The following critters were selected to be most "entertaining." The two with an asterisk by their name also were precontest winners, which is why 14 precontest winners were selected instead of 12. Cloughsky was selected as the most entertaining. *BergHusky *Cloughsky coleLilPump Evade Below are the 14 precontest winners in order from highest to lowest total. Cloughsky BergHusky JoinSmashAtUW JY_UWPD Beehive Grunt Jewel BoundlessBoi Mrmeeseeks RheaHusky SLSmiley TheV2 Blinky Canary The diagram below shows the series of qualifying rounds that we had leading to the final four winners. +------------------------+ | Evade | | JY_UWPD +------------------------+ | Beehive #1 | Beehive | | SLSmiley #2 | SLSmiley | +------------------------+ | | coleLilPump | JoinSmashAtUW #1 | | JoinSmashAtUW #1 | Grunt #2 +------------------------+ | Grunt #2 +------------------------+ JoinSmashAtUW #2 | | TheV2 | | Grunt #4 | +------------------------+ | | | Blinky | | BergHusky #1 | | BergHusky #1 +------------------------+ Cloughsky #3 | | Jewel #2 | BergHusky #2 +------------------------+ | RheaHusky | Jewel | +------------------------+ | | Canary | Cloughsky #1 | | Cloughsky #1 | BoundlessBoi | | BoundlessBoi #2 +------------------------+ | Mrmeeseeks | +------------------------+ The winners were able to choose one item each from the following: * Goedel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter * Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future by John MacCormick * Logicomix: An epic search for truth by Apostolos Doxiadis * loaded dice (always roll 6's) * a slinky * a Rubiks cube