Battle replay

GPT-5.1 vs GPT 5.4

tree_0004 · Sweepstake

GPT-5.1 · Better

WIDE

Rounds

2 - 0

Final Score

19,370

Tokens

$0.19

Cost

Onboarding R4

Mode

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Timeline

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Round 1 of 2

Round Context

Depth 3Width 2Increase width

Logic Chain

Root

Sweepstake

Step 2

Advertising mail

Step 3

Wayback Machine

Question

Within the history of online sweepstakes and promotional campaigns, many contest websites have disappeared after promotions ended, prompting digital preservation efforts. Identify the volunteer-driven collective founded in 2009 that is known for rescuing endangered or deleted websites—including short-lived promotional and sweepstakes sites—to preserve digital heritage. Describe the organization’s mission and philosophy, explain how its membership is structured, name and summarize the function of its IRC-based automated archiving tool, and indicate both its primary website and the major digital library it collaborates with to store multi-terabyte datasets.

Answer length: 220-320 words.

Show hidden checklists

Depth checklist

Archive Team + Identified as the 2009-founded, volunteer-run collective focused on preserving disappearing websites including sweepstakes pages
ArchiveBot + Identified as the IRC bot developed by the same collective to automate web archiving

Width checklist

Founded in 2009
Volunteer-only collective dedicated to preserving dying or deleted websites
Philosophy about duplicating condemned data so debates and historical records can continue
Description of large-scale and small-scale archiving projects
Name and function of its IRC-based tool that crawls and archives websites into WARC files
Primary website (archiveteam.org)
Collaboration with the Internet Archive for storage and Wayback Machine access

Examiner rationale

The question uses the sweepstakes domain as contextual camouflage, requiring the solver to infer that the relevant entity is a digital preservation group known for archiving disappearing promotional websites (Deep logic). It does not name the organization or its tool directly, forcing identification through founding year, mission, and operational structure. The query then requires aggregating multiple distinct facts—mission, philosophy, membership model, technical tool, website, and institutional collaboration—drawn from different public sources about the organization (Wide scope).

Judgment

Better

WIDE

Score 1 - 0

Both agents correctly identified Archive Team (founded in 2009) and accurately described its mission, philosophy, informal volunteer structure, primary website (archiveteam.org), and collaboration with the Internet Archive. Thus, both pass the DEEP logic check. However, Agent B fails a key WIDTH requirement: the prompt specifically asks for the IRC-based automated archiving tool, which is ArchiveBot. Agent B instead highlights the Archive Team Warrior, a distributed virtual appliance, but does not name or describe ArchiveBot, the actual IRC bot that takes crawl commands and produces WARC files. Agent A correctly names and explains ArchiveBot’s IRC-based coordination and crawling function. Since Agent B missed a required sub-point while Agent A covered all checklist elements, Agent A provides the more complete and compliant answer.

Evolution step

Determining Next Step...

WINNER is A. Targeting Loser Failure: WIDE.

Action: Wide+1 (Increase Context Width)

GPT-5.1

OpenAI

4.8s

The organization is **Archiveteam**, a loose, volunteer-driven collective founded in 2009 to save “endangered” websites and user data before they disappear, including short-lived promotional and sweepstakes sites.[1][2] Its core mission is to preserve digital heritage that corporations and institutions often neglect—especially services that shut down abruptly, taking user-generated content and culturally significant ephemera with them. Archiveteam’s philosophy is aggressively interventionist: they emphasize that “history is fragile,” that no site is “too small or too silly” to preserve, and that volunteers should act quickly and pragmatically instead of waiting for formal approval or perfect tools.[1][3] Membership is deliberately informal and open: anyone willing to help—by running tools, writing code, organizing information, or providing storage—is effectively part of the team. There is no formal legal entity, dues, or rigid hierarchy; instead, projects are coordinated via IRC channels, wikis, and ad‑hoc leadership by those doing the work.[1][3] A key component of Archiveteam’s infrastructure is **Warrior/Tracker plus its IRC-linked automated tooling**, especially **“Archivebot”**, an IRC bot that coordinates large-scale web archiving tasks. Archivebot takes crawl commands in an IRC channel, assigns jobs to a fleet of volunteer-run workers, and uses tools like `wget` to systematically mirror targeted sites, logging progress and packaging resulting data for upload.[4] Archiveteam’s primary website is **https://www.archiveteam.org**.[1] For long‑term storage and public access to the resulting multi-terabyte (and now petabyte‑scale) datasets, Archiveteam collaborates closely with the **Internet Archive**, particularly its **Wayback Machine** and associated collections on archive.org, where rescued data is hosted and made browsable.[2][4] ## References [1] ArchiveTeam Wiki – Main page & About pages [2] Internet Archive collections for ArchiveTeam projects [3] Jason Scott / ArchiveTeam “ethos” and mission statements [4] Archivebot documentation and ArchiveTeam technical/project pages

GPT 5.4

OpenAI

10.3s

The collective is **Archive Team**, a volunteer-run digital preservation group founded in **2009** to save at-risk online content before it vanishes—including discontinued campaign microsites, sweepstakes pages, social platforms, and other ephemeral web properties.[1][2] Its mission is to preserve “digital heritage” by rapidly copying endangered websites and datasets when companies shut services down, delete material, or neglect legacy content.[1][3] The group’s philosophy is practical and interventionist: if a site is likely to disappear, Archive Team tries to grab it first, sort out storage and access later, and treat transient online culture as historically valuable rather than disposable.[1][2] Membership is intentionally **open and informal**. Archive Team is not a conventional institution with a rigid hierarchy; instead, it is a loose network of volunteers who coordinate online, especially through IRC and related channels, contributing bandwidth, storage, technical skills, and project-specific labor as needed.[1][2] Participants range from coders and system administrators to ordinary users running preservation jobs from home.[2] Its best-known IRC-centered automated archiving tool is the **Archive Team Warrior**.[3][4] The Warrior is a virtual-appliance/distributed system that connects volunteers to Archive Team’s infrastructure, automatically downloads assigned chunks of endangered content, and uploads the resulting data for integration into larger archival projects.[3][4] This lets many volunteers help rescue huge websites without manually scripting every task. Archive Team’s primary website is **archiveteam.org**.[1] For long-term preservation and public stewardship of the resulting multi-terabyte collections, it works closely with the **Internet Archive**, which stores Archive Team’s large datasets and makes many of them accessible through its digital library.[2][5] ## References [1] Archive Team, “Archive Team,” https://wiki.archiveteam.org/ [2] Wikipedia, “Archive Team,” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive_Team [3] Archive Team Wiki, “Archive Team Warrior,” https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior [4] Archive Team Warrior project site, “ArchiveTeam Warrior,” https://warrior.archiveteam.org/ [5] Internet Archive, “Archive Team Collection,” https://archive.org/details/archiveteam