{"id":104737,"date":"2016-09-21T11:51:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=104737"},"modified":"2016-09-21T11:52:05","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T09:52:05","slug":"entelect-challenge-top-8-finalists-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/104737-entelect-challenge-top-8-finalists-announced","title":{"rendered":"Entelect Challenge Top 8 finalists announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Entelect Challenge\u00a0tests the creativity and programming skills of contestants by requiring them to write creative and efficient AI programs that can outsmart and overcome their opponents.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday 17 September 2016, entrants went head to head in the Entelect Challenge playoff at The Venue Greenpark, where eight bots came out on top.<\/p>\n<p>These finalists will have their bots battling it out for the top spot and cash prizes on Saturday <strong>8 October 2016<\/strong> on the main stage at rAge at <strong>11:00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Top 8 finalists are listed below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Charl van Niekerk<\/li>\n<li>Christian Reeve<\/li>\n<li>Faruk Can Kaya<\/li>\n<li>Ralf Kistner<\/li>\n<li>Rethabile Mokoena<\/li>\n<li>Riaan Nel<\/li>\n<li>Thinus Potgieter<\/li>\n<li>Willie Theron<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The theme of the 2016 challenge is centred around the classic 1980&#8217;s strategy maze-based game, Bomberman.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple players will be abandoned in a maze arena\u00a0and have to\u00a0outlast their opponents to be the last one standing.<\/p>\n<p>Prize money will be awarded to the top eight performing bots competing in the AI Challenge, with the top three getting <strong>R70\u00a0000<\/strong>, <strong>R35\u00a0000<\/strong> and <strong>R25\u00a0000<\/strong> respectively.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This insane high-end gamepad will change the way you play\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/104105-this-insane-high-end-gamepad-will-change-the-way-you-play.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This insane high-end gamepad will change the way you play<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This Limited Edition Witcher 3 statue is unbelievably expensive\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/104715-this-limited-edition-witcher-3-statue-is-unbelievably-expensive.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This Limited Edition Witcher 3 statue is unbelievably expensive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Insanely expensive gaming PC hardware\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/104461-insanely-expensive-gaming-pc-hardware.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Insanely expensive gaming PC hardware<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eight finalists for the Entelect Challenge 2016 have been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":104741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8585],"tags":[15623,31,22055,5767,1699],"class_list":["post-104737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-gadgets","tag-15623","tag-active","tag-challenge","tag-entelect","tag-rage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}