Hi-
On my 4/15 post, I indicated that we will announce the winners on 4/22. We are still in the process of conducting a full audit and it is taking us a little longer to finalize the results. We anticipate announcing the results shortly.

Pam

Henry -
Since you are on the east coast and the games server is located on the west
coast with the timer set for pacific coast time, you should have known to do the basic math of playing till 3am.

Intel & Others -
The whole cheat process which has been released on other sites is semi-complicated and time consuming (which i will show below) Only audit process worth looking at is speed time between battles for data submission. Any discrepences during the 4-5 days the game was unplayable due to database *fixes* should be ignored as all players scores were reset to the score before the fix. (there are no server hacks/attacks)

-How the hack is made-
As i mentioned before the GET protocol was used to post the battle data string to the server which enabled cheaters to design their own data string and send that via ones browser.

The string used at first was robobrawl.com/php/editRobotStats.php?stats=ZwA8ZKjksQRlAGNjsQO8ZD==&time=1200227157531&pass=ROBOTPASSWORD&user=ROBOTUSERNAME

the stats= is the encrypted game data which after you decrypt it from ROT13 is MjN8MXwxfDEyNTAwfDB8MQ== then decrypt that string from BASE64 shows this 23|1|1|12500|0|1 this shows battle 23 then if you won = 1 (2 if you lost) the next 1 means how many robots you killed in that battle followed by points earned for that battle followed by 0 which is xeon_pts and the end number being power pts.

Without having to play the game is a time consuming process which would not serve to help anyone during those last few days as its much easier and faster to play legitimately as shown below..

So in order to create your own game data string you first need to create a large text list of a numbering sequence..say you played the game legitimately for the first 25 battles you start with a numbered sequence starting with
25
26
so on till say 500..so after making a text list with 25-500 then you would need to add
|1|1|12500|0|0 to the end of all those numbers..note* this method was changed during the last week of play as they randomized the string order and added total points to the encrypted string so adding 12500 to the string added tons more time to create a valid string of which you needed to add 12500 to the TOTAL points and so on and so forth..also eliminating the use of cheating.

So.. once the cheaters had their text list then you need to double encrypt it before sending it to the server which in this case is taking the home made string 23|1|1|12500|0|1 encrypt that to base64 which is MjN8MXwxfDEyNTAwfDB8MQ== then encrypt that again to ROT13 which is ZwA8ZKjksQRlAGNjsQO8ZD== then add that string to the url string robobrawl.com/php/editRobotStats.php?stats=ZwA8ZKjksQRlAGNjsQO8ZD==&time=1200227157531&pass=ROBOTPASSWORD&user=ROBOTUSERNAME
Then add that to the browsers url field and send it.

The amount of time to create a certain game play data on the fly takes twice as long as it would to play officially. Which shows that the cheating method although works its just not worth scrutinizing toward game play during the last week of play as the method takes too much time & probably most kiddie cheaters may have been thrown off by the randomizing and total points trick.

Pam -
Call it a day and give the three top players there prize they earned it. watched them all week..Henry (seeno) blew it by stopping his play early.

- Prometheus :) :)

8 DAYS already and still no official release of the winners?

I've seen campaigns giving away 50k, cars, even million dollars and announce the winners under 5 days.

looks kinda silly for the amount of time your taking

Hi-
Thanks for participating the game. We are in the process of notifying the winners. The winners will have 7 days to respond. If they do not respond within the 7 days, we will pick the next winner. Once we’ve completed verification, a list of winners will be posted at robobrawl.com.

I haven't been notified yet :-(

Nevermind :-)

i think the whole "avoiding a loss" thing is really lame, and totally cheating. if everybody wins every game, then it just becomes about who has more time to sit in front of their computer, and not about who is actually better at the game. that's not fun, it's stupid.
i have a really crappy computer, and the game crashed it so many times, but i kept going back, and now to find out that i never had a chance because all you jerkoffs were cheating anyway....it's just sad. you're pathetic people, and you should be ashamed.

We are happy to announce the following winners of our RoboBrawl Championship contest. The records of each of these winners have been verified to be legitimate to our best knowledge and each winner will be awarded an HP Workstation powered by Intel:

XeonPowered
Swannbot
WarriorNeos

Thank you all again for your ongoing support for the RoboBrawl game and contest. Your participation, along with many others, truly made the overall game and contest an enjoyable and rewarding experience for all.

Congrats XP and everyone, They tell you when your going to get your prize?

Other day found out Red Interactive created the game, Always liked their work..top notch stuff :)
Hope intel decides to do RoboBrawl 2, maybe some television promotion spots would bring in large numbers of players.

Still open to beta test it for ya :)