Redcoders Frenzy

The Smart-Switching Round

Organiser: Christian Schmidt

Rules:

This round you have to construct a p-warrior from given components (Cloner II, CLP and Frontwards). However there are some restrictions:

There must be exactly one copy of each of the three components in your warrior.
It is not allowed to modify these components in any way, except the assigned instruction (stp.ab #0, #0) where the values of the a- and b- fields can be modified during the battle.
It is only allowed to start the components at its assigned instruction (Cloner II: SRC; CLP:slDodger and Frontwards:boot).
It is not allowed to launch more than one component during the same battle.
The p-switcher does not contain any kind of offensive properties and does not create a decoy.
PIN is disallowed

Each entry will fight each other entry in a 2000 rounds fight. There will be no self-fights.
The scoring is one point for a win and no points for tie or loss. Standard '94 rules using the same parameters as the '94 draft hill but with -r 2000.

Hints:

1. Scoring of the components:

Cloner II wins ~95% against CLP
CLP wins (and brainwash!!!) ~95% against Frontwards
Frontwards wins ~95% against Cloner II

ClonerII ties against Cloner II
CLP ties against CLP
Frontwards win/lose ~50% against Frontwards

2. Some remarks concerning strategies:

An important part is for shure finding a good switching strategy. For a 2000 Rounds battle a very smart switcher could be more succesfull than a basic switcher.
Keep in mind, that the use of Frontwards is quite risky, because it will be brainwashed by CLP.
CLP's brainwash (stp.ab #0, #0) can be tuned during the battle to find opponents weak point.
A brainwash-detection could take advantage of CLP's brainwash.
CLP's brainwash could be also used to fox an opponents brainwash-detection ;-)

Yes, there are a lot of possible Strategies, Counter-Strategies, Counter-Counter-Strategies, etc. ;-)

Please notify: You have to send for this round your entries to fizmo_master@yahoo.com

Good luck :-)

The Results:

#	Won	Lost	Tied	Name	Author	Score	%
1	62	24	14	P-Key	German Labarga	14792	100.0
2	45	29	26	DoubleTrouble	Roy van Rijn	10734	72.6
3	43	36	20	R7 2003	Michal Janeczek	10409	70.4
4	42	38	20	Smart Switcher?	John Metcalf	10113	68.4
5	41	36	23	Predictable	Simon Duff	9776	66.1
6	40	38	22	Dr.Jekyll	Sascha Zapf	9559	64.6
7	39	35	25	Mr.Hide	Sascha Zapf	9471	64.0
8	37	39	24	simple switching	Simon Wainwright	8805	59.5
9	36	45	19	SoLT and Pepper	Roy van Rijn	8757	59.2
10	36	32	32	Wretched Climate	John Metcalf	8602	58.2
11	31	37	31	freedom	Simon Wainwright	7542	51.0
12	27	51	23	PointA3a	Lukasz Adamowski	6367	43.0
13	20	57	23	PointA3b	Lukasz Adamowski	4891	33.1