Asking for Merit makes it highly unlikely you'll receive any.

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Since the new features were released, this thread is more or less useless It's much easier to share bots on the site, which also shows the success of each bot (as a percentage of the amount won or lost).
The success of each bot largely depends on your opponents. It's not possible to create one bot that always wins. For instance, if all opponents use an aggressive strategy, you can't win if you're not aggressive too. But when 3 aggressive bots play against 3 "peaceful" bots (which means they only Drown players after they were drowned), the peaceful bots win!
That makes it necessary to use different bots for different scenarios, and adjust your bot settings when your opponents change theirs.
At the moment, the best strategy is to win the contest: create a bot that has the best win percentage in 1500 rounds.