The Newbie Tournaments are intended to allow new players to compete with each other without the demoralizing effect of losing to the best sides over and over. They are open to players who have not yet had a side place in the top ten or so of the regular tournaments.
(10 September 2007) This time the tournament was actually scheduled in advance, and we got five new sides. 222 rounds:
| Rank | Side | Author | Score | Survival | Early death | Late death | Early score | Fraction | Kills |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flower 2 | Tilendor | 43.2% | 83% | 7% | 10% | 15.1% | 51% | 22% |
| 2 | Solar->Gatherer->Killer | Ids Braam | 33.1% | 87% | 3% | 11% | 12.8% | 37% | 38% |
| 3 | MicroAlgae | Tilendor | 16.0% | 63% | 5% | 34% | 11.5% | 25% | 0% |
| 4 | StatSpawn | mcmadhatter | 6.4% | 63% | 1% | 37% | 12.4% | 9% | 24% |
| 5 | Mangeurs | Szeety | 6.1% | 34% | 18% | 58% | 12.0% | 18% | 0% |
| 6 | Simple 1 | James Austin | 6.0% | 43% | 7% | 54% | 14.6% | 14% | 0% |
| 7 | Nova | Tyson & Ryan | 5.8% | 46% | 24% | 40% | 9.5% | 11% | 11% |
| 8 | T2-base-based | mcmadhatter | 1.2% | 39% | 8% | 58% | 7.8% | 3% | 14% |
| 9 | Smarter Eater | Analog Kid | 0.7% | 27% | 9% | 70% | 8.9% | 3% | 0% |
| 10 | My Algae | Analog Kid | 0.4% | 9% | 43% | 84% | 7.5% | 5% | 0% |
| 11 | Diagonal Explorer | Marcos Coelho Marín | 0.1% | 9% | 9% | 90% | 5.7% | 1% | 6% |
| 12 | mini-eaters | Ids Braam | 0.0% | 7% | 9% | 92% | 2.3% | 1% | 2% |
| Overall: | 43% | 12% | 52% | ||||||
Two notes on tournament rules. First, some sides include a good deal of modified code from the tutorial. I think this is okay, because it's hard to build anything out of parts without understanding the parts well enough to write them yourself. In any case the useful parts of the tutorial are not very exotic - an experienced player can recreate them from memory.
Second, I removed Alexander's sides, because his Shield + Cowards is in the Top Nine. If you prefer to leave his other sides in, the results are (also 222 rounds):
| Rank | Side | Author | Score | Survival | Early death | Late death | Early score | Fraction | Kills |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forest Fighters | Alexander | 41.6% | 76% | 1% | 23% | 20.2% | 55% | 41% |
| 2 | Solar->Gatherer->Killer | Ids Braam | 31.9% | 61% | 16% | 27% | 12.8% | 50% | 23% |
| 3 | Flower 2 | Tilendor | 24.7% | 46% | 29% | 36% | 12.9% | 49% | 15% |
| 4 | Bomberz | Alexander | 20.5% | 84% | 7% | 10% | 13.4% | 24% | 19% |
| 5 | MicroAlgae | Tilendor | 9.5% | 33% | 23% | 56% | 10.6% | 29% | 0% |
| 6 | StatSpawn | mcmadhatter | 9.0% | 56% | 9% | 38% | 11.4% | 16% | 19% |
| 7 | Nova | Tyson & Ryan | 5.4% | 29% | 45% | 48% | 8.6% | 17% | 7% |
| 8 | Dark Forest [0.2] | Alexander | 4.8% | 45% | 13% | 48% | 9.2% | 10% | 12% |
| 9 | Mangeurs | Szeety | 4.5% | 17% | 32% | 75% | 10.4% | 26% | 0% |
| 10 | Simple 1 | James Austin | 3.9% | 24% | 27% | 67% | 12.9% | 16% | 0% |
| 11 | Flaming Forest | Alexander | 3.1% | 36% | 10% | 60% | 9.6% | 8% | 12% |
| 12 | My Algae | Analog Kid | 1.3% | 8% | 51% | 84% | 9.4% | 17% | 0% |
| 13 | T2-base-based | mcmadhatter | 0.8% | 24% | 28% | 67% | 6.1% | 3% | 8% |
| 14 | Smarter Eater | Analog Kid | 0.4% | 19% | 26% | 75% | 6.5% | 2% | 0% |
| 15 | mini-eaters | Ids Braam | 0.1% | 9% | 14% | 90% | 2.4% | 1% | 2% |
| 16 | Diagonal Explorer | Marcos Coelho Marín | 0.0% | 4% | 25% | 94% | 3.7% | 0% | 3% |
| Overall: | 36% | 22% | 54% | ||||||
I think I prefer removing sides, because it creates more turnover. If we didn't remove sides when the author (not the side) graduated to the main tournament, sides like Forest Fighters would accumulate. They might not be good enough for the top ten, but they're good enough to intimidate beginners. That's what the Newbie Tournaments are supposed to avoid.
(23 July 2006) Added five sides by Alexander. Removed Move Zig! because it's now champion, and the filler sides (Lunatic, Sunflower, and Neorabbit) because we have more than ten newbie sides now. Forest Fighters kills most everything, which makes the tournament run much faster. (230 rounds.)
| Rank | Side | Author | Score | Survival | Death rate | Early Score | Fraction | Kills | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Early | Late | ||||||||
| 1 | Forest Fighters | Alexander | 40% | 85% | 1% | 15% | 20.8% | 47% | 43% |
| 2 | Shield + Cowards 2f | Alexander | 25% | 79% | 16% | 6% | 11.0% | 32% | 11% |
| 3 | Bomberz | Alexander | 19% | 88% | 10% | 3% | 11.6% | 22% | 25% |
| 4 | Flower 2 | Tilendor | 15% | 31% | 27% | 58% | 12.6% | 41% | 12% |
| 5 | Microalgae | Tilendor | 7.0% | 22% | 23% | 71% | 11.0% | 31% | 0% |
| 8 | Nova | Tilendor & Ryan | 5.0% | 24% | 36% | 62% | 8.9% | 18% | 6% |
| 6 | Dark Forest | Alexander | 4.1% | 39% | 20% | 52% | 8.0% | 10% | 11% |
| 7 | Simple 1 | James Austin | 3.0% | 16% | 31% | 77% | 10.8% | 19% | 0% |
| 9 | Flaming Forest | Alexander | 1.3% | 25% | 16% | 70% | 7.9% | 5% | 9% |
| 10 | My Algae | Anthony Kozar | 0.8% | 6.9% | 59% | 83% | 7.5% | 12% | 0% |
| 11 | Smarter Eater | Anthony Kozar | 0.3% | 9.7% | 24% | 87% | 6.8% | 4% | 0% |
| 12 | Diagonal Explorer | Marcos Coelho Marín | 0.0% | 4.0% | 27% | 94% | 3.4% | 1% | 3% |
| Overall: | 36% | 24% | 53% | ||||||
(13 June 2006) I added Flower 2 and Move Zig!. Both are much better armed than the previous batch of sides.
| Rank | Side | Author | Score | Survival | Early Score | Kills | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Move Zig! | ziggystar | 38% | 96% | 8.2% | 50% | Good fighters. Slow growth. |
| 2 | Flower 2 | Tilendor | 33% | 76% | 11.5% | 32% | Pretty and tough, but sometimes self-destructs. |
| 3 | Microalgae | Tilendor | 18% | 79% | 10.3% | 0% | Hard to kill off. |
| 4 | Flower | Tilendor | 9.0% | 51% | 8.1% | 15% | Doing better with fewer tiny gatherers consuming missiles. |
| 5 | Simple 1 | James Austin | 8.3% | 65% | 16.2% | 0% | Good growth. Needs a weapon. |
| 6 | NeoRabbit | Devon | 3.6% | 66% | 15.7% | 0% | |
| 7 | Sunflower | Matt Burkholder | 3.4% | 38% | 6.6% | 7% | |
| 8 | Lunatic 2 | Devon | 2.5% | 37% | 6.0% | 0% | |
| 9 | My Algae | Anthony Kozar | 1.7% | 19% | 11.2% | 0% | Destroys itself. |
| 10 | Nova | Tilendor & Ryan | 1.5% | 14% | 8.0% | 9% | Serious friendly fire problem. |
| 11 | Smarter Eater | Anthony Kozar | 0.7% | 39% | 10.0% | 0% | |
| 12 | Diagonal Explorer | Marcos Coelho Marín | 0.1% | 24% | 8.2% | 5% | Grows early, but starves later. Buggy fighters. |
| Overall: | 50% | Only 105 rounds, because they're still a bit slow. Error <= 5.1%. | |||||
(15 March 2006) The release of the Windows version brought a bunch of new users (okay, two of them). There are now enough users who have never won a tournament that Tilendor organized a tournament for them. There are seven sides from four and a half authors, plus three old sides to pad the roster to ten.
Because none of these sides are well-armed, the population increases greatly and slows down the simulation. Therefore no one has run enough rounds to have reliable results. The scores given here are based on only 20 rounds. Survival was nearly 100%, except for My Algae.
| Rank | Side | Author | Score | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microalgae | Tilendor | 37% | Skittish algae. |
| 2 | Simple 1 | James Austin | 28% | |
| 3 | My Algae | Anthony Kozar | 16% | Destroys itself. |
| NeoRabbit | Devon | 8% | ||
| Smarter Eater | Anthony Kozar | < 3% | ||
| Diagonal Explorer | Marcos Coelho Marín | Buggy. | ||
| Flower | Tilendor | |||
| Nova | Tilendor & Ryan | Buggy. | ||
| Sunflower | Matt Burkholder | |||
| Lunatic 2 | Devon |
Newbies: send in more sides, and updated versions of these, so we can continue this tournament!
Grobots by Devon Schudy and Warren Schudy