Basil

So, in the almost 8 years (insane!) it was running, BASIL had few hiccups. Recently it failed hard and was down for a few days. First: It’s back up again, but the rabbit whole was deep. The Game Server The first few years the machine running the games had issues with the network drivers (Linux). It first started loosing the connection then either hang or Kernel-panicking. A workaround was to restart it regularly. Mind you: this strategy is used by professional business software as well — I’m in good company. ...

If you haven’t yet, check out BASIL. It’s a 24/7 Starcraft league, but for bots! It usually runs fine nowadays. But sometimes an external hiccup occurs. One of those is the problem of detecting who to blame if a game times out. It works fine if the game ends with the in-game timeout of 60min, since the Tournament Module BASIL uses will make both bots leave and select the winner based on the score (That might be unfair, but that’s a topic for another post). ...