Team ID: bcf56290-bef0-40d0-8812-4e4ced85789b
Team name: The Mikinators
Team members:
- Paul Dawson
- Clayton Flesher
- James Edward Gray II
- Isaac Hall
- Ryan Hoegg
- Ed Livemgood
- Caleb Nordlich
- Miki Rezentes
Our solution is an Elixir implementation compiled into a binary package release.
Strategies are implemented as simple algorithms that either return a move or nil. If a strategy returns nil, the meta-strategy moves on to the next available strategy. Strategies we implemented include:
- Bet on a future 1/3 of the distance of a punter's available moves, then connect it.
- Try to make long connections.
- Grab a random river.
- Try to connect a site along a mine path that you own to the nearest mine.
- Try to connect to a mine you own to the closest mine you don't own.
- Grab a river attached to the mine with the most available spokes.
- Grab a river attached to the mine with the least available spokes.
- Try to connect the source and target you bet on as a future.
We played these strategies in different hierarchy combinations against one another, and then chose the combination that scored the best.