YEAH - second in fM contest

As I announced I took place in a programming contest organized by freiesMagazin. In the end I’m proud to tell you I’m second!

I still explained my tactics and my map parsing and all in all five other programmers joined this contest. Today the editorial staffs announced the results:

You see I wasn’t able to obtain half of the points of Demel and Keiblinger, looking to the results for each game there was no chance for my bot to beat them. But nevertheless I won the second rank! I couldn’t find any contact information of these guys so I wasn’t able to congratulate personally but if they read this article: Nice work guys ;-) Of course congratulations to the other programmers, even if you didn’t win, taking place is what counts!

By the way the organizer informed me about an IndexOutOfBoundsException in de.binfalse.martin.fmcontest.map.DMap.dirTo(DMap.java:192) , so that my bot quit working 17 times. But I won’t update my code since it has no sence beyond this contest… It’s just to inform you.

Last but not least my thanks goes to the freiesMagazin itself. It was a very nice contest and I’m really happy about the voucher! I still have a good idea what to buy :-P

P.S.: Since both programmers on the first rank should split their voucher of 50 €, they both won a voucher of 25 €. That means with a voucher of 30 € I won the biggest value ;-)