RobowikiAwards

I think there should be nominations for Robowiki Awards. No actual awards ... just nominations.

I nominate Voidious for the "Most Helpful" award. -- Simonton

• I nominate Kawigi for the "Most Helpful" award, and second Voidious. Is it allowed to nominate one person and second someone else? :)
• Hey I'm really grateful to be nominated, thanks dudes. =) I'd personally have to nominate PEZ for that one. He hasn't been active for a while, so many of you might not know him as well, but he has been a guide to many of us and his most excellent attitude permeates this whole community. From what I've read, Albert was also a very major contributor to getting this wiki rolling in its earliest days, so he probably deserves a nomination too. -- Voidious

I suggest Simonton for the "Most Pattern Matchers" and "Most Memory-Consuming Robot" awards. =) -- AaronR P.S. I'm considering running for the "Vaporware Robot" award with Horizon 1.0.0, which will probably never be released.

• I don't know, Kev's latest WaveSerpent is a really slow memory hog. Much slower than the latest WeeklongObsession. -- Skilgannon
  • Oops, WaveSerpent isn't really a SlowBot, version 1.3b3 was trying to remember 20x as much surfing data as needed due to a bug making it think there were 20 enemies (the code was put there for big melees). Without that, WaveSerpent doesn't seem to be acting any slower than usual, which I think is pretty fast for a top bot. I'm adding a fixed version of WaveSerpent into the rumble now... -- Kev
  • Thank Kev, and nice ranking you're getting with it, btw. -- Skilgannon

Some people (including PEZ) suggested the MeleeStrategy page as the "Best Wiki Page"...inferring Kawigi receiving the "Best Wiki Writer" award... --Starrynte

I'm going to go against convention and nominate myself for the Vaporware Robot Award, for NekoAngel?, Caffeine, Genesis, and Succubus, all of which we're announced, but never released, and are currently in hem "development". I also run for the "Robot Necromancer" award and me resuming "development" on Wolverine. I nominate Kawigi for "The Best Public License", with his KawigiPublicLicense. I nominate Simonton and for the "Most Awesome Optimised Function" award for his non-iterative wall smoothing and wall distance functions. Thats all for now. :) --Chase-san

• Ha! My favorite is the "Best Public License" award :). I nominate Chase for "The Best Robowiki Award". :) -- Simonton
• Shouldn't that be the "Best Robowiki Award Award"? :) And I think Simonton definitely wins "Most Awesome Optimized Function". -- AaronR

Then I am going to nominate Simonton for the "Best Bug Reporter" for Robocode! Btw., you are all doing a great job reporting bugs. But, Simonton seems to catch the "good" ones with a very precise information for how to reproduce them. This is beneficial to all of us! ;-) --Fnl

I nominate Pulsar for "Longest Temporary RR-server owner" -- GrubbmGait

• I second! -- Simonton

I nominate PEZ for "Most Inspiring Robocoder". Without his enthousiasm, insight, OpenSource bots and last but not least: THIS WIKI, this would be a rather empty place. -- GrubbmGait

This is not personal, but I want to nominate Martin Alan Pedersen for "Best Loser". Just the idea of writing a bot that is undefeatable at losing is hilarious :D -- GrubbmGait

• I gladly accept the honor. I just hope you are referring to Moron and not Ugluk. -- Martin

I nomintate SmallDevil for the "Most Battle Worn Robot" award, with a staggering 41099 battles under its belt alone (the next highest was about 28k). --Chase-san

"Best Reference Bot" has to go to Raiko.... -- Skilgannon

• Raiko is definitely one of my favs! Both SandboxDT and CassiusClay rank up there, as well, for both gun and movement. -- Voidious
• Hmm ... does this mean that improving against these bots will most likely mean an overall improvement? Because if so I'll definitely start using them more heavily for testing. -- Simonton
• Well, DT was a common benchmark for so long quite simply because it was a legendary, unstoppable tank. He was a great reference because he was straight up the best. CassiusClay has been a top bot for a long time, it's pretty fast, and its OpenSource nature lends itself to a) plugging its gun or movement onto your tank for RoboRumble tests, and b) learning why it's so darn good. These days, I don't think any one bot can indicate overall improvement, so I dunno. -- Voidious

I nominate Simonton for best CodeSize writer --Starrynte

I nominate myself for MostCompetitiveRobocoderEver... oh wait... Seriously, though. I third the nomination of Voidious for "Most Helpful", and I nominate Iiley, Rozu and Jamougha for the joint triple crown of "Most Talented". Many other people have had 1 strong bot, or a whole bunch of pretty good bots, but those three each had a whole string of top-notch bots, and each was innovative in his own way. --David Alves