What is "mechmania"

MechMania is an annual programming contest hosted by the ACM chapter at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is part of the annual Reflections Projections Conference at UIUC. Teams compete by writing an AI for a game (the type of which varies from year to year). After a day of coding and debugging, teams compete in an elimination tournament shown on a wall-sized projection screen.