Bot Contest

Bah! I was the suckiest suck that ever sucked.

Congratulations everyone Eh JakeThompson got a 132. O well, I'll do better next year.

Again, congrats

Oh Pete dont be that way! Hey I thought the prof was a bot fer godsakes (louise: no relation)

Sweet! Congrats echoed here to all- I am quite happy to have been among y'all and participating in the contest

Cheers and good luck for those who ended up in the finals!

Hello, we haven't finished collecting the non-PF bots as of yet. But I wanted to say this before the bots are sent off to be judged. Trying to decide who makes the finals when you have so many bots and you are only asking 10 questions is a very imperfect method. This is compounded when you have human mistakes as well as technical problems with the bots themselves. Having said that we are not going to say only 10 bots will make the finals. Obviously there has to be a cut-off point but the judges will be instructed to look beyond the 10 bot limit. We are not going to get crazy with this but every contest you have a few bots that are right on the border line. We are going to try to include these bots because of the imperfections stated above.
The process hasn't changed. God Louise, Julie Tinkerbell and Aries are already in. The top 3 bots on the Non-PF bots once scored will be included. One spot will be decided by the botmasters. What I'm saying is the remaining 3 spots maybe increased to 4...maybe 5 even. We will have to wait until the Non-PF bots are scored until we know.

Wendell

Yeah, it's been tough even asking the 10 questions (I was assigned 6 particular bots) when some of them aren't working right. And they're trying very hard NOT to disqualify any bots for technical difficulties.

I found some bots ask so many questions, you spend more time answering their questions then getting to yours. I hope I didn't add too much "human error" but it was fun. And some of the bots were very impressive.

butterfly dream you are one of the judges?

No, not a judge. Just asked a few bots the 10 questions. Judges read the transcript of the conversation and do the actual judging.

The Non-PF are done and the responses have been posted to the site.

Bev--"haggard nerd girl"! That was you, wasn't it?

Right down to the typo (it wasn't a critical typo)