AI

[e][h] ICEBot

Author(s):

?

Affiliation:

Ritsumeikan University

Country:

Japan

Race:

Terran

BWAPI version:

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Links

Website ICCup Profile

ICEBot is a StarCraft AI, written by ICELabs, or Intelligent Computer Entertainment Laboratory, at the Ritsumeikan University, Shiga, Japan. A team project of an explicitly AI sub-faculty, it is a well-rounded Brood War AI.

Facts

• Possesses strong environmental adaptation skills.
• Is one of the few spell-using AIs
• Is the only known bot that uses Nukes.

Strategies

General

ICEBot tries to establish the location of the natural choke point, build defenses there with a Barracks, Bunker and a Supply depot. After teching up to Vultures on 2 bases it will move out, mine the map, and after that push with Tanks and Vultures. In the late game, Battlecruisers and Science Vessels augment the Tank pushes.

Specific

Can attack multiple targets simultaneously.

Drops Vultures and Goliaths in the enemy main Mineral Line.

Can use nuke, Defensive Matrix.

Achievements

In Tournaments
Date	Place	Event	Result		Winnings
2013-04-14	A11st	SSCAIT2012	1 : 0	M-Bartnicki
2014-03-22	A22nd	SSCAIT2013	0 : 1	krasi0bot

Research

http://eldar.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/dashlock/CIG2013/papers/paper_87.pdf http://www.ice.ci.ritsumei.ac.jp/~ruck/PAP/gcce13-tung.pdf