First Stage Completed
Dear WCCI-2008 Car Racers,
The first stage of WCCI-2008 car racing competition is now completed. This first step involved 3 tracks and 8 controllers. The three tracks selected for testing the controllers are Ruddskogen, Street-1, and D-Speedway. Five controllers were provided by the participants and they are the actual competitors in the race. Other three controllers were provided as examples by the organizers: one was evolved by Luigi Cardamone, a student of the Politecnico di Milano, one by Julian Togelius, and one from Daniele Loiacono.
For each of the three selected tracks, we run each controller ten times. The performance has been computed as the median (the 50th percentile) over the ten runs to avoid any issue about skewness.
For each track, we sorted the performances and we used the F1 scoring system to assign a score to each controller (10 points to the 1st, 8 points to the 2nd, 6 points to the 3rd and 5/4/3/2/1 points to the other ones).
The score of a controller is computed the sum of the points that the controller received on the three tracks. The scoreboard of this first phase is reported below.
Note that this scoreboard does not decide the winner. The winner will be decided by a set of ten races involving all the five controllers which will be run tomorrow.
We wish to thank you all for participating to the competition. Stay tuned for the final scoreboard!
Meanwhile, we look forward to meet you at the workshop where movies will be shown and the results of the competition involving also the other three controllers will be shown.
Daniele, Julian, & Pier Luca