[eslifka]

The standard starcraft AI was always pretty pathetic, even after Blizzard's attempts to make it more challenging. My guess is that in the subset competitions (1 - 3) the sc AI would get whipped, if it could even be coerced into competing. (I don't think it could even do the micromanaging competition, I think the units would just sit there until they were attacked. And even then it would be the standard unit ai responding instead of the overall ai. It might fair a little better in the tech limited tournament.) I think the limited scope of those tournaments will allow the submitted bots to be highly optimized. It might fare better in the overall competition though, since both sides will be dealing with the full complexity of the game. But I still think that by the tournament the submitted bots will be highly superior to the built in ai.

[tibbon]

Wasn't part of the Warcraft and Starcraft bot's technique that they cheated effectively and often knew things that a player couldn't have known (and executed on things that a player couldn't have?) in order to stand any chance at winning?