Belated Pattern of the Year 2012 voting thread

[Macbi]

So i completly forgot about this. voting closed and results will be posted within a few hours

By my count the results are as follows:

• 1 Statorless p3 Jason Summers 33 points
• 2 Direct stable Herschel duplicator Sergey Petrov 32 points
• 3 (tied) p4 glider reflector Karel Suhajda and Matthias Merzenich 31 points
• 3 (tied) 37P4H1V0 Josh Ball 31 points
• 5 444-tick glider-to-Herschel converter Sergey Petrov 27 points
• 6 (tied) Slow two-sided synthesis of the Herschel transmitter Sergey Petrov 26 points
• 6 (tied) G4 Herschel merge circuit Sergey Petrov 26 points
• 8 (tied) Herschel-less p62 gun Jason Summers 23 points
• 8 (tied) New c/5 diagonal rake design Matthias Merzenich 23 points
• 8 (tied) HLx111R Matthias Merzenich 23 points
• 11 (tied) Low density orphan Marijn Heule, Christiaan Hartman, Kees Kwekkeboom, and Alain Noels 22 points
• 11 (tied) 86P6H3V0 Matthias Merzenich and Josh Ball 22 points
• 13 Ambidextrous G5 Herschel transceiver Sergey Petrov and Paul Callahan 21 points
• 14 (tied) New c/4 diagonal spaceships Nicolay Beluchenko 20 points
• 14 (tied) New reflector periods Matthias Merzenich 20 points

It would be good to have a second count, but a preliminary congratulations to Jason Summers!

[atavoidirc]

full results:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0

RANKINGS:

1 Statorless p3 Jason Summers 30 points
2 Direct stable Herschel duplicator Sergey Petrov 29 points
3 p4 glider reflector Karel Suhajda and Matthias Merzenich 28 points
4 37P4H1V0 Josh Ball 27 points
5 444-tick glider-to-Herschel converter Sergey Petrov 27 points
6 Slow two-sided synthesis of the Herschel transmitter Sergey Petrov 24 points*
7 G4 Herschel merge circuit Sergey Petrov 24 points*
8 (tied) Herschel-less p62 gun Jason Summers 20 points*
8 (tied) New c/5 diagonal rake design Matthias Merzenich 20 points*
10 HLx111R Matthias Merzenich 20 points*
11 Low density orphan Marijn Heule, Christiaan Hartman, Kees Kwekkeboom, and Alain Noels 19 points*
12 86P6H3V0 Matthias Merzenich and Josh Ball 19 points*
13 Ambidextrous G5 Herschel transceiver Sergey Petrov and Paul Callahan 18 points
14 New c/4 diagonal spaceships Nicolay Beluchenko 17 points*
15 New reflector periods Matthias Merzenich 17 points*
*ties were broken by votes from those who were around in 2013 when this competition would have originally occurred.
**To prevent statistical anomolies, wwei47's vote were not counted.

Some extra stats:

Bellwether:ihatecorderships
Iconoclast:Clippy Cosmologist

Most similar tastes:Clippy Cosmologist and Book
Most divergent tastes:Clippy Cosmologist and Dbell

Most correlation between patterns: 'New c/5 diagonal rake design' and 'Herschel-less p62 gun'
Most anticorrelation between patterns: 'Herschel-less p62 gun' and 'G4 Herschel merge circuit'

carsoncheng and Ian07 had a correlation of exactly 0.
'Direct stable Herschel duplicator' and 'Statorless p3' had a correlation of exactly -0.2.

With the most boring year with a POTY done, the awkward gap finally filled, and it thoroughly proven that I should never host one of these again, this concludes POTY 2012!

[confocaloid]

By my count the results are as follows:

• 1 Statorless p3 Jason Summers 33 points
• 2 Direct stable Herschel duplicator Sergey Petrov 32 points
• 3 (tied) p4 glider reflector Karel Suhajda and Matthias Merzenich 31 points
• 3 (tied) 37P4H1V0 Josh Ball 31 points
• 5 444-tick glider-to-Herschel converter Sergey Petrov 27 points
• 6 (tied) Slow two-sided synthesis of the Herschel transmitter Sergey Petrov 26 points
• 6 (tied) G4 Herschel merge circuit Sergey Petrov 26 points
• 8 (tied) Herschel-less p62 gun Jason Summers 23 points
• 8 (tied) New c/5 diagonal rake design Matthias Merzenich 23 points
• 8 (tied) HLx111R Matthias Merzenich 23 points
• 11 (tied) Low density orphan Marijn Heule, Christiaan Hartman, Kees Kwekkeboom, and Alain Noels 22 points
• 11 (tied) 86P6H3V0 Matthias Merzenich and Josh Ball 22 points
• 13 Ambidextrous G5 Herschel transceiver Sergey Petrov and Paul Callahan 21 points
• 14 (tied) New c/4 diagonal spaceships Nicolay Beluchenko 20 points
• 14 (tied) New reflector periods Matthias Merzenich 20 points

It would be good to have a second count, but a preliminary congratulations to Jason Summers!

Confirmed, my counts are the same:

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#02 33 Statorless p3
#07 32 Direct stable Herschel duplicator
#01 31 37P4H1V0
#06 31 p4 glider reflector
#03 27 444-tick glider-to-Herschel converter
#04 26 G4 Herschel merge circuit
#09 26 Slow two-sided synthesis of the Herschel transmitter
#08 23 HLx111R
#11 23 New c/5 diagonal rake design
#12 23 Herschel-less p62 gun
#10 22 86P6H3V0
#15 22 Low density orphan
#05 21 Ambidextrous G5 Herschel transceiver
#13 20 New c/4 diagonal spaceships
#14 20 New reflector periods

[Macbi]

full results:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... edit#gid=0
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I believe you have 1 instead of 2 for dbell's opinion about 37P4H1V0. Fixing this makes third place a tie (and changes the most correlated patterns to Statorless p3' and '37P4H1V0').

Also I believe the bellwether is actually me, ihatecorderships was the second most correlated with the total.

[Sokwe]

Congratulations to Jason Summers and the statorless p3, and thanks to everyone who voted or helped organize this belated competition! I'm happy to see it finally concluded. Now that we have the winners, we can include them in the Pattern of the Decade (2010-2019) competition that I'm hoping will still happen (after I accidentally quashed it a while back).

*ties were broken by votes from those who were around in 2013 when this competition would have originally occurred.

I can't see this mentioned anywhere. If it wasn't mentioned prior to voting, I don't think it should be used for tie breaking. Also, Macbi and Dbell (the only accounts besides mine from 2013 or earlier that voted) were not active in 2013 and very likely wouldn't have voted in the competition in that year. Also, I don't think my vote should count differently from other users.

With the most boring year with a POTY done, the awkward gap finally filled, and it thoroughly proven that I should never host one of these again, this concludes POTY 2012!

You did fine. Certainly no worse than anyone else who has tried to host these things.

[Book]

...Now that we have the winners, we can include them in the Pattern of the Decade (2010-2019) competition that I'm hoping will still happen (after I accidentally quashed it a while back).

I thinks a decade is way too long a time period for a competition. Too much changes in 10 years. On the other hand, it would be interesting if someone more knowledgeable and in the Game longer than I were to write an article tracing the progress of CGOL year-by-year as shown by all the POTY winners.