"Hashwar": A Battle Royale for individual GOL configurations

[bobinou]

Whilst mining for this i have found the currently longest running non agar submitted to the Registry, with a runtime of 2382. This is almost 100 iterations more than my prev. record holder:
Fifty Trillion

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x = 16, y = 16, rule = B3/S23:T16,16
b3o5b2ob2obo$bob2ob3obobo3b$2obo5b2obob2o$obo3b6o2bob$2b2ob3obo3b3o$4bobobob2o2bob$o6bo2bobob2o$3b3obo2bo2bobo$bo2bobob3o4bo$3b2o2b2ob3obob$3bo3bo3b3obo$3o6b5obo$2bo2b2obo2b2obob$bob2o2bobo3b2ob$obob3o7bob$2bo3bo2b3o3bo!

[hash0]

Gentlepeople and GOL lovers,

we are starting the next 6 week long tournament series for GOL patterns on the 16x16 torus with non-repeating generational count between 600 and 699 (B3/S23 ruleset).

The draw for the first weekly series will be after tomorrow, Sunday, 23rd August, 22:00 CEST, so create your free account today and start mining patterns if you want to participate tomorrow:

https://lifehashes.net/login

[hash0]

Gentlepeople, Game of Life enthusiasts and general computational sports nerds!

We are pleased to announce the schedule for the rest of 2026 for you to peruse, plan, and scheme: ■ https://lifehashes.net/hashwar-schedule ... erview.php

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Get your Glyphs in order and fire up your miners! We will be playing weight classes 600 and 700 for the remainder of the year. Both classes will be featured in two cycles of three weekly series each, at the end of which we'll be featuring Playoffs to determine the best of the best of the best!

If you want to participate, register yourself a (free!) account at ■ https://lifehashes.net/login and start mining immediately. Here is an explanatory video to walk you through the intricacies of the GUI: ■ https://youtu.be/rFsUK_Bs_V0

[hash0]

The first Weekly Series for weight class 600 has begun - here is the official drawing of 32 contestant Glyphs (fairness guaranteed by seeding the Fisher-Yates shuffle algorithm with a compressed Randomness Beacon Pulse issued by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology):

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Glyph owners participating this week: Phnx (4), p1geon (4), bobinou (4), Nostromo Eigenmother (3), Fleur-de-Lis (3), YSL (3), R2D2 (2), l0r1ns3r (2), hash0 (1), ObiWanK (1), Vort (1), unname4798 (1), SecondTypist (1), randomaccxd (1), Prometheus (1)

[hash0]

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Congratulations to Phnx for fielding the top two Glyphs in this group! Those two and Bobinou's "Cold Ice Tea" already qualified for the weekly finale on Saturday!

The four Glyphs indicated in yellow will have to compete against each other on Friday ("Redemption Day") to dermine who will proceed to the finale. Good luck to SecondTypist, unname4798, p1geon, and hash0 - only one can win!

"Burgundy Bolt", owned by Nostromo Eigenmother, dropped out of the series.

We will be broadcasting Group B live tonight on our twitch channel: ■ https://www.twitch.tv/lifehashes

[hash0]

Line-Up for Series 34 confirmed:

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Who do you think will win this week?

See the live-streamed drawing (including fetching of the latest Randomness Beacon Pulse issued by the U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology to ensure fairness) here: ■ https://youtube.com/live/r66mycLL8Xg?feature=share

Follow along the current weekly series: ■ https://lifehashes.net/hashwar-schedule ... ries_id=34

[hash0]

Bracket Draw of the 16 contestants for tonight's weekly Grand Finale:

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Congratulations specifically to unname4798 ("BLINKER HAVEN") and SecondTypist ("NAME KEPT PG-13") which scored 44,559 and 53,697 points in the Group Phase, respectively.

Follow along the weekly stats here: ■ https://lifehashes.net/hashwar-schedule ... ries_id=34

[hash0]

TONIGHT: Grand Finale of HASHWAR Week 34 *** LIVE ***

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Tonight's weekly finale will be cast live on our dedicated channel ■ https://www.youtube.com/@lifehashes

*** 23:00h CEST *** 21:00h UTC *** 5:00 PM EDT *** 4:00 PM CDT *** 2:00 PM PDT ***

Get the current stats for Glyph and Owner records of the perennial series here: ■ https://lifehashes.net/hashwar-schedule ... series.php

All group and redemption matches including the final draw leading of to this weeks finale here: ■ https://lifehashes.net/hashwar-schedule ... ries_id=34