2014 Competition Results

The AIBIRDS 2014 Champion is Team DataLab Birds from the Czech Technical University in Prague!

Congratulations to the winners who participated for the first time this year.

The runner up is team Angry BER from the University of Ioannina in Greece, also a new participant. The third prize winner was team PlanA+ from Sejong University in South Korea, who already participated last year. Congratulations to both of them! 

This years agents were much better than last year, it is quite amazing how much progress has been made. The unmodified winner from last year did not even qualify for the quarter finals. 

The qualification day was already very exciting, but this was easily topped by the first quarter final. While the DataLab Birds were well ahead of the other three teams, those three were within 6000 points. In the last second Angry BER solved another level and moved team Impact Vector to third place. Drama at its finest. 

The second quarter final was a clearer descision, with the two  teams PlanA+ and IHSEV clearly ahead of the other two teams. The semi final was again very dramatic. Angry BER and PlanA+ were within 60 points ahead on the leaderboard when the DataLab Birds solved a level shortly before the time was over and moved in the lead. Shortly after, it was over and PlanA+ was third prize winner with the tiniest possible margin. Interestingly, they solved 4 levels, while Angry BER solved only 3 levels. 

The grand final was a relatively clear decision. DataLab Birds moved ahead after a short time and never appeared in danger of losing it. They managed to solve 6 out of the 8 levels. Given the increased difficulty of the levels, with the most difficult ones in the grand final, this was an impressive achievement.

Here are the scores of the different rounds: 

Results after Q2

 

 

Quarter Final 1

 

 

1. DataLab Birds

423280

 

1. DataLab Birds

346260

2. PlanA+

372810

 

2. Angry BER

224860

3. s-Birds Avengers

361770*

 

3. Impact Vactor

173710

4. Angry Dragons

317300

 

4. s-birds Avengers

167860

(5. Naïve

302710)

 

6. Impact Vactor

298390

 

7. Angry-Hex

294170

 

Quarter Final 2

 

8. IHSEV

292380

 

9. Angry BER

253820

 

1. PlanA+

360920

10. BeauRivage

238080

 

2. IHSEV

277530

11. RMIT Redbacks

188890

 

3. Angry-HEX

129610

12. Auto Lilienthal 

0*

 

4. Angry Dragons

78970

 

Semi Final

 

Grand Final

 

 

1. DataLab Birds

232790

 

1. DataLab Birds

406340

2. Angry BER

206680

 

2. Angry BER

243880

3. PlanA+

206620

 

4. IHSEV

93100

 

 

*Note: Teams s-birds Avengers and Auto Lilienthal had a problem with their agents in the qualification rounds and we could not run them with our server. All 6 teams who were present made an unanimous decision that we will run these two teams separately once they fixed the problem with their server connection. At the end of the qualification rounds, team AngryBER was on 8th place and qualified. Since the s-birds Avengers fixed their problem and managed to get a qualifying score afterwards, we decided to withdraw the Naive Agent instead.