Training matches identified as Automated Match Making

[dsjoerg]

http://ggtracker.com/matches/1767921

>>> summary = sc2reader.load_game_summary("http://xx.depot.battle.net:1119/a1936a846c19bbec4a37217e731dbf2b71aff04c1d5d9ec423dd592809485074.s2gs")

>>> summary.settings
{'Game Mode': 'Automated Match Making', 'Lobby Delay': '10', 'Locked Alliances': 'Yes', 'Premade Game': 'Yes', 'Teams': '1 v 1', 'Rules': 'Default', 'Game Speed': 'Normal'}

[dsjoerg]

I bring this up mostly because this issue, if explored, might uncover some additional source of information that would be useful. It's not an urgent problem for GGTracker right now.

[GraylinKim]

Game mode appears to be the only attribute that addresses the "what kind of game was it" question. The only known values for it are:

      "Game Mode", 
      {
        "": "Single Player", 
        "Amm": "Ladder", 
        "Priv": "Private", 
        "Pub": "Public"
      }

It is possible this information might be stuffed into the replay.details (unlikely) or replay.initData files.

[dsjoerg]

This issue is about an s2gs file, not a replay file. I opened this issue in case it inspired you to find extra sources of information to distinguish between true Ladder matches and training matches. I suspect that lobby/player information will make it clear -- battlenet id of 0, probably.

[GraylinKim]

To be clear though, this issue of determining what mode the game was played in is also an issue for replay files. Correct?

[dsjoerg]

Correct.

[GraylinKim]

I don't believe that this is stored anywhere in current replays and s2gs files. We can adjust the replay.is_ladder flag to be false when AI players are present. It still doesn't distinguish between Ranked and Unranked ladder but it is better than nothing.

[GraylinKim]

I am putting this issue on indefinite hold awaiting resolution of Blizzard/s2protocol#14.