Google AI challenge 2010: Planet Wars

The Google AI Challenge 2010 was hosted by the Computer Science Club of the University of Waterloo from September to December 2010.
Final rankings were published December 2nd 2010. Congratulations to all participants, especially to the winner Gábor Melis (bocsimacko), and to the contest organizers!

Like for the previous contest, I ran an unofficial TCP server, to aid in testing bots. Here are some statistics:

70 days of uptime
1,131 hours of CPU time of the server process
1,267,439 games played
805 users registered
record of 70 parallel games

You can connect your unmodified bot to this server using tcp.c (for a Windows binary see this forum post).

      gcc -o tcp tcp.c
      ./tcp 72.44.46.68 995 username -p password ./MyBot

This engine will connect to the server over TCP/IP to fetch maps and issue orders. You will be running your bot yourself, and neither your source code nor executable ever leave your machine.
This can be useful for several reasons:

You can print debug messages, write log files, dump cores, run inside a debugger, etc.
You play against opponents stronger than the examples provided with the starter kit.
If your program violates the time limit, you'll see that first hand. Same if your program crashes.
You get more games faster, about one every three minutes.

The server code is open source, too.

Matching of players is based on Elo points, you'll play against the available opponent with the Elo points closest to yours.
Maps are chosen randomly from a pool which consists of all maps from the most recent starter package, plus some new maps suggested in the forums.
Timing rules are slightly relaxed, due to network latency. You're still expected to produce a reply as per the official rules.
Your machine's speed may affect the ranking. If your machine is significantly faster or slower than the official tournament server, consider the effect.

See Bayesian-Elo for details about the ratings below. Output is produced with command sequence: readpgn, mm, advantage 0, exactdist, ratings.
Updated once a minute. This server is run by Daniel Hartmeier (dhartmei), contact daniel@benzedrine.ch if you have questions.

THE SERVER IS NOW SHUT DOWN, THANK YOU FOR PLAYING, AND SEE YOU IN THE NEXT CONTEST!

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