rofl:

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Well, C1Ryan has employed a new tactic and put up his algo named “starter-algo-ZIPME 2” :smiley:

It isn’t what I would consider “adaptive”: https://terminal.c1games.com/watch/845190 (he’s player 1).

Edit: the linked match is the only one he’s won on the global competition so far (it’s record is 1-8).
This is his highest elo algo at 1407 at the time of this posting.

I’m starting to think he’s just messing with us here …

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C1Ryan rewards the guy who beats his competing algo with 100,-. If he just deploys the starter algo that will be the most underwelming waste of prize money I’ve ever seen. Because of that I think he genuinly has a strat. However, I don’t know how much testing he got out of it not playing much on the ladder. Doing that requires a lot of free time to think the game mechanics through. Admitedly this is his job, so maybe he pulls of a devastating algo, who knows.

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He could technically be playing against all our algos without putting his on the ladder, since he has access to the servers. He at least has all the special bosses.

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He mentioned the maze algo he put up was just so he could test by hand in the playground, so I imagine he’s been doing a lot of local testing offline.

I’m looking forward to seeing what he’s cooked up!

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He could also just be fixing the starter algo… I made a thread yesterday about a bug, and he responded in another about another issue.

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I uploaded Starter_algo to production as a sanity check to make sure it was still working after making some changes (I fixed the issue @Ryan_Draves is referring too, and a few other minor ones).

I also will be pulling algos and playing against them, but I am pretty familiar with most of the strategies in the game from casting tournaments and watching all the matches that end up on the forum, and I think I have a really strong ‘core premise’ for my strategy, so we will see how it does going in relatively blind.

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I’m not sure that was his (maybe?) but that’s my bot in blue that I just uploaded.