So I had a lot of fun participating in the Google AI Challenge, even though I didn't get to finish my real bot (just a simple tweaked version of the example) due to NaNoWriMo.

Today I checked out the latest Full Circle Magazine (for Ubuntu), and there were a few articles on this new one:

http://www.freiesmagazin.de/third_programming_contest

Is anybody participating in that one? The Google one was exceedingly simple to get into, this one doesn't seem so easy.

Are there any other AI contests like this? It sounds strange but Matlab Central has AI contests twice a year. Those are also fun to watch.

There's yearly Starcraft and a Super Mario AI contests:

http://eis.ucsc.edu/StarCraftAICompetition

http://www.marioai.org/