[ZoFreX]

> If the judges were at a competitive level, colour me impressed - but if it was their first time, or even their first week, I'm a little more skeptical.

There's a pretty broad area between those two extremes - I'm nowhere near competitive level, but I played (very casually, mainly with friends rather than online) a few hours a week for years, and I definitely understand the game well and can identify good and bad plays, and humans and bots.

I do thoroughly agree, though, that this is nowhere near the level of a true Turing test - but I thought it was still quite interesting!

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Aside: I think these days with the rise of game spectating and commentary and analysis of matches, more and more non-competitive players are gaining deeper understanding of games they like even if they couldn't necessarily pull it all off themselves.

For a more modern game like Starcraft II for example I think you could find a very large number of non-competitive players that could reliably identify bots from humans.