My snake won first place at the https://snake.wits.ai/ competition out of the 350 participants.

My snake is written exclusively in java and uses an improved A* search for pathfinding on a 2 by 2 grid. However, when my snake is trapped it used a specialised version of a BFS to find moves that allow the snake to survive the longest while trapped. In addition there are many other heuristics such as going a certain distance towards the center when not closest to the apple. Looking back on my code now I do see a few lines of messy or unnecessay code such as the PositionScore and PositionDistance class which could have just been a single class, my logging class saves logs to my videos folder (why???) Eventhough my algorithms remain efficient and my strategies sound, I should have put a bit more emphasis on readability for you.