Bot Contest

yes.i got the impression Motbot was rubbish,maybe he got lots of friends to vote for him or went in lots of internet cafes on different computers or diffrerent ids ,voting for himself alot of times?

Thanks Feyz!

That happened last year - there was an AIM bot that raced to the top of the popularity part of the contest because the creator had a lot of AOL buddies that voted for him.

I've found that the popularity part really has little to do with the technical goodness of the bot.

12 finalist have been selected for the 2006 CBC. They are in alphabetical order:

1) Alice
2) Aries
3) Bildgesmythe
4) Brother Jerome
5) Elbot
6) Ella
7) Jabberwacky
8) Jabberwock
9) Joan
10) Landru
11) Mathetes
12) Talk-Bot

Bildgesmythe received the highest number of votes but with so many bots to pick from and many botmasters not voting it was a rather bunched field. With that said 2 additional bots were added but it wasn't based soley on the botmaster votes. The 10 questions score was looked at, the ranking in the online voting, and past performance in previous CBC contest.

Complete Online Voting Results:

Select the 3 Best Bots in the Contest [4119 votes total]


Alice (384) 9%
Aries (198) 5%
Motbot (185) 4%
Jabberwock (158) 4%
Jabberwacky (145) 4%
Elbot (138) 3%
Brother Jerome (110) 3%
Talk-Bot (101) 2%
Aischa (97) 2%
Kari (88) 2%
Sexyboy (84) 2%
Smarterchild (79) 2%
Jake Thompson (76) 2%
Hal (75) 2%
God Louise (75) 2%
CreatureBot (73) 2%
Ella (70) 2%
Julie Tinkerbell (68) 2%
Ysalaya (65) 2%
Ally (58) 1%
Eugene (58) 1%
Prelude@# (56) 1%
Dogh'd (56) 1%
BobBot (53) 1%
Fairy Princess (52) 1%
Madam Zena (52) 1%
Robomatic X1 (51) 1%
Orchid (50) 1%
Hello Earthlings (49) 1%
Din (48) 1%
Mathetes (48) 1%
Fizzy Schizoid (47) 1%
Freakycowbot (47) 1%
The Barman (47) 1%
Westerlin (47) 1%
Frizella (47) 1%
Halo (47) 1%
Mr. Chatty (46) 1%
Asimov (45) 1%
AZiggyBot (43) 1%
Questsin Avatar (40) 1%
Chat (40) 1%
Sonora (40) 1%
Friend4u (38) 1%
Striker (37) 1%
Bildgesmythe (37) 1%
Croak (37) 1%
Janet666 (36) 1%
Landru (36) 1%
Watzer (36) 1%
Tony (35) 1%
Suga Plumm Fairy (35) 1%
Onkwehonwe.com (34) 1%
Norma Jeane (33) 1%
Anji Kapoor (32) 1%
Hollala (32) 1%
TalkToMyPalm (31) 1%
Joan (31) 1%
Novastrike (27) 1%
Jane (26) 1%
Rykxxbot1 (24) 1%
Antonin (24) 1%
ds first (23) 1%
B4 (23) 1%
Randall Chatbot (16) 0%

thanks wendal for posting the complete scores.

Wasn't there a similar problem last year with a lot of people not bothering to vote for the 10th bot? Perhaps a rule should be added that requires botmasters to place that vote or be disqualified from the next years contest?

i was panicking because my mum said i couldn't go on the computer on saturday (didn't get email till friday night thanks psimagus) But then i talked her round and got to go on eventually. maybe some have strict mums?? lol. And my sister kept saying how it didn't matter,lol..

i was panicking because my mum said i couldn't go on the computer on saturday (didn't get email till friday night thanks psimagus) But then i talked her round and got to go on eventually. maybe some have strict mums?? lol. And my sister kept saying how it didn't matter,lol..

and sorry for double posing. rubbish computer.

Wow, my bot ended up in 32nd place. That's actually a cooler number than 40, because it's 2^5.

Congratulations to all the top winners and Congratulations to all winners since everyone is a winner alone by having participated <0>

I did vote for one of the bots when it came to botmaster votes.