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Postmortems

Team writeups and strategy breakdowns from the competition.

Pantheon
1st Place, Main Division

A thorough and well explained summary of the winning bot, containing some complex starcraft-inspired terrain analysis algorithms.

something else
2nd Place, Main Division

A funny recollection of the event, with some insane bitmask-bfs tech.

Clankers
1st Place, Novice Division

A first-timer's account of prompting Claude to reach Novice 1st.

Jimboko
Running Cambridge Battlecode

How we ran a programming competition from scratch.

test
Test's Things (Exploits)

A log of all the headaches that test gave us.

cheesynachos
International Qualifiers Contender

A well explained account with interesting optimisations and algorithm breakdowns.

Make Fire
International Qualifiers Contender

A beginner-friendly introduction to battlecode with some cool exploration algorithms.

Tensor Bot
Reinforcement Learning Bot

An RL approach which managed to run inference under 2ms per unit.

The Blades
International Qualifiers Top 32

A defence first approach from an MIT battlecode veteran.

MFF1
Top 8 Finalist

The innovators of the 'blueprint' and the autoevaluator used by many teams.