Tic Tac Toe-bots (Final Scores Up!)

[MatthewV]

WHAT!? I DON'T WANT TO BE #3!

[TRS-80 *]

Third sounds good to me.

[lexprod]

Annnnnnnd only one bot actually makes any progress up the leaderboard: TBoNE leaping up to fifth!

Congratulations to D1G1T, and his owner Amb, for taking first place! Thanks to all the entrants for your participation.

A few special awards:

Most balanced:
Dietrich and Toebot 129 for having equal points as X and O

Most aggressive:
#2 and TRS-80 for having 20 more points as X than O

Most defensive:
TBoNE for having 3 more points as O than X

Most average:
Zag-O-Tron for having the score closest to the average (29.181818 etc.)

Best O:
Dietrich for having the most O points, 18

Best X:
D1G1T, TRS-80, and #2 for all having the most X points, 27

I'm-ok-you're-ok:
Not-gonna-win-but-will-mess-with-everyone-elses-strategy-bot for having the most Cat's games, 4

Thanks again to all participants for joining in this unique twist on tictactoe/programming/I don't even know.

[Cordelia]

Amb secretly spent 25 yearsworking on a complex TTT bot called Joshua...you can find a chronicle of his joys and woes here.

[lexprod]

Oh: here's a list of all the players, their bots and the bots' orders.

Lepton
TBoNE:
597823614

Amb
D1G1T:
137248965

Zag
Zag-o-tron 2000:
537964182

ralphmerridew
Not-gonna-win-but-will-mess-with-everyone-elses-strategy-bot:
927354186

Chuck
TRS-80:
564827391

Dented Ford
Toebot 129:
572943816

Quailman
El Diablo:
537419628

dethwing
John Quincy Adding Machine:
519372846

MatthewV
#2:
147958362

Undercover Monk
Francisco Montiqu Zanzibar:
537691428

groza528
Dietrich:
597386142

[Dented Ford]

Hey I didn't lose! And I got a fancy "most balanced" award flag. Yay!
Congrats to Amb, well done. Thanks to lexprod for hosting it.

In case anyone cares, my (ahem) "strategy" was to take the centre spot and then starting from the bottom left corner move around in a "knight's tour" pattern, trusting to luck to hopefully put a blocker in all the lines before the opponent had made a complete row of three. I'm not surprised I didn't come close to winning, but I am a bit bemused by getting as many wins as I did - I thought there would be mainly losses (if unlucky) or draws (if the blocking pattern worked).

[ralphmerridew]

My anti-strategy on not-gonna-win-bot was to make my moves so as to block off lines without making a row. I'm not surprised that I placed poorly overall, or that I got most cat's games, but I am surprised that I did well initially.

Also, my last game is credited as +3/+3.

[groza528]

Well, my "most O" points matches my strategic mindset pretty well. I went into the design with the assumption that it would be much easier to win as X, so the bot that could also win O games would do well. Thus I assumed most players would start with center followed by corners, hoping for a diagonal win, and set out to block that before thinking much about winning myself. Thus my first few placements were set up to block both diagonals in two moves. I also chose 9 for the first of my corners because it seemed the "least random" and therefore unlikely to be an early pick for other players. I expected to win many of many of my games on the bottom or right edge.
My bot did what it was designed to do-- the bots that beat me were typically those designed not to focus on diagonals.

[Quailman]

I thought my BattleBots rip-off name would give me uber-powers, but my order sucked, so, oh well.

[lexprod]

[Amb]

Wahoo!

[Duke Gnome]

Is there a joke behind the name "Dietrich" that I'm missing?

[groza528]

Yes, but I wouldn't expect anybody to get it (because you don't have all the information).

I had recently decided on a name for my car: Marlene

[Zag]