StarCraft: Brood War: StarCraft AI Competition in 2010

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By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields

Nov 15, 2009 23:19

The Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a StarCraft competition at AIIDE 2010 featuring a number of tournaments and matches with skilled human players.

Newly crowned WCG champion Jae Dong 'Jaedong' Lee may appear to play like a bot at times with his mind-blowing mutalisk micro, and even jokingly referred to one of his weaker opponents at the WCG as being like playing an AI, but it appears someone actually wants to see Artificial Intelligence competing within StarCraft.

The Expressive Intelligence Studio at UC Santa Cruz will be hosting a StarCraft competition at AIIDE 2010:

"The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2010) will be hosting a StarCraft AI competition as part of the conference program. This competition enables academic researchers to evaluate their AI systems in a robust commercial RTS environment.

The competition will be held in the weeks leading up to the conference. The final matches will be held live at the conference with commentary. Exhibition matches will also be held between skilled human players and the top performing bots."

There will be four tournaments for the bots to compete in based on the different elements of StarCraft competition. These will be:

"Tournament 1: Micro-management

Tournament 2: Small-scale combat

Tournament 3: Tech-limited Game

Tournament 4: Complete Game"

Fans of StarCraft will no doubt be interested to discover who the "skilled human players" referenced are. On the poster for the competition a photograph of elite level player Taek Yong 'Bisu' Kim (3 MSL titles) is included so whether that is simply used for art purposes or to hint at real pro gamers being used remains to be seen.