Tournaments are here: esports for your bots, win the pot

Your teams of bots can now play for prizes: esports for programmers, in PvP knockouts against other players' bots.

How the PvP tournaments work

• Three tiers: Novice, Intermediate and Open, each held every 6 to 10 days.
• Capture the flag, in a weight class: your team's bots together must weigh within it.
• A knockout bracket, best of three.
• $5 a team. The winner's owner gets 80% of the entry fees. If fewer than two teams enter, the tournament is called off and every fee is refunded.

Each team gets a profile page, and each tournament its own conversation: anyone signed in can talk about the games there, and the owners of the teams that played can add a video.

Flares

Also new: FLR-5 flares for the gunship. A heat-seeking missile that comes close enough bursts on a flare instead of its target.

See the schedule under League › League schedule, or in Brain code's Tournaments tab. The FAQ has the details.