[appleeaters]Results

The results are in! :eek:

An Excel file of the results can be found at:

http://www.zackcoburn.com/contests/robots/results.xls

From the Excel file, I made the following list:

1. Thierry Le Floch
2. Tyler Akins
3. Michael Thompson
4. Chris Kennelly
5. Ngiam Jiquan
6. Dimitris Giannitsaros
7. Marc Hoeger
8. Jeremy Echols
9. Jeff Caughel
10. Kevin Bowman
11. Mark Roy
12. Kószó József
13. Daniel Frett
14. Ben Hague
15. Mario Sansone
16. Adam Stevenson
17. Erik Bernhardsson
18. Ciprian Cana
19. Atanas Kovachev
20. Tom Lawton
21. Christian Arellano


If you're interested (or want to complain about how your script would have outperformed the rest given better conditions ), the judging was run on a Dell 4100 with a 700MHz Pentium III processor and 128 MB of RAM, running Red Hat Linux 8 (actually, it was running a pirated copy of Microsoft Windows XP Professional, LinOnWin, and Microsoft PHP Enabler 98). The judge script was written in Perl. It will not be released to the public, but I might consider selling it on eBay. I understand that writing a judge script for a PHP contest in Perl is considered treasonous in some countries. If you would like to speak with my lawyer, his name is Daniel Webster (I couldn't afford Mark Geragos).

You have until Friday to file a class action lawsuit against Codewalkers. After that, the results are final (pending Matt's approval). I suggest that you check my list, in case I made any mistakes when obtaining names from comments.

Congratulations to Thierry and all other winners!

My two entries positioned in reverse order: my good script at pos.21 and my bad script at pos.6! That was weird! But anyway this competition was fun!

Zack, can we please have the 100 generated maps used for the judging?

...but i'm wondering why our scripts could produce so many timeouts?
even appleeater and robotavoider: 97 timeouts???
did i understand something wrong in the exel-file?

I think it is clear that the best scripts (timeouts-wise) had 13 timeouts. Which is a lot. That's why i want to see the generated maps... large maps with few robots could explain that.

I'll put the maps online soon. The apple eater and the robot avoider didn't have internal timing mechanisms.

My script (17) got 10th place, but it's only behind 3 other people. Does this mean I got 4th?

joe

nevermind. i was sorting by average score instead of total score. i didn't realize that average didn't take timeouts into account. blast!

well, i have the 11th script in 5th now. maybe i'll get a prize .

ok, i need to get an account so i can edit posts and stop spamming threads . in any case, i did get 4th. not sure how i pulled that one off since i can't even sort columns in excel correctly.

77 scripts and only 21 code writer ??? Matt, please don't allow multiple entries for the next contests. I don't think that the goal of a coding contest is to send a mass of entries with only different parameters. 16 entries of the same person ????? Crazy !!

I have sent my script and received a confirmation mail from Matt (or Zack!?), but my name don't appear in results list. What's happened to my script? My e-mail: <email removed>. I'm from Brazil and don't speak english, so sorry for the horrible errors!

I don't see your mail, or any response from myself. Could you forward me the response I sent you to <email removed>?

Did you send it from another email? What is your name?

Agreed

Out of curiosity, what version of PHP was used?

I used PHP 4.2.2.

Joe Elliott (the anonymous poster) is confirmed as 'No Name' and holds fourth place.