The scores are all in and the decision of the winner is an unanimous one.

The winner of the 2011 Chatterbox Challenge is:

    Bildgesmythe   By Patti Roberts

Second Place goes to Mitsuku by Stephen Worswick
Third Place goes to Skynet AI by Ken Hurtubise

The scoring goes as follows:

1) Blidesymthe - 90
2) Mitsuku - 74
3) Skynet AI - 65
4) Chomsky - 52
5) Denise -46
6) Zero - 45
7) Jeeny AI - 41
8) Alice - 38
9) English Tutor - 36
10) Jexdon - 33
11) Babbage - 29

Best New Bot - Virtual Assistant Denise by Guile Lindroth
Most Popular Bot - Mitsuku by Stephen Worswick

Well done Patti and Bildgesmythe. I thought you had won when I saw the transcripts.

Patty congratulations! That makes Bildgesmythe the all-time champion with 3 wins of the Chatterbox Challenge.

Steve, great job. Very impressive for a “rookie” to take second place and most popular bot.

Congratulations on your 3rd place too Ken. It was a good contest and a big thank you to all the judges and organisers who gave up their time freely to ensure this year’s contest was a huge success.

I’ve just updated the awards tab:
http://www.chatbots.org/awards/announcement/results_chatterbox_challenge_2011/

with links to to the chatbots:
http://www.chatbots.org/awards/chatterbox_challenge/year_2011/

Congratulations all! Nice work!

Thanks so much!

@Merlin: Well done as well! Good work…. Ken!. And now I finally discovered your real name. Time to stand-up and reveal your identity?

“Patty congratulations! That makes Bildgesmythe the all-time champion with 3 wins of the Chatterbox Challenge.”

Correction…she has tied the record. Talk-Bot hopes to slay the dragon in some future unknown event. 

Congratulations to all the winners!

Congrats Patti! 3 times winner, nice!!

Chatbots listed as nominees or winners in one of the competitions:
A.L.I.C.E.(16x)
Ultra Hal Assistant(13x)
Jabberwacky(12x)
Eugene Goostman(11x)
Talk-Bot(11x)

Compliments to all round one contestants.

Skynet-AI just got its 3rd place medal in the mail.

Thanks again Wendell for a very competitive Chatterbox Challenge.

Well, wrap it around your monitor, and snap a pic! We wanna see it!

That’s good Merlin. 

Congratulations to you and Skynet-AI.

79b.org would have made it to the second round, had it not been stigmatized by one judge for using ELIZA responses. Who knew there was an unwritten contest rule: All ELIZA responses, even used in part, are automatically scored zero.

May he rest in peace, Joseph Weizenbaum, but I respectfully disagree with the trend he started to stigmatize ELIZA.  Whenever I hear someone say, “... as Dumb as ELIZA”, I feel like saying, “Let me see you build something as ‘Dumb as ELIZA’” 

ELIZA was created in 1966 by Joseph Weizenbaum. Saying ELIZA is dumb is like saying the history of chatbots is dumb. 
Lastly, no complaints about any judge.  They are human, subjective and they volunteered.  So thank you to all the judges.

Congrats Merlin. Hope you have some good place for it

Dave Morton - Apr 21, 2011:

Well, wrap it around your monitor, and snap a pic! We wanna see it!

If you log on to Skynet-AI and ask him:

“Can you show me your medal?”

He will be happy to show it to you.