Qualifying Round

Information Links

• How to make your registration and submit your program.
• Game and Qualifying Round Rules
• Hardware environment used in the Qualifying Rounds
• Software environment used in the Qualifying Rounds
• Technical Information: Various technical information for contestants (to be updated regularly).

Schedule

• Announcement of the draft version of the Game Rule: Sep 28, 2020
• Announcement of the final version of the Game Rule: Dec 7, 2020
• Submission deadline for the qualifying round: Jan. 25 Feb. 1, 2021 (AoE)
• Result announcement: Feb. 8 15 13, 2021

Submission for Qualifying Round

Please make a registration and submit your program at EasyChair following the instructions in the Entry page.

Practice Round

We will hold Practice Rounds that provide opportunities for competing with other participants before Qualifying Round. Note that participating the Practice Rounds is NOT mandatory for entry to the contest.

We will offer two chances for participating in Practice Rounds:

• 1st Practice Round
  • Submission Deadline: Dec 28, 2020 (AoE)
  • Expected date for result announcement: Jan 1, 2021
  • (Last update: Jan 7 11:59am JST) Result.
• 2nd Practice Round
  • Submission Deadline: Jan 12, 2021 (AoE)
  • Expected date for result announcement: Jan 16, 2021
  • (Jan 14) Result.

To participate in Practice Rounds, submit your program following the steps for submitting the program for the Prelminary Round before the deadline for each Practice Round.

Each Practice Round will be held following the Qualifying Round Rules and its results of each Practice Round will be announced as the same format as in the Qualifying Round of the contest of the last year except that "Team name" and "Young?" columns will not be disclosed. (Submission Numbers assigned by EasyChair will be used as "Team ID" so that each contestant can identify their own results.)

Submission Trial Page

Submission Trial Page is now available. You can check whether the submission file works on the match-up server to be used for Preliminary (Qualifying), Final, and Practice Rounds. In order to use this system, you need first to make a registration following the instructions here. Check the post on Nov 24 at Technical Information for details.

Announcement of the resutls

We will announce not only the results (win/lose) of the matches but also logs of the games on the result announcements of Qualifying and Final Rounds. See also the contest of the last year. We will announce the results in the same format.

Result of Qualifying Round

By conducting the Qualifying (Preliminary) Round, the following 16 teams have been selected for advancing to the World final among 22 submissions. Congratulations to all winners! The IPSJ office will contact the winners by email about program submission for Final Round and delivery of your certificate of merit.

We also thank all the teams including those who cannot advance to the Final Round for their submissions to SamurAI Coding 2020-21.

Click here for detailed information about Final Round.

Notice: We found a bug in the game manager (a bug for invalid play plans). We used the updated version for the games in the Qualifying Round to correctly apply the game rules. Thank you for your understanding.