User:Testitemqlstudop/POTY2019 Nominations

1. David Hilbert, the first p23 and different oscillator period in half a decade (Luka Okanishi and Aidan F. Pierce)
2. Glider syntheses, both of which spanned a large period of time and collective effort, providing an effective lower bound for bit counts in synthesisable still lifes
3. Remini, a universal constructor based puffer, purely made with p30 technology. (Michael Simkin)
4. Spider syntheses - the largest elementary spaceship syntheses to date, and the first syntheses of a c/5 spaceship (original syntheses by Martin Grant, with reductions by many)
5. 47575M and relatives, a record-breaking non-switch-engine-based methuselah (Adam P. Goucher)
6. Dueling banjos. used to drastically reduce many gun periods (Apple Bottom)
7. 66P13 and variations, allowing for bumpers and other mechanisms (Bullet51 and Aidan F. Pierce)
8. Mountain range patterns, patterns exhibiting irregular and inconsistent growth (Dean Hickerson)
9. Stable variant of cyclotron (Goldtiger997, with earlier work by Dean Hickerson, Paul Callahan and Adam P. Goucher)
10. Knightwave stabilization, allowing for an infinite amount of distinct knightships (Matthias Merzenich)
11. 230P8, high-clearance p8 domino sparker (Fredrick Johansson, wildmyron on forums)
12. 46P4H1V0 synthesis and gun (Tanner Jacobi, Matthias Merzenich, Martin Grant, and Goldtiger997)
13. R49, a very useful and compact pre-Herschel turner/advancer (Entity Valkyrie, Luka Okanishi)
14. p49 skewed pulsar hassler, the first known p49 that isn't a glider loop (by Martin Grant, based on a supported version found by Jason Summers)
15. New gun designs, clever new gun components that allow the reduction of a large number of glider guns in the small guns collection. (Tanner Jacobi)
16. Systematic survey of small patterns: a systematic survey of all patterns up to 9 cells, as well as a survey of all single-cluster 10-cell patterns resulting in the discovery of two record-breaking 10-celled methuselae, bunnies 10a and bunnies 10b.
17. p250 c/10 orthogonal rake by christoph r, the first c/10 rake with a period below 320, as well as the lowest period so far achieved for a c/10 rake.
18. Slavic, the current smallest universal-constructor based quadratic growth. (Pavel Grankovskiy)
19. Scholar, second elementary 2c/7, discovered with the novel search program lsss (Andrew Wade)