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Re: Robot Competition at BrickCon 2010
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lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:24:13 GMT
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In lugnet.events.nwbrickcon, David Schilling wrote:
This year's robot competition at BrickCon will be a racing competition. Build
and program a robot able to race around an irregularly shaped gradient track
while avoiding obstacles on the track. [...]

Here are the results of the Robot Racing competition:

Michael Schumacher Award (first place): Gus Jansson  -- total time: 8:10
Jeff Gordon Award (second place): Steve Putz  -- total time: 9:13
Dale Earnhardt Award (third place): Heidi Lovett  -- total time: 10:55

Special awards were also given out for special achievements.

Smokey Yunick Award (most innovative): Heidi Lovett
Kimi Raikkonen Award (hard luck): Mark Kenworthy
Paul Tracy Award (best crash): Doug Bell
John Force Award (funniest): Richard Mussler Wright

The Jacques Villeneuve Award wasn't given due to the lack of participants.
Perhaps next year?

Steve Putz has posted a couple of videos on youtube:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B--pNfIryJI
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SRS_P4KmU

Thanks to everyone for participating, and Steve for posting the videos.

--
  David Schilling



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