Guess the Map 12: Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Hate Mercator

[Ferocitus]

Do the two colors show a greater/lesser relationship about the same topic?

Lightest = 1 "title", Mid = 2 "titles", Darkest = 3 "titles".

 

[Ferocitus]

Lithuania and Slovenia?

Yes. The old homeland is there, with Slovenia and some other lesser titans of the EU.

 

[Samson]

Lightest = 1 "title", Mid = 2 "titles", Darkest = 3 "titles".

I can only make out 2 colours.

[EDIT] And is it Taiwan and China have the same number of titles, or that they are the same country?

 

[tjs282]

I can only make out 2 colours.

Only Slovenia uses the darkest shade.

 

[Ferocitus]

I can only make out 2 colours.

Slovenia is the only one with 3 "titles".

[EDIT] And is it Taiwan and China have the same number of titles, or that they are the same country?

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha! Of course they should be, and will, one day, be the same country again.
But seriously...
1 each.

 

[Kyriakos]

Is it some contest where you can have no winner at times?

 

[Ferocitus]

Is it some contest where you can have no winner at times?

There have been winners every year since 2006. Prior to that there were no specific winners.

 

[Ferocitus]

Student teams are given standard, interchangeable components, e.g. promoters, terminators, and reporters.
They use those, and new ones of their own design, to create...

 

[warpus]

World Homemade Fleshlight Championship titles?

Some sort of student engineering challenge? Robot building?

 

[Kyriakos]

Robotics seems to be a good guess!
Although there's no Japan.

 

[Samson]

From the components they were given, I thought some biological programming / artificial life competition, but google is failing me.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Perhaps some lesser "world" prize given by a major prize giver. ie The Nobel Prize for writing assembly instruction.

 

[Ferocitus]

From the components they were given, I thought some biological programming / artificial life competition, but google is failing me.

I changed some "letter sequences" to stop googlisers like you.
But I'll give you the win anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Genetically_Engineered_Machine
Grand Prize Winners by Country - Undergrad.

 

[Birdjaguar]

cool map.

 

[Samson]

I changed some "letter sequences" to stop googlisers like you.
But I'll give you the win anyway.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Genetically_Engineered_Machine
Grand Prize Winners by Country - Undergrad.

Hey cool. Good game. Can I ask how you guys tend to make the maps? I am going to give R a go.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hey cool. Good game. Can I ask how you guys tend to make the maps? I am going to give R a go.

Here is the gist of it:

But be careful with the use of base - it's not always 10 or e.

 

[Samson]

Here is the gist of it:

But be careful with the use of base - it's not always 10 or e.

I think this looks a bit easier. Now I just need to decide what to plot.

 

[Samson]

Here we go. The greys are "None", "I do not have data" or "I made a mistake". I may post a new one if I fill in any of the holes.

Fixed some countries

 

[Birdjaguar]

Is it economic or culturally based?

 

[The_J]

Yellow's the least?