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Hi!

I started robocoding when there were only a dozen or so bots in existence. I find it quite amazing that bots just keep getting better, I thought the limit had been reached several times over.

I used to run the [[MiniBotChallenge]] competition.

I have produced lots of bots, here I mention my favourites:
* [[Relativity]] - my one-time hope for a champion bot
* [[Saturn]] - new thinking (for me at least) with a circling movement along secants, improved on Relativity's firing to hit bullet dodgers better
* [[Neptune]] - new ideas both in firing and in movement
* [[FallingLeaf]] and [[FallingLeafRobot]] - fun comparison between a [[Robot]] and an [[AdvancedRobot]] on the same basic idea. I really should hack FallingLeaf into a [[NanoBot]] some day...
* [[CherryBlossom]] - The beatifully coded (IMHO) [[MiniBot]] version of [[Neptune]]'s [[Laser Targeting|laser]] combined with FallingLeaf's successful movement. Did really well in Qohnil's [[One-one-one|1-on-1]] ratings and [[MiniBot]] one-on-one.
* [[Category:Haiku Bots|HaikuBots]] - Not my creation at all, a spin-off of the now discontinued [[PicoBot]] class. With the race to produce the smallest efficient bot I noticed that they all had a similar structure: just four lines of active code and they all embrace one simple idea in robocoding = very similar to haiku poetry.
* [[Iapetus]] - first [[PatternMatching|pattern matcher]] fit into a [[MicroBot]]. Ruled micro one-on-one for a few weeks.
* [[Pandora]] - my [[PerceptualBot]], beat all other perceptual bots on survival last time I checked.
* [[PandorasBox]] - the [[NanoBot]] version of [[Pandora]] (but not perceptual any more) - Make me proud, you sweet little thing!

I should also mention that I made [[Pluto]] which placed fourth in the Intermediate category of the [[Robocode Rumble]] (categories were divided on Java experience, which perhaps was a bit weird). Pluto is not a "finished" bot (check the output window when it wins), just a step on the way to [[Fusion]] which has good ideas, but not the perfect execution of them. Fusion was donated to an [[Open Source|open-source]] project, the FusionFramework , then I got "stuck" in MiniBots.

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 * [[FallingLeaf]] and [[FallingLeafRobot]] - fun comparison between a [[Robot]] and an [[AdvancedRobot]] on the same basic idea. I really should hack FallingLeaf into a [[NanoBot]] some day...
 * [[CherryBlossom]] - The beatifully coded (IMHO) [[MiniBot]] version of [[Neptune]]'s [[Laser Targeting|laser]] combined with FallingLeaf's successful movement. Did really well in Qohnil's [[One-one-one|1-on-1]] ratings and [[MiniBot]] one-on-one.
-* [[Category:Haiku Bots|HaikuBots]] - Not my creation at all, a spin-off of the now discontinued [[PicoBot]] class. With the race to produce the smallest efficient bot I noticed that they all had a similar structure: just four lines of active code and they all embrace one simple idea in robocoding = very similar to haiku poetry.
+* [[:Category:Haiku Bots|HaikuBots]] - Not my creation at all, a spin-off of the now discontinued [[PicoBot]] class. With the race to produce the smallest efficient bot I noticed that they all had a similar structure: just four lines of active code and they all embrace one simple idea in robocoding = very similar to haiku poetry.
 * [[Iapetus]] - first [[PatternMatching|pattern matcher]] fit into a [[MicroBot]]. Ruled micro one-on-one for a few weeks.
 * [[Pandora]] - my [[PerceptualBot]], beat all other perceptual bots on survival last time I checked.