TEMPORARILY PAUSED -- OCA Discovery of the Year 2025 Voting

[NNlk05]

Is the voting going to start soon?
Nobody has made any nominations for a while, so if you want your pattern to be the OCA discovery of the year, you should do it now!

Here you go. It's almost September now, so I may as well start it.

Entries

#1 HexaSmodel (islptng)
First infinite nested SMOSMOS...MOS on a hexagonal grid in 32 states

#2 T-and-Tub (B2cik3-cijn4cknqr5-anqy6ekn7/S1c2acn3-aijq4cjktw5ejny6aen7c8)
(islptng, H. H. P. M. P. Cole, hibiscus, Disaster16439, I6_I6, R2INT, and others.)
First OCA recreation of APGsembly and a lot of other things engineered (i.e., a gemoid)

#3 B2-ak3ce4eikqrz5-iknq6-ek8/S1c2aek3aekn4eiknry5eiky6-ei7c8
(Yujh, NimbleRogue, vilc, WhiteHawk, unix with clock, R2INT, FWKnightship, b-engine, et al.)
A rule with more than 1100 NRSS (nonadjustable reduced speed of ship).

#4 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3071&start=250#p210748 (AforAmpere)
The first SMOSMOSMOS in INT.

#5 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3071&start=300#p218720 (yaochen2)
INT SMOS made of three separate 2-ship interactions.

#6 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6649&p=216034#p216034 (NimbleRogue)
First nonadjustable ship in INT over a period of 10 billion.

#7 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6458&start=75#p217084 (FWKnightship)
The INT rule with the second most-known NRSS and the most NRSS slopes.

#8 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6458&start=75#p217 ... 41#p217741 (Kathina)
Unstable version of B23/S2V that can move its bounding box

#10 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1074&p=214513#p214513 (Naszvadi)
Corderization of small 20c/44 engine in B3468/S0357

#11 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1798&p=219626#p219626 (confocaloid)
Glider extraction from (B3/S023) DotLife flotillae.

#12 viewtopic.php?t=3670 (Various)
Several new hexagonal spaceships, with an oblique one in the outer totalistic hexagonal rule B256/S256H.

#13 viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2597&p=223249#p223249 (Lazy Boi, Naszvadi)
Turing Completeness proof of B34/S0134V and related rules.

#14 Another SMOSMOSMOS (splitterrules)
A set of 54 SMOSMOSMOSes.

#15 Checkerboard, Day and Night (R2INT)
A rule that is not only self-complementary under black/white inversion, but also under XORing with a checkerboard.

#16 Traveling T's (Various, incl. ThePlayzr, Resu, mmmmmmmmm, hotcrystal0, hibiscus, PK22, H. H. P. M. P. Cole, LuveelVoom, pifricted, AbhpzTa, rabbit, R2INT, yujh, EvinZL, FWKnightship, shuich01, PkmnQ, I6_I6, NNlk05, yyh_baboon and others the list missed.)
a Turing-Complete margolus supporting 2TFL rule with known p3, p5, p7, p8, and p11 reflectors. The most recent version of the full stamp collection can be found at User:PK22/OCA:Travelling Ts/Full Stamp Collection. This does not include the 3c/8 distaff, which can be found here.

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Voting closes on 2026-11-07 23:59:59 UTC-12:00 (Which is 4am for me so you may still have a few hours.)
Have fun voting!

[R2INT]

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[WhiteHawk]

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[TheWayOfTheCon]

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[NimbleRogue]

Is the voting going to start soon?
Nobody has made any nominations for a while, so if you want your pattern to be the OCA discovery of the year, you should do it now!

Here you go. It's almost September now, so I may as well start it.

2 of the nominations from the nomination thread are not included in the voting thread:
"Checkerboard, Day and Night" - R2INT and "The INT rule with the second most known NRSS and the most NRSS slopes" - FWKnightship
I would suggest that we close the voting thread and give everyone at least 1 more week for nominating (I know that there has not been any recent nominations but it is good to give people time to look over and check the nominations and to talk about what to include/how to format them)

[NNlk05]

2 of the nominations from the nomination thread are not included in the voting thread:
"Checkerboard, Day and Night" - R2INT and "The INT rule with the second most known NRSS and the most NRSS slopes" - FWKnightship
I would suggest that we close the voting thread and give everyone at least 1 more week for nominating (I know that there has not been any recent nominations but it is good to give people time to look over and check the nominations and to talk about what to include/how to format them)

Thanks -- fixed.
I'll also allow 1 week for nominations. The deadline is moved to 2026-11-07 23:59:59 UTC-12:00.

Can you recast your votes (after the week is up?)

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[NNlk05]

Now the week is up... can TheWayOfTheCon, WhiteHawk, and R2INT recast their votes?

[R2INT]

EDIT: Recast my votes (#2 through #14 were unmodified, #15 and #16 are new)

[TheWayOfTheCon]

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[LuveelVoom]

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[NNlk05]

... due to my mistakes, I think it is better for someone else to host it...

[NimbleRogue]

... due to my mistakes, I think it is better for someone else to host it...

I don't think you should beat yourself up about messing up, I think this is just a sign that we should put more time and effort as a community into curating and creating the nomination text and list. Why don't you put what you currently have in as a draft in the nomination thread, and wait to start the voting until some people have looked it over and okayed it and then give people another week. In the future we should make sure there is a nomination list on the wiki, and that we are posting draft versions of the voting post to the nominations thread.

[ThePlayzr]

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[NimbleRogue]

I don't mean to be the party pooper here, but I would like to ask @mods to lock/delete this thread. We all need to work on tidying up the nomination list so we can best show off the wonderful discoveries our community found in 2025. Currently there is a few big errors, and there is a lot of polish that is needed. Keeping this thread open only adds extra confusion

[dvgrn]

I don't think you should beat yourself up about messing up, I think this is just a sign that we should put more time and effort as a community into curating and creating the nomination text and list.

Amen to all of that! Organizing one of these POTY/DOTY votes is just incredibly difficult and time-consuming, and even after one has spent a lot of time it will usually still turn out that some problem or other is hiding in plain sight.

Maybe one of the first things we should try to do in future nomination threads is to find a team of let's say two or three volunteers, who agree in advance to do thorough reviews of the voting list as it works its way into final form. The convention would be that everyone on the team should sign off on having reviewed the list, before the last signer-off starts the voting thread.

... Too complicated? Probably -- but it's less complicated than trying to figure out what to do once voting has already started, and has to be re-started.

It seems like NimbleRogue's idea is a good one, of locking this thread and starting the voting again in a fresh thread. So I'll lock this thread at least temporarily, and will try to keep an eye on the nominations thread to see if there's anything else I can do to help.