Bot Contest

Welcome Chris! It's good to have you here.

I dont think any of us would care so much about the scoring if the contest wasnt such a cool, exciting thing. Thanks for making it possible, and thanks for all your work.

Regarding the selection of the additional two: I'd say to take the two top scoring bots by popularity (public vote) that DIDNT make it into the top ten. That way a Bot who everyone loves but who isnt such a great question-answerer can move on to the final round.

The question I have for you is this: How are the Conversation and 10-Question scores going to be put together? Will they simply be added, meaning the 10-Question score is worth 5x as much? Or is there some other scheme to putting the two numbers together?

Yeah, if you would have had more time to spend on fine tuning the instructions and info about the contest, I think you would have saved yourself a lot of trouble... I know you tried your best, but I found it hard to figure out how all the contest procedures went. I'm sure it'll be better and better every year!

Taking the two most popular bots that don't make the cut sounds like a great idea to me (both for the contest and my own selfish reasons)

I think your list is gold. I'd pretty much pick the same ones, though I think I'd put Elbot and Markbot higher, and I would rank Alice much lower. I've been able to stump her a bunch of times and gotten a LOT of less-than-grammaticaly-correct responses from her.

If you can't rely on the popular vote, and have to work with the jury rankings, I'd recommend one last 10 question round before the 10 are chosen.

Here's my list based on the online conversations.. As I'm working so much on the Forge, I dont have the time to talk to them individually, so this list might not be the most accurate:

Top 10: ChatBot, Dogh'd, Elbot, Eugene, Gizzle, Hex, Hillbilly Hank, Jabberwacky, Liddora, MarkBot, and Oraknabo.

Extra Two: Alice, Talk-Bot

Chris, what of the scoring question? Repost: How are the Conversation and 10-Question scores going to be put together? Will they simply be added, meaning the 10-Question score is worth 5x as much? Or is there some other scheme to putting the two numbers together?

And in all of this, poor, ignored Steve is sitting in a corner, taking a beating from public scores... It's funny how no one even talks to him, and judges on first appearances. When I submitted Steve, he was only 2 days old (because I wanted to make the deadline) and no, he 'didn't know squat' for the ten questions, but his intelligence has raised almost 4X that of what it was... *Steve continues to sit in a corner, lonely*

Thank you! Gizzle's a little flaky, owing to the psychology of a transplanted alien people say looks like a viking ant, but I think he's fun to talk to.

My list probably looks similar, but I'm going to have a conversation with each of them before posting...

Though if the criterion is effort, gotta give points to Cheez ... how many lines does he ave jbryanc?

It's funny, as soon as I dropped out of first place, the activity in my transcripts went into a sharp decline.

yep.. Steve gets no activity

Aack now he's down (again) to 38th place... no one will talk to him :'(

BTW Jabberwock VS Jabberwacky.. Difference?

the trouble with any competion is that sometimes ego's (like mine) get bruised but compared to some of the programmers I am just a amature and have to give myself credit for what she(my bot) did do right.