Edit: I realize I didn’t understand your question, as I didn’t connect your remark about 300-200 with lsusr’s statement at the top of the post. You’re confused about why CliqueZviBot won in the previous game, while I am about why it is still winning.
When a pair of clones face each other, one wins the tiebreaker on even rounds and the other on odd rounds. So yes, no bot should be able to consistently win this.
My comment before the edit:
I’m confused too, but I notice that in the previous game CliqueZviBot was not ahead on round 1. So it’s not the same scenario happening twice.
The cause can’t be the tiebreaker: the winner only gains the advantage of starting with 3-2, but then it alternates. Since the turn total is even, both bots score 250.
The simplest explanation is just random chance. If we assume a high chance of uneven scoring for clones on early rounds due to some meeting Silly 0 bots and the like more often than others, then there’s a 1⁄8 chance that the same bot gets on top in both games, which is not too unlikely.
My confusion is that I don’t think the explanation in this post really resolves why CliqueZviBot outscored the clique bot average (multiplicatively) in every round last time out. This should only happen 1210=11024 times for a given bot or 1128 times given 8 bots.
To be fair this is only me reading it off the graphs so I could be wrong with this exact analysis but I do think CliqueZviBot was a very strong and consistent outlier and that this explanation doesn’t resolve my confusion as to why.
Edit: I realize I didn’t understand your question, as I didn’t connect your remark about 300-200 with lsusr’s statement at the top of the post. You’re confused about why CliqueZviBot won in the previous game, while I am about why it is still winning.
When a pair of clones face each other, one wins the tiebreaker on even rounds and the other on odd rounds. So yes, no bot should be able to consistently win this.
My comment before the edit:
My confusion is that I don’t think the explanation in this post really resolves why CliqueZviBot outscored the clique bot average (multiplicatively) in every round last time out. This should only happen 1210=11024 times for a given bot or 1128 times given 8 bots.
To be fair this is only me reading it off the graphs so I could be wrong with this exact analysis but I do think CliqueZviBot was a very strong and consistent outlier and that this explanation doesn’t resolve my confusion as to why.