Spring 2015 Bot!Battle! Tournament Results

The Spring 2015 Penn State Harrisburg Bot!Battle! Tournament was held on May 1, 2015.  Twenty seven people developed bots, and 23 bots were entered into the tournament.  The tournament consisted of two rounds.   In the first round, each bot played every other bot twice, once as player 1 and once as player 2.  The top 8 teams from the first round then advanced to a single elimination tournament which determined the first, second, and third place finishers.

Here were the results after the first round:

Place	Bot Name	Bot Creator	Record
1 (tie)	Bob	Tamara Epelbaum	30-16
1 (tie)	SiddiqueBot	Taha Siddique	30-16
1 (tie)	WilfordBot	Joshua Wilford	30-16
4	PavoncelloBot	Joshua Pavoncello	29-17
5	DuddingBot	Nathan Dudding	27-9
6 (tie)	LoBot	Wei Hsien Lo	26-10
6 (tie)	Enma	Jack Lee McFann	26-10
8 (tie)	NguyenBot	Ngan Nguyen	25-11
8 (tie)	SingletonBot	Thomas Singleton	25-11

There was a play-in match between the Nguyen Bot and the SingletonBot to determine the last seed in the second round.  SingletonBot won this match 2 games to zero.

In the second round, each match consisted of six games, in which each bot played as player 1 three times.  If there was a tie after the six games, additional rounds consisting of a pair of games would be played (with each bot playing as player 1 and player 2) until the tie was broken.

In the single elimination tournament round of 8, LoBot prevailed in a match over Bob by a score of 5 games to 3.  PavoncelloBot prevailed over DuddingBob 5 to 1, SiddiqueBot prevailed over Enma 4 games to 2, and WilfordBot beat SingletonBot 4 games to 2.

In the round of 4, PavoncelloBot beat LoBot 5 to 1, and SiddiqueBot beat WilfordBot 5 games to 3.

For the third place game, after numerous tie breakers, WilfordBot prevailed over LoBot 7 games to 5.

In the championship game, PavoncelloBot continued its roll, beating SiddiqueBot by a score of 4 games to 2.

The top three finishers, who won prizes based on their bots, were:

First Place:  Joshua Pavoncello

Second Place:  Taha Siddique

Third Place:  Joshua Wilford

The bracket for the second round is below:

Congratulations to everyone who participated!  A special thanks to Austin Barket, Steven Erb, and Randall Hudson for their work in creating the Bot!Battle! arena.