[Cs4800] Tips for running local tournaments

[David Richards]

Were you (or anyone else) able to actually run a tournament?  As soon as my tournament started, I got a whole slew of
null pointer exceptions from both the server and clients in places that didn't seem to touch my avatar code directly.

-Dave Richards

On Nov 3, 2011, at 5:59 PM, Dennis Zografos wrote:

> Some tips for getting local SCG tournaments up and running, from my experiences:
> 
> * You might need to install a copy of javacc (in all major repos, including MacPorts)
> 
> * At the "Generate Java files using Demeterf" step, <outputfolder> should be set to `/GenericSCG/gen'
> 
> * The `PlayerMainHSR' class (as referenced in Step 3) does not exist; use `PlayerMainBabyHSR' instead. (`PlayerMainBabyHSR' is no way specific to the Baby avatar; this is just a naming thing)
> 
> * This will be obvious to most, but, the documentation lists a constant "8020" for your avatar port (note: this is a listening/"server" socket, NOT a connect/"client" socket); if you are running multiple avatars locally, you will have to assign different ports to each of them
> 
> --Dennis
> 
> 
> (note: information herein not authorized by course staff)
> 
> (note2: I may conduct a tournament tonight if the official warm-up fails to materialize; details perhaps forthcoming)
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