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This will be super interesting. I think this game makes very much sense as an intermediate frontier on the road to a StarCraft AI. Here are my reasons:

* The playing field is relatively limited, just a little larger than Go. This makes it much more approachable than StarCraft as you will not need a server farm to get started.

* It has a fog of war, so a bot needs to handle uncertainty and have a memory.

* It's controlled through a web API and allows total freedom for the bot implementation by that.

* There are very competitive humans players.

* There is already a very huge dump of replays to train on.

I really hope this will get traction and establish as an ongoing AI competition. Also it will be very interesting, when the first bots will be better than the top humans here.