The entry period for the AI Challenge has closed, and they’re doing the final games. I really haven’t updated my bot in two weeks or so. I had some more ideas to do and optimizations, but I never got around to it. In the end, it looks like I’ll be the 2^nd place Clojure bot as one of the other that was more actively developed took a giant leap above me. I’ll be happy to try again next year.

My bot is doing surprisingly well. It is currently the highest rated Clojure bot, and is ranked a little below 850^th out of ~5700. I’m a hair under the 15^th percentile.

My bot has played two more games, and legitimately won both. But while I was thinking last night I came up with a bad realization: since my bot runs from enemy ants, it would run away from protecting the hills. This could allow a single ant to capture a hill that had lots of ants around it.

This hasn’t happened yet. I’d better put a fix in before it does.