Keep up to date with developments on the 2009 2K BotPrize http://botprize.org Complete results will be posted soon, but here is a summary of the results ... 9 September 2009 http://botprize.org/result.html Preparations are frenetic with one week to the finals. The final bots are being trained, the judging panel is selected, and the trophies have been made (by Perth sculptor Peter Reynolds). The winners' trophy is about 60cm tall, and the judges' one slightly shorter. The colour is "vampires' blood". 1 September 2009 http://botprize.org The 5 finalists for the 2009 BotPrize contest have been decided. 9 July 2009 http://botprize.org/teams.html The 2009 BotPrize contest will take place in Milan, Italy, in September, 2009. 28 March 2009 http://botprize.org You can have a try at being a judge yourself. 31 January 2009 http://botprize.org/quiz.html Videos of all 25 finals matches are now available. 31 December 2008 http://botprize.org/result.html The 2008 2K BotPrize contest has been run and the results are in. Although none of the competitors was able to fool the 4 out of 5 judges needed to take the major prize, several did succeed in fooling 2 out of 5. 18 December 2008 http://botprize.org/result.html With just a week to go before the finals, the judging panel has been assembled. 10 December 2008 http://botprize.org/teams.html The selection trials have been completed and the finalists have now been announced. Six teams are in the final, from Australia, USA, the Czech Republic, Scotland, Singapore and Japan. 13 November 2008 http://botprize.org/teams.html The first stage in the creation of the Botprize trophy is completed. Here are some video clips of the creation process, in the glass studio at ECU. 10 November 2008 http://botprize.org/trophy.html 2K have generously agreed to increase their sponsorship of the event by providing $500 for a specially commissioned trophy. The trophy will be designed and created by Edith Cowan University sculptor Peter Reynolds. It will be a high-tech creation in glass, in a similar style to the trophies he produces for the Margaret River Film Festival. 27 October 2008 The way new weapons are handled has been modified, so as not to cause problems for programmers using Pogamut. The FAQ has been updated. http://botprize.org/FAQ.html 16 October 2008 Registration is now open for the CIG conference. Note that the early registration deadline is 7 November. Bot Prize entrants must email contact@botprize.org before 1 November. http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/cig08/registration.html 15 October 2008 After much discussion, we have now provided general information about the nature of the mods. See the new answer in the FAQ. http://botprize.org/FAQ.html 8 October 2008 How will the judging be done? The rules have been clarified. See "Testing protocol". http://botprize.org/rules.html 2 October 2008 On 31.08.2008, version 1058 of Gamebots was released. This is the version Bot Prize will use. https://artemis.ms.mff.cuni.cz/pogamut/tiki-index.php?page=Gamebots+user+documentation People keep asking this question! An answer is now provided in the FAQ list. http://botprize.org/FAQ.html At the Computational Intelligence and Games Workshop at PPSN (Parallel Problem Solving from Nature) http://ppsn2008.org/ in Dortmund there will be a CI BotShop, on September 13, featuring the Bot Prize platform. http://dces.essex.ac.uk/staff/lucas/ppsn/cigworkshop.html#CI_BotShop