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This sounds exciting, and I'm sure I'm not the only one in thinking that coding an AI for a race car bot is at least as interesting as the final prize.

Will the server be open-sourced later ? I think it would be awesome to be able build a bot at home.

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If you want an open sourced car racing game server, you can always use TORCS [1] and SCR [2].

[1] http://torcs.sourceforge.net/

[2] http://scr.geccocompetitions.com/

During the competition the server code is not released. There are going to be game servers where developers can connect and test their bots.

We haven't discussed about what happens after the race. Lets see :)

Yeah, I understand you don't release the code during the competition so as to not make it too easy for competitors :)

I think building such a bot can be a very interesting exercise at AI and realtime programmation, which is why I'm interested in the potential educational aspects of it.

I'll keep an eye on it !

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