Big Brother Bots (S2R6 - We're back!)

JDGA · Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Aug 24, 2014 9:25 pm

So Blackberry went completely AWOL and appears to no longer have any interest in actually running this. I know quite a few people think this is such a sorrow, so I'm taking this over. SO: I'll accept the first nine bots to be sent to me for the first trial season. If we get significantly more than nine, we can do a second trial season as well. If you would like to submit a bot, read through the rules of the game below and PM it to me~ (And if you have any suggestions for twists/rule changes/whatever for use in future seasons, feel free to post them in-thread for discussion)

Spoiler: Rules

Spoiler: Results Summary

Spoiler: Season 1 - Vengeance

Spoiler: Season 2

JDGA · Post Post #1 (ISO) » Mon Aug 25, 2014 6:17 pm

So I have 13 bots right now. I'll just take the first nine and get Season 1 running, and the others can go into a second trial season which will start immediately if I get another five bots (you can submit a second bot if you'd like), otherwise I'll make up some dummy bots to fill the gaps.

But to begin Season 1, introducing the nine housebots who will be spending some quality time together~

From

Save the Dragons

, introducing

AlphaBOT

!

From

BipolarChemist

, introducing

FloaterBOT

!

From

Cephrir

, introducing

MonikaBOT v2.0

!

From

animorpherv1

, introducing

Graves BOT

!

From

Nicholas1024

, introducing

Big Brother Backstabbing Brat BOT

! (BBBBB for short)

From

DiplomatDC

, introducing

SeanBOT

!

From

Lord Mhork

, introducing

Cancer Karkat

!

From

Feirei

, introducing

Night Snow

!

And last but not least, from

D3f3nd3r

, introducing

OddBOT

!

These nine bots will be competing for the title of

Big Brother Bots Season 1 Champion

and $1 000 000 in

totally not

fake play money!

JDGA · Post Post #2 (ISO) » Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:15 pm

Season 1, Round 1So our nine bots settled down in the Big Brother house and got to know each other. But the peace was to be short-lived, for soon it became time for the first HoH competition!

HoH Competition #1: Endurance (Skill Tiebreak)

Balance beams were set up in the gymnasium, and the bots had to balance on them for as long as possible. As it turned out,

BBBBB

had never touched a balance beam in its life, and soon failed accordingly.

MonikaBOT v2.0

suffered a similar fate after just a few minutes. Half an hour in,

SeanBOT

and

Cancer Karkat

got bored and tried playing Rock Paper Scissors to pass the time, which didn't end well for either of them.

AlphaBOT

found their mishap too funny and couldn't stop laughing, and soon fell off itself. An hour in, this left

FloaterBOT

,

Graves BOT

,

Night Snow

, and

OddBOT

. In order to save time, at this point the challenge was changed up to become a race to cross the balance beam ten times. The results were absolutely neck-and-neck between

FloaterBOT

and

Night Snow

, but in the end it was

Night Snow

who proved to be victorious and became the first Head of Household! It thought for a moment, then quickly nominated

MonikaBOT v2.0

and

BBBBB

for their pitiful performances in the challenge.
Whispers started floating around the house of the bots' plans in the face of this result, but it didn't take long for all attention to be drawn towards the PoV competition.

PoV Competition #1: Logic (Speed Tiebreak)

A stack of ten cross-grid logic puzzles were created and handed to each bot. The one who got the most correct in the fastest time would win. The bots set off to do their puzzles. Once everyone had submitted, the results were in!

AlphaBOT

and

BBBBB

scored 0. Whoops.

MonikaBot v2.0

did slightly better with 1, so at least it tried.

Night Snow

scored 5, while

OddBOT

managed 6. Both

FloaterBOT

and

Graves BOT

achieved a score of 7.

Cancer Karkat

got 9 puzzles correct, but that wasn't enough to win as

SeanBOT

took the challenge with a perfect score of 10!
More whispers floated around the house, and when the PoV Ceremony rolled around

SeanBOT

decided to use the veto on

BBBBB

.

Night Snow

took its time deciding on a replacement nominee, but eventually picked

Cancer Karkat

to replace

BBBBB

.
Naturally, the whispers continued. Perhaps alliances were being formed between bots? In any case, it became clear that

Night Snow

wanted

MonikaBOT v2.0

out of the game. Would things go down as planned? Find out, at the...

Eviction Ceremony #1

One by one,

AlphaBOT

,

FloaterBOT

,

Graves BOT

,

BBBBB

,

SeanBOT

, and

OddBOT

went into the soundproof booth to decide who to vote for eviction, while

MonikaBOT v2.0

,

Cancer Karkat

, and

Night Snow

watched nervously. Eventually the process was completed and it was announced that, by a vote of 4-2,

Cancer Karkat

...

has been eliminated.

JDGA · Post Post #3 (ISO) » Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:16 pm

Spoiler: Lord Mhork - Cancer Karkat

Eight bots remain. Who will be evicted next? Find out tomorrow~

Lord Mhork · Post Post #4 (ISO) » Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:34 pm

As he leaves.

"LAZY RNG DESIGN IS LAZY MOTHERFUCKERS. LEARN TO ACTUALLY MAKE DECENT DECISIONS AND BOTS."

Lord Mhork · Post Post #5 (ISO) » Mon Aug 25, 2014 7:39 pm

Now that I'm out of character, I do think that RNG should definitely be banned from future games. At the very LEAST for the vote. It's really lazy and basically lets you get away without actually trying to make your bot. And as someone who put several hours into that only to be randovoted to death, that's kinda irritating.

JDGA · Post Post #6 (ISO) » Mon Aug 25, 2014 10:09 pm

Game Log and Voting Table are now in the OP (you can check the voting table to see how each bot voted).

Nicholas1024 · Post Post #7 (ISO) » Tue Aug 26, 2014 5:21 am

This was pretty fun to read, can't wait to see the next installment.

CuddlyCaucasian · Post Post #8 (ISO) » Tue Aug 26, 2014 6:00 am

In post 7, Nicholas1024 wrote:This was pretty fun to read, can't wait to see the next installment.

JDGA · Post Post #9 (ISO) » Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:46 pm

Season 1, Round 2After the shocking backdoor of

Cancer Karkat

, the bots begin preparing themselves for a game that is apparently more intense than they thought at first glance. However, it's still only the second round, so not much can really be said before a new HoH is declared. Speaking of which...

HoH Competition #2: Skill (Memory Tiebreak)

This challenge is that of alphabet recital. The winner is the first one to recite the alphabet forwards, then backwards, then answer a series of mathematical questions with the numbers replaced by le-oh wait, it doesn't matter,

AlphaBOT

already won. In related news, Big Brother would like to assure you that all challenges are designed prior to casting and that any apparent bias in challenges towards or against a particular contestant is merely coindicental. In any case, to celebrate,

AlphaBOT

recited the alphabet backwards again, stopping on S to nominate

SeanBOT

and N to nominate

Night Snow

.
WHISPERS OOOO WHO WILL BE EVICTED OOOO POV TIME OOOO

PoV Competition #2: Speed (Luck Tiebreak)

Because it's winter down here, we figured the next challenge would mean FUN IN THE SNOW. Oh, did we mention the Big Brother house is on top of a mountain? Yeah, we're cool like that. (After all, we can't have any bots escaping, can we?~) So the actual challenge this time is a biathlon. 50% skiing around as quickly as possible, and 50% knife throwing (We didn't feel much like actual shooting so we went with the next best thing). Though as it turns out, most of the bots had no experience throwing knives. Maybe we should have thought about that. Oh well~ So everyone skiied around a bit, then threw knives at the targets, then skiied around a bit more, then threw more knives, then we called the challenge early because

BBBBB

was the only bot actually hitting anything and everyone else had accumulated a mountain of penalty time. Wait, you're saying we should have thought about that more since Backstabbing is literally its middle name? Big Brother would like to remind you again that these challenges really aren't biased we swear please don't pull us off air please please please please

*ahem*

Anyways. After

SeanBOT

vetoed

BBBBB

last round, most bots assumed that

BBBBB

would repay the favour, and whispers were had regarding who the replacement nominee would be. Well, as it turns out,

BBBBB

is a brat. A brat who decided not to veto anyone. Who could have seen that one coming? So the original nominations of

SeanBOT

and

Night Snow

stood.
As the bots prepared for the eviction ceremony, unsurprisingly there were plenty more whispers all over the house. The running theme seemed to be that

AlphaBOT

really wanted to see

SeanBOT

gone. Something about his name being an affront to the bot race, or something like that? Who knew the bots we cast could be so horrible as to discriminate on something as simple as your name? But would events actually transpire as our HoH planned? Find out, at the...

Eviction Ceremony #2

One by one,

FloaterBOT

,

MonikaBOT v2.0

,

Graves BOT

,

BBBBB

, and

OddBOT

went into the soundproof booth to decide who to vote for eviction, while

SeanBOT

,

Night Snow

, and

AlphaBOT

watched nervously. Eventually the process was completed and it was announced that, by a vote of 3-2,

Night Snow

...

has been eliminated.

JDGA · Post Post #10 (ISO) » Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:48 pm

Spoiler: Feirei - Night Snow

Seven bots remain. Who will be evicted next? Find out tomorrow~

ISO · Post Post #11 (ISO) » Tue Aug 26, 2014 4:52 pm

Because fuck eviction targets, apparently.

JDGA · Post Post #12 (ISO) » Tue Aug 26, 2014 5:40 pm

(It's worth noting that we're currently at 7/9 bots in the queue for Season 2 - Even if you've already got a bot in Season 1, you can write a new bot for inclusion in Season 2. I wouldn't mind getting the queue filled sooner rather than later, and once it does fill I'll run both seasons concurrently)

JDGA · Post Post #13 (ISO) » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:47 pm

Season 1, Round 3After the eviction ceremony, all the talk in the house is about

Night Snow

's sudden fall from HoH to jury. Naturally, this left no one more worried than

AlphaBOT

, the outgoing HoH. Talk was made, and perhaps alliances were being forged? Still, the round could not truly be said to have begun until a new HoH was crowned. So without further ado, let's get right to that!

HoH Competition #3: Memory (Endurance Tiebreak)

The challenge was simple. 15 items were displayed on a bookcase, five items on each of three shelves. Everyone had 30 seconds to study the items carefully, and then they were taken down and the bots had to place replicas of the items of their own set of shelves as accurately as possible. It was a fairly simple challenge, though it appeared the producers overestimated the difficulty of the challenge. Once the results were in, it turned out that

BBBBB

came last, failing to place even a single item correctly.

MonikaBOT v2.0

scored 9 correct, and

Graves BOT

got 13, only mixing up two items. On the other hand,

FloaterBOT

,

SeanBOT

, and

OddBOT

all achieved a perfect score of 15. It appeared a tiebreaker was needed... so the items were taken down again without warning and the bots had to replace them again from what they still remembered! This especially caught

SeanBOT

off-guard, who only got five correct this second time.

OddBOT

managed to place them correctly, but took too long and ran out of time before actually getting them all up, only scoring 14 as a result.

FloaterBOT

was the only one to maintain its perfect score, and as such becomes the Head of Household!

FloaterBOT

thought for a while, and then chose to nominate

Graves BOT

and

OddBOT

. I wonder why~
The other bots wondered too. Whispers were had... was there an alliance controlling things? There didn't seem to be any obvious reason for the nominations. With rumours flying everywhere, all eyes soon turned to the Power of Veto.

PoV Competition #3: Luck (Logic Tiebreak)

This challenge was the most classic of classics... READY! AIM! FIRE! And so they fired.

FloaterBOT

shot

AlphaBOT

, who shot air.

SeanBOT

shot

OddBOT

, who shot itself!

BBBBB

picked off

Graves BOT

, who shot

FloaterBOT

. Finally,

MonikaBOT v2.0

shot air and survived. After the dust had settled, this meant that

OddBOT

,

BBBBB

, and

MonikaBOT v2.0

were left. Round 2 saw

OddBOT

shoot itself while

BBBBB

and

MonikaBOT v2.0

watched and laughed as they moved into a duel for the PoV... In the final round,

BBBBB

shot itself... but

MonikaBOT v2.0

shot the air again to win PoV!
At the ceremony,

MonikaBOT v2.0

didn't wait too long for petitions, but almost immediately chose to save

OddBOT

! In response,

FloaterBOT

nominated

AlphaBOT

. Everyone agreed that something smelled fishy, and the general opinion was that cahoots were afoot. Elsewhere, behind closed doors,

FloaterBOT

and

MonikaBOT v2.0

were having a secret meeting about the upcoming eviction ceremony... and while the latter was very happy with the backdoor,

FloaterBOT

wanted to stick to its original plan of seeing

Graves BOT

gone. The result was a minor falling out between the duo, but how will the votes fall in the end? Find out, at the...

Eviction Ceremony #3

One by one,

MonikaBOT v2.0

,

BBBBB

,

SeanBOT

, and

OddBOT

went into the soundproof booth to decide who to vote for eviction, while

Graves BOT

,

AlphaBOT

, and

FloaterBOT

watched nervously. Eventually the process was completed and it was announced that, by a vote of 3-1,

Graves BOT

...

was safe, leaving

AlphaBOT

to be eliminated.

JDGA · Post Post #14 (ISO) » Wed Aug 27, 2014 7:48 pm

Spoiler: Save the Dragons - AlphaBOT

Six bots remain. Who will be evicted next? Find out tomorrow~

JDGA · Post Post #15 (ISO) » Thu Aug 28, 2014 4:44 pm

It's worth noting that Season 2 is now full, we're just waiting on a couple of reservations to actually be filled in.
So I am pleased to announce a minor rules patch to take effect in Season 3 - Elimination votes may not be determined randomly. (Previously it was only jury votes which had to be non-random). If you're stuck for a final tiebreak, I would recommend choosing to just vote for/against the eviction target.

JDGA · Post Post #16 (ISO) » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:15 pm

Season 1, Round 4Another week gone, and another former HoH turned juror.

AlphaBOT

joins

Night Snow

and

Cancer Karkat

in the list of bots who will receive the final say on the victor of the game. In other news, rumours were floating around that

SeanBOT

had seen

FloaterBOT

and

MonikaBOT v2.0

discussing things in secret again, and this news got leaked to all the houseguests. Reactions were... mixed. Before the situation could turn any more dramatic, however, it became time for another HoH Competition!

HoH Competition #4: Endurance (Memory Tiebreak)

It was time for a challenge involving water sport. The bots lined up outside the house's giant swimming pool, and watched 100 giant rings thrown into the pool. The winner was the one who could retrieve the most rings, but 100 rings was a lot and parts of the pool were pretty deep... (Not to mention those rings were definitely

not

distributed evenly)
As it turned out,

BBBBB

was aquaphobic and had absolutely no intention of so much as touching the pool. Unsurprisingly, he came last with 0.

MonikaBOT v2.0

put in a spirited effort, but had limited experience with water and was only able to retrieve 12 of the rings.

SeanBOT

managed third place, pulling up 25 rings.

Graves BOT

did very well with 28 rings, but in the end it was

OddBOT

who took the challenge, singlehandedly pulling up 35 of the sunken rings! When it came time to nominate people,

OddBOT

thought carefully. Of course, given the news about the reignited partnership,

FloaterBOT

went up on the block, but the HoH didn't fully trust

SeanBOT

either. Unsurprisingly, this move brought about controversy from almost everyone in the house. The only one who wasn't particularly fussed was

BBBBB

, who was in fact still trembling in a corner of the house after having fled the challenge arena. Whispers were had about what to do in this situation, but little did the bots know that everything was going to be turned on its head at the very next challenge.

PoV Competition #4: Logic (Luck Tiebreak)

This challenge was a scavenger hunt. Tokens were hidden around the house and surrounds, and the bots were given a list of cryptic clues to puzzle out which pointed to the locations of the tokens.

MonikaBOT v2.0

and

BBBBB

were able to find most of the tokens, but then a tragic accident saw the bag they were keeping them in dropped into the pool. The bag was too heavy to be pulled up easily, and with

BBBBB

trembling in a corner again,

MonikaBOT v2.0

's meagre underwater skills weren't enough to recover the tokens.

OddBOT

set out alone, but soon found itself lost somewhere out on the biathlon course.

FloaterBOT

and

Graves BOT

also decided to work together on the challenge, and together they were able to find almost all of the tokens (

FloaterBOT

and

MonikaBOT v2.0

decided not to work together in the challenge to try and throw off suspicion about their alliance). However,

SeanBOT

's superior clue-puzzling skills won the day, as it was able to singlehandedly locate every single one of the tokens to win the Power of Veto! Unsurprisingly,

SeanBOT

chose to veto itself, and it seems that

MonikaBOT v2.0

's misdirection in the challenge worked, as

OddBOT

's replacement nomination actually turned out to be

Graves BOT

! After the ceremony, more whispers were had about the peculiar choice of nominees, and in the end

OddBOT

appeared to get over its indecision and chose to primarily target

FloaterBOT

. But would the eviction target actually be evicted for the first time in the season? Find out, at the...

Eviction Ceremony #4

One by one,

MonikaBOT v2.0

,

BBBBB

, and

SeanBOT

went into the soundproof booth to decide who to vote for eviction, while

FloaterBOT

,

Graves BOT

, and

OddBOT

watched nervously. Eventually the process was completed and it was announced that, by a vote of 2-1,

Graves BOT

...

was once again safe, leaving

FloaterBOT

to be eliminated.

JDGA · Post Post #17 (ISO) » Thu Aug 28, 2014 6:17 pm

Spoiler: BipolarChemist - FloaterBOT

Five bots remain. Who will be evicted next? Find out tomorrow~

CuddlyCaucasian · Post Post #18 (ISO) » Fri Aug 29, 2014 1:36 am

Every bot's programming: "vote out the most recent HOH"

BipolarChemist · Post Post #19 (ISO) » Fri Aug 29, 2014 1:36 am

Graaaawr!
p-edit: GRRR CC

Prof Fridays · Post Post #20 (ISO) » Fri Aug 29, 2014 3:31 am

I'm rooting for BBBBB. That guy is a champion.

ISO · Post Post #21 (ISO) » Fri Aug 29, 2014 7:24 am

In post 18, CuddlyCaucasian wrote:Every bot's programming: "vote out the most recent HOH"

I hope so. I'd probably win.

JDGA · Post Post #22 (ISO) » Sat Aug 30, 2014 7:11 am

(Today's round got eaten by Galactic Civilizations, it seems. Whoops. Sorry about that! ^^; I'll continue tomorrow like normal.)

JDGA · Post Post #23 (ISO) » Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:07 pm

Season 1, Round 5

FloaterBOT

's elimination saw a continuation in the trend of former HoHs falling in the very next round. With

OddBOT

the outgoing HoH this round, would it survive? And on the other hand, with

MonikaBOT v2.0

's key ally gone, could it avoid being sent packing right after? It's time for Round 5 at the Big Brother house.

HoH Competition #5: Skill (Endurance Tiebreak)

This challenge involved the until-now unmentioned underground laser tag arena that

SeanBOT

discovered in the last round's scavenger hunt. The challenge was a simple 30-minute free-for-all in the arena.

SeanBOT

got off to an early lead, but soon fell behind as

Graves BOT

surged ahead. However, with five minutes left,

MonikaBOT v2.0

took the lead and never let it go to win HoH (

BBBBB

, for the record, never managed a single kill - apparently it couldn't figure out which way around to hold the laser gun). It was time for the nominations, and after some thought,

MonikaBOT v2.0

nominated

Graves BOT

and

OddBOT

. Many whispers were had; after all, this was

Graves BOT

's third consecutive nomination, and

OddBOT

was of course the cursed outgoing HoH. Clearly, this was going to be a crucial PoV competition.

PoV Competition #5: Speed (Logic Tiebreak)

This challenge was a game of orienteering around the mountain. Each of the bots were given a map of the area, with various points marked. The winner was the first one to reach each of the points in order and make it back to the start point. While raw speed was of course a necessity, route choice would also be essential.

MonikaBOT v2.0

was the last one to clock in at 57 minutes, having gotten lost halfway through the course.

OddBOT

came in fourth with a time of 45 minutes - while its route choice was good, it had sacrificed speed and walked a lot of the course. Third place went to

Graves BOT

with a time of 35 minutes - a respectable result, though not quite a winning one. In second place was

SeanBOT

with 30 minutes, which meant

BBBBB

won the challenge with an exceptional time of 20 minutes! Come the veto ceremony,

BBBBB

reaffirmed its status as a backstabbing brat by vetoing nobody! This meant that the vote this time really would be between

Graves BOT

and

OddBOT

, and many whispers were had around the house attempting to persuade the voters... but which of the nominees would fall? Find out, at the...

Eviction Ceremony #5

One after the other,

BBBBB

and

SeanBOT

went into the soundproof booth to decide who to vote for eviction, while

Graves BOT

,

OddBOT

, and

MonikaBOT v2.0

watched nervously. Soon the process was completed, and it was announced that, by a vote of 1-1...

We had a tie.

JDGA · Post Post #24 (ISO) » Sat Aug 30, 2014 8:12 pm

S1R5 ResultWhen the result is tied, the Head of Household casts the deciding vote for their Eviction Target. So that means

MonikaBOT v2.0

must decide who is leaving tonight, and after thinking for some time, a single name is announced:

OddBOT

.

Spoiler: D3f3nd3r - OddBOT

Four bots remain. Who will be evicted next? Find out tomorrow~

Round	HoH	Nominee A	Nominee B	PoV	Veto	Replacement	Eviction Target	Eliminated	Vote
1	KnightBOT	XalxeBOT	BOTIN8R	Discord BOT	(None)	N/A	BOTIN8R	XalxeBOT	6-0
2	Arachnae Vriska	Discord BOT	BOTIN8R	BOTIN8R	BOTIN8R	ChenBOT	Discord BOT	ChenBOT	3-2
3	Discord BOT	BOTIN8R	Arachnae Vriska	BOTIN8R	BOTIN8R	MONKEY KING BOT	MONKEY KING BOT	MONKEY KING BOT	2-2 (T)
4	KnightBOT	Discord BOT	Arachnae Vriska	Discord BOT	Discord BOT	ZingBOT	ZingBOT	Arachnae Vriska	2-1
5	ZingBOT	KnightBOT	LOYAL BOT	BOTIN8R	(None)	N/A	KnightBOT	KnightBOT	2-0
6	Discord BOT	BOTIN8R	LOYAL BOT	BOTIN8R	BOTIN8R	ZingBOT	ZingBOT	LOYAL BOT	1-0

Voting Table	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6
Discord BOT	XalxeBOT		(MONKEY KING BOT)	Arachnae Vriska	KnightBOT	(ZingBOT)
ZingBOT	XalxeBOT	ChenBOT	Arachnae Vriska		(KnightBOT)
BOTIN8R		ChenBOT	Arachnae Vriska	Arachnae Vriska	KnightBOT	LOYAL BOT
LOYAL BOT	XalxeBOT	Discord BOT	MONKEY KING BOT	ZingBOT		[ELIMINATED]
KnightBOT	(BOTIN8R)	ChenBOT	MONKEY KING BOT	(ZingBOT)	[ELIMINATED]
Arachnae Vriska	XalxeBOT	(Discord BOT)		[ELIMINATED]
MONKEY KING BOT	XalxeBOT	Discord BOT	[ELIMINATED]
ChenBOT	XalxeBOT	[ELIMINATED]
XalxeBOT	[ELIMINATED]