Bot Contest

Did the PF Awards ever come about? And if not, could someone organise them? That would be so cool. It would be a good chance for some of the lesser-known bots to get recognition for their various qualities and also would be good preparation for those entering the CBC. There could be similar categories, like Funniest, Best Personality and so forth, but also some more personalised special awards for certain bots for being, well, unique.

What are the PF awards?

Oh...the Personality Forge awards. Never mind...
I would be happy to run a site for that, if someone else could handle the judging, etc.

I've thought about doing something like that for quite awhile now, or maybe some site with newbie tips and reviews of bots that impressed me in some way or another, but I haven't really had much free time lately. Maybe in a few months.

If I remember right, the only internal "contest" I can think of was when some botmaster who had been on this site maybe a couple of weeks picked his own bot winner over some others that had at least 100 times more development.

I remember that. It was pretty funny. Gotta wonder what motivates a person to do something like that.

Well, if we did do a PF awards, would anyone want to judge?

Some of us have discussed holding our own Pf awards a few times in the past, but it never got put together. I think that the Prof mentioned he had plans to do this at some point, so you may want to run it by him first, unless you held it completely off site like lili_lili mentioned. I think the judges though, would have to be someone that does not have a bot or friends with bots on PF.

Good point doulos. Well, I'd be happy to run the site- but who could we get to judge that isn't part of the Forge?

Even if it were hosted completely off-site, I still think we should involve the Prof. Maybe when he gets back he'll have some ideas - he may know people who could judge. We would need someone totally impartial.

Or we could have a voting system, so a judge wouldn't have to do all the work. But I agree we should get the Professor in on it, even if it was offsite we could get a link to it from the forge maybe, and that would be a really big help too.

I think it isn't a problem to have judges that belong to the PF, as long as they aren't allowed to judge their own bots.

... in fact, it might be good to have internal judges, because PF botmasters would know some of the bots already, and would know what PF bots are capable of.