Battle replay

o3 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

tree_0003 · The 17 best photography websites

Gemini 2.5 Pro · Much Better

WIDE

Rounds

0 - 2

Final Score

428,330

Tokens

$4.28

Cost

Round 3

Mode

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Timeline

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Round 1 of 1

Round Context

Depth 2Width 2Mercy rule

Logic Chain

Root

The 17 best photography websites

Step 2

Pardon Our Interruption

Question

Identify the digital publication that features the specific articles 'The 17 best photography websites' and 'The best camera phones'. According to the technical support text found on this site's 'Pardon Our Interruption' automated blocking page, what are the three specific behaviors or configurations that might cause a user to be flagged as a bot, and which two specific browser plugins are cited as examples that might prevent JavaScript from running?

Answer length: 150-250 words.

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Depth checklist

Target Entity: Creative Bloq (Identified via the specific article titles)
Logic Proof: The agent must correlate both article titles to the single publisher 'Creative Bloq' to locate the correct site policy text.

Width checklist

Reason 1: User is a 'power user' moving through the website with 'super-human speed'
Reason 2: Cookies are disabled in the web browser
Reason 3: A third-party browser plugin is preventing JavaScript from running
Plugin Example 1: Ghostery
Plugin Example 2: NoScript

Examiner rationale

The provided source text consists of article titles and a bot detection error message. To strictly adhere to the 'ONLY based on provided text' rule without hallucinating the content of the articles (which is not present in the source), the question uses the titles (Deep Logic) to identify the publisher and requests the specific text of the error message (Wide/Specific Fact Retrieval) found in the source.

Judgment

Much Better

WIDE

Score 0 - 2

Both agents correctly identified the entity (Creative Bloq). However, Agent A failed the Ground Truth checklist regarding the specific text on the blocking page. The Ground Truth (and the actual site text) lists 'Disabled Cookies' as the second reason. Agent A incorrectly stated the second reason was 'JavaScript disabled' (which is actually a component of the third reason). Agent B correctly identified all three reasons, including the cookies issue. While Agent A had better formatting (bullet points), the factual error on a specific retrieval task makes it the loser. Accuracy is the foundation.

Evolution step

[GAME OVER] Mercy Rule Triggered (Diff >= 2.0)!

o3

OpenAI

14.7s

Creative Bloq, a design-and-visual-arts publication owned by Future plc, hosts both articles “The 17 best photography websites” and “The best camera phones”. According to the technical-support notice on Creative Bloq’s “Pardon Our Interruption” automated blocking page, a visitor may be flagged as a bot for any of these three reasons: 1. Navigating the site with “super-human speed” (i.e., unusually fast page requests). 2. Having JavaScript disabled in the web browser. 3. Running a third-party browser extension that blocks or interferes with JavaScript execution. The notice cites two specific extensions that can trigger the block: Ghostery and NoScript. [1][2] ## References 1. Creative Bloq – “The 17 best photography websites” (creativebloq.com/web-design/best-photography-websites). 2. PerimeterX/Creative Bloq “Pardon Our Interruption” page (creativebloq.com, automated block message).

Gemini 2.5 Pro

Google

17.9s

The digital publication featuring the articles "The 17 best photography websites" and "The best camera phones" is Creative Bloq [1]. According to the technical support text on this site's "Pardon Our Interruption" automated blocking page, a system designed to filter out bot traffic, there are three specific behaviors or configurations that may cause a user to be flagged. The first is browsing the website with "super-human speed" [2]. The second potential reason is that the user has disabled cookies in their web browser. Finally, the third cause identified is the presence of a third-party browser plugin that is preventing JavaScript from running correctly [2]. When detailing the third-party plugin issue, the support text cites two specific browser extensions as examples that might trigger the security measure. The two plugins explicitly mentioned by name are Ghostery and NoScript [2]. The page explains that these scenarios can make a legitimate user appear to be an automated bot to the site's security firewall. ## References [1] Creative Bloq. (2024). *Home Page*. Future US, Inc. [2] "distil_r_captcha.html". (2020, March 11). *GitHub Gist*. Retrieved from gist.github.com/origs/2de22c608d72651513a033b432a527f3.