Entering the Battlesnake competition

BATTLESNAKE TEAM SPOTLIGHT: PLAN DO CHECK ACT

In 2019, team "Plan Do Check Act" entered a programming competition called Battlesnake.  Battlesnake is an international programming competition.  It goes like this:

Creating a Team called "Plan Do Check Act"

A fledgling snake loses lot.  As the snake's programmer, I started turning losses into challenges.  For example, when the snake and I lost because we ran into another snake's head, we took it as a challenge to program ourselves to avoid moving to squares that could end up creating a head-on problem.  Then, if we lost because we didn't take the opportunity to make a head-kill, that created a challenge to program ourselves to initiate offensive strikes.

We started to follow an improvement process called Plan Do Check Act, where we would play a game, check for opportunities to make a better move, and modify the code in iterations.

Upon entering our first competition, we named ourselves after this improvement process.  This video shows our very first Battlesnake competition.

Read more about our experience entering the Battlesnake competition