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Game schedule:
M. Deveckavs.Tomas Cere
Tomas Cerevs.Ibrahim Awwal
F. Richouxvs.M. Bartnicki
Wang Zhevs.A. Sternmuller
Recent Achievements:
19.05. 14:35Let's Rock achievement for Dave Churchill.
18.05. 17:36Winning Streak 3 achievement for Florian Richoux.
News:
9. MayWinners of last year's SSCAI 2012, together with commented replays of the finals and semifinals and some photos can now be found here.
9. MayOne of our participants, Dave Churchill, talked about StarCraft AI research and BWAPI at Day[9].TV forums. Go check it out.
26. AprAfter two long years, we have finally created a Twitter account (about time, right?). Follow us at twitter.com/sscaitournament.
1. AprToday is a BGH Day! Since it's April the 1st, all the games will be played on The Big Game Hunters map. Enjoy the unlimited resources and imbalanced map. gl hf!
28. MarSome of the achievements were not working, so we've made a few bugfixes. They will be unlocked after the next victory. Also, we've changed the "win rate" computation function to only consider the results from last 4 days.
26. MarIf you have a lot of free time and like programming game AI, you can check out the Pogamut Cup 2013. It's a competition of UT 2004 bots (the page is in Czech language though).
11. MarThe web and stream server will probably be down for a few hours this week for the maintenance. Don't panic!
9. FebSSCAI 2013 has started. User account management is still not completely finished, but you CAN already register your bot and watch it play.
6. FebNew JNIBWAPI Starter Pack and Map Pack for SSCAI 2013 was just published. Feel free to download and use them.
6. FebOld discussion forums and email subscriptions have been disabled, and communication has moved to Facebook. So please join the BWAPI group on FB to stay informed.
5. FebWe're starting the streams in test mode. There will probably be many changes before the official launch date. However, you can already register and upload your bot. If you can't log in, just email us please.
28. JanProfile portraits can now be unlocked! You need a certain number of achievements in order to earn each portrait. See the list here.
25. JanWe're working hard to bring you a completely new bot upload system. Your new versions will no longer need to be manually uploaded and tested.

What is SSCAI?

Student StarCraft AI Tournament is an educational event, first held in 2011 at the Comenius University. It serves as a challenging competitive environment mainly for students of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. They are submitting the bots programmed in C++ or Java using BWAPI to play 1v1 StarCraft matches.