Yes, they’ve had access to the template from the get-go, and I believe a lot of people built their bots on the template. I guess it doesn’t surprise me that much. Just another case of KISS.
That said, pgodzinai did layer quite a lot of things, albeit in under 40 hours, and did remarkably well, peer score-wise (compared to his bot peers). And no one did any fine-tuning afaik, which plausibly could improve performance.
As for faster/cheaper way to test the bots: we’re working on something to address this!
Yes, they’ve had access to the template from the get-go, and I believe a lot of people built their bots on the template. I guess it doesn’t surprise me that much. Just another case of KISS.
That said, pgodzinai did layer quite a lot of things, albeit in under 40 hours, and did remarkably well, peer score-wise (compared to his bot peers). And no one did any fine-tuning afaik, which plausibly could improve performance.
As for faster/cheaper way to test the bots: we’re working on something to address this!