Team ID: bcf56290-bef0-40d0-8812-4e4ced85789b

Team name: The Mikinators

Team members:

• Paul Dawson
• Clayton Flesher
• James Edward Gray II
• Isaac Hall
• Ryan Hoegg
• Ed Livemgood
• Caleb Nordlich
• Miki Rezentes

Our solution is an Elixir implementation compiled into a binary package release.

Strategies are implemented as simple algorithms that either return a move or nil. If a strategy returns nil, the meta-strategy moves on to the next available strategy. Strategies we implemented include:

• Bet on a future 1/3 of the distance of a punter's available moves, then connect it.
• Try to make long connections.
• Grab a random river.
• Try to connect a site along a mine path that you own to the nearest mine.
• Try to connect to a mine you own to the closest mine you don't own.
• Grab a river attached to the mine with the most available spokes.
• Grab a river attached to the mine with the least available spokes.
• Try to connect the source and target you bet on as a future.

We played these strategies in different hierarchy combinations against one another, and then chose the combination that scored the best.