My predictions for 2024

Having stumbled across the Chronicle pages I thought it could be fun to make some predictions for what might occur this year.

• HawkOnFire will be outperformed by a nanobot for the first time (Prediction made privately to myself with the initial release of Quantum)
• Shadow will be outperformed (in melee) by a minibot for the first time
• Xor will still be waiting for somebody to dethrone ScalarR in the general melee rumble
• Sheldor will take the crown in either micro or mini 1v1 (possibly both)
• Everybody on the wiki will have had at least one birthday

I’m pretty sure the last prediction will be true.

• Congrats. Curious about the new targeting.
• Could happen because of refinements in Minimum Risk Movement since then. Mirage is only one point of APS away.
• Sure, I haven't studied it closely, but it has great survival. So great in fact that it might be trading off APS in some situations.
• Possible. String-based pattern matching in Java is just so efficient that I don't think Epeeist will be a top APS contender (PWIN is a different story). But I have been making some progress in expanding WaveShark's gun and understanding Multiple Choice.
• With all the natural language tech nowadays it's hard to say.