House4Hack (a hackerspace) in Randburg (
http://www.house4hack.co.za/about for directions) is having regular meetups on Wednesday and currently lot of discussion and interest in this challenge. We have a playoff server up in dev and hopefully soon live so you can watch online and pitch your bot against others.
We have had playoffs (
http://www.house4hack.co.za/first-tron-bot-play-off) the previous two weeks and the next one is scheduled for coming Wednesday the 8th.
Everyone is welcome to stop by from 18:00 onwards.
In case there is some confusion, we have Randburg and Centurion chapters, but most of the action on the bots currently at H4H Randburg