This code allows you to run a local tournament ranking bots you provide by the Trueskill or ELO ranking algorithm (somewhat similar to the current Kaggle leaderboard ranking system)
Ensure you have NodeJS version 12.x or above installed
To run the tournament, fork this repo or clone it to your computer, and first install the Dimensions package
npm install dimensions-ai
then run
node run.js
to see a live display of a leaderboard of 4 bots. The sample bots used here for demonstration are the swarm bot by Yegor Biryukov: https://www.kaggle.com/yegorbiryukov/halite-swarm-intelligence, the getting started bot provided by Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/alexisbcook/getting-started-with-halite, and a bot that does nothing called stillbot.
To add more bots, add them to the list in run.js at line 48. Note that you have to pass in paths to a file (so you can't use the Kaggle given random bot, you will have to copy it over yourself)
To use ELO ranking instead of trueskill (the default), change line 60 in run.js to Tournament.RANK_SYSTEM.ELO
This will also automatically generate log files that record all output to standard error only. To turn this off, change line 65 in run.js to false.
You can also configure how the tournament runs by editing the configs in line 71 in tournamentConfigs
maxConcurrentMatches is the number of matches the tournament will simutaneously run. Try not to set this way above the number of cores you have or you may run into timeout issues.
maxTotalMatches is the total number of matches the tournament will allow itself to run before shutting down.
endDate is the date in which to end the tournament. You can give the tournament a set lifespan. This takes in a javascript Date object, see the comment for an example
By default, some of these options are commented out, just uncomment them and change them as you like!
By default, the API to retrieve such data is turned off. To turn it on, change observe and activateStation to true at lines 38 and 39. This will serve an API at localhost:9000. See https://github.com/StoneT2000/Dimensions/wiki/Dimensions-Station-API for a description of how to use the API. Through the API, you can retrieve rankings, start and stop a tournament and more.
At the moment, run.js sets the IDs as follows
dimensionID: h4, tournamentID: h4ladder
So a request in the shape of /api/dimensions/:dimensionID/tournament/:tournamentID/ranks becomes /api/dimensions/h4/tournament/h4ladder/ranks
The file run.sh has the script that is used to run the matches in the tournament
Unfortunately, Windows doesn't work, you will need WSL