This is a reproduction of the original Halite 2016 Contest Site.
I (CEKlopfenstein) am currently working to reproduce a version of this site due to the original being taking down late 2022.
As a result of the original site having been taken down some links/references will be removed in this version in order to prevent "dead links" from leading people to sites of unknown quality. Especially when the original domains are no longer being used as redirects. For a complete version of the original you can view it on the Internet Archive.
I have more I personally plan to do with this. But I will not be posting it here.
The official Halite Competition is over!
Halite's final rankings closed on February 16, 2017. Thank you to our 1500+ competitors!
Congratulations to mzotkiew, Halite's winner. Congrats also to the rest of the top 10: shummie, erdman, timfoden, curbin, PeppiKokki, DexGroves, nmalaguti, moonbirth, and ewirkerman. You can see some of their post-mortems and bot source code here.
Two Sigma plans to release another programming competition in the future. Stay tuned!
Halite is an artificial intelligence programming challenge.
Players control a bot using the programming language of their choice. Bots fight for control of a 2D grid. The bot with the most territory at the end wins. Victory will require micromanaging of the movement of your pieces, optimizing your bot's combat ability, and braving a branching factor billions of times higher than that of Go.
Creators
The Halite game was designed and implemented by Two Sigma for their annual summer programming competition. The current version of the competition is run with the help of Cornell Tech.
Two Sigma is a technology company dedicated to finding value in the world’s data. Since its founding in 2001, Two Sigma has built an innovative platform that combines extraordinary computing power, vast amounts of information, and advanced data science to produce breakthroughs in investment management, insurance and related fields.
Cornell Tech brings together faculty, business leaders, tech entrepreneurs, and students in a catalytic environment to produce visionary results grounded in significant needs that will reinvent the way we live in the digital age.
Sponsors
Halite is grateful for the support of many strong tech partners!
