233.43 name: Yaohua Hu, lab_name: MSRAIG 231.50 name: Jessica Hodgins, lab_name: hoping for the best 158.50 name: Aila, Lehtinen, Laine and Miettinen, lab_name: rand()%745 + 1 151.57 name: Tom Mertens, lab_name: Breakfast Clubbers 150.00 name: Doug Epps, lab_name: Everything.com 136.00 name: captain, lab_name: big researchers with dental failure 123.57 name: Zhaosheng Bao, lab_name: fracture 123.57 name: Stephen H. Westin, lab_name: Big Red 108.57 name: Pieter Peers, lab_name: Mom's Friendly Graphics Lab 105.00 name: Cyril Soler, lab_name: Hairy cheese'labCan 29 human teams hold off 1000 flying monkeys armed with quatloos and typewriters? Well, here are how 1000 random monkey teams made out:
213.14 name: Fundi Washoe Tomasello, lab_name: Monkey #509 185.00 name: Faustino Birute Sanz, lab_name: Monkey #333 169.24 name: Fifi Cheeta Premack, lab_name: Monkey #692 161.14 name: Flo Sherman Varki, lab_name: Monkey #970 151.14 name: Fred Austin Fossey, lab_name: Monkey #185 150.57 name: Ferdinand Dian Premack, lab_name: Monkey #624 146.14 name: Fred Crickette Rumbaugh, lab_name: Monkey #745 141.14 name: Fifi Austin Terrace, lab_name: Monkey #882 137.00 name: Fifi Crickette Tomasello, lab_name: Monkey #542 132.00 name: Fred Dian McGrew, lab_name: Monkey #425Those damn dirty apes are only a little more than a sketch author away from victory. The monkeys picked teams by randomly choosing, throwing away any choices that put them over their quatloo limit. For whatever reason, Kelly Dobson (who didn't earn any points this year) was the most popular pick among the chimps, chosen 31 times. Among the humans, there was a three-way tie in popularity among Paul Debevec, Steve Marschner, and Bruce Walter, each selected by five labs, and all of whom scored points.
The best monkey team right now, led by chimp Fundi Washoe Tomasello ("Monkey #509" to his friends), is:
### Cost Name =============================== 311 10 Joel Hindorff 320 10 John Eyles 321 5 John F. Hughes 119 100 Daniel Cohen-Or 233 210 Heung-Yeung Shum 59 10 Avneesh Sud 423 20 Mark Kilgard 169 30 Eric Tabellion 453 5 Michael A. KowalskiIt's interesting this chimp picked John F. "Spike" Hughes, as Spike turns out to be the most cost effective choice this year:
### Value Cost Efficiency Name ============================================== 322 32.00 5 6.4000 John F. Hughes 269 25.00 5 5.0000 James Davis 353 20.00 5 4.0000 Kari Pulli 167 30.00 10 3.0000 Enrico Gobbetti 180 30.00 10 3.0000 Fabio Marton 275 30.00 10 3.0000 Jarek Rossignac 642 35.00 15 2.3333 Takeo Igarashi 461 60.00 30 2.0000 Michael F. Deering 380 30.57 20 1.5286 Kun Zhou 423 15.24 10 1.5238 Mark HorowitzChoosing these ten as a lab would have cost a mere 120 quatloos and netted 307.81 points.
This same monkey also picked for his lab the largest point winner overall, Heung-Yeung Shum, who was worth 111.14 points this year:
### Value Cost Efficiency Name =============================================== 234 111.14 210 0.5293 Heung-Yeung Shum 120 70.00 100 0.7000 Daniel Cohen-Or 181 70.00 85 0.8235 Fabio Pellacini 232 65.00 120 0.5417 Henrik Wann Jensen 62 61.14 90 0.6794 Baining Guo 461 60.00 30 2.0000 Michael F. Deering 154 60.00 130 0.4615 Doug L. James 559 60.00 50 1.2000 Ren Ng 192 56.00 140 0.4000 Frédo Durand 573 55.00 210 0.2619 Ronald Fedkiw 340 50.00 90 0.5556 Jovan PopovicPast participants may recall Dr. Shum from the 2001 FGL, where it was discovered that he could be bought cheap, as he was listed as both Heung-Yeung and Harry. In a similar vein, there was one (known) goof in the contest this year: shockingly, Andrew Gardner and Andy Gardner are the same person. One human hired Andrewy for his team, and was charged the lower price, but that player is not in the top ten currently, so there's unlikely to be any controversy. Pity.
Interestingly, last year's most efficient and largest overall point-getter, Fabio Pellacini, is still high in the overall rankings this year. His efficiency rating is down this year, of course, since his value increased so much last year.
If you want to check your score or see the values of any researcher-for-hire, the list is here.
All for now, until the results of the sketches committee are public.
You can check out this year's contest entry info, or the results of last year's contest.