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(...) Ow. :) Iain (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Dave's tears - R21 the results
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(...) We don't even have scales at work that go in p-p-p-p-uuunds!! What were we suposed to do. Honestly. Stupid non-metric rtlToronto. Hate. Iain (grumble @ non metric engineers) (18 years ago, 2-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlToronto22 Ideas?
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(...) Right. In a true competition, helping the robot should not be allowed. However adding this rule did not penalize a "good" robot in our event. It just prevented us from stopping games mid-way and saying "that cube is not flat. You lose. Game (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlToronto22 Ideas?
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(...) I'm beginning to like this idea too.. but maybe not have the "touching" rule? Eventhough there is a simple solution in programming to guarantee a tie, that assumes perfectly functioning mechanicals... which is rarely the case. Either way, I'm (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlToronto22 Ideas?
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(...) I can play five moves in 5.2 seconds... (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Good day! Turns out that there is an interest of Ontario LEGO builders in attending this year's Hobby Show at the International Centre in Toronto, Ontario. So here's a few prelims-- Those of you who were there last year may remember the soap opera (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.loc.ca, lugnet.loc.ca.on, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ham, lugnet.loc.ca.on.ott, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.org.ca.parlugment)
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| | Re: rtlToronto22 Ideas?
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snip> (...) I'm liking this idea--it combines the wonderfulness of 'anti-x' banter and the connect 4 logic. I'm in Dave K (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It was actually very successful, and fun. The thing we did to avoid ties was to have the time-to-play be the tiebreaker. (each pair played two games, and each robot went first, once) At the last minute, we decided to allow people to touch (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) It's already been done by another group: (URL) not sure how successful it was...Steve? Calum (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlToronto22 Ideas?
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(...) The problem with tic-tac-toe is we'll have a day full of ties. Now I'd love to build a tic-talc-toe playing robot. I was thinking of doing this with an NXT and design it so kids could play against it. But as a contest I can't see it working. (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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How about autonomous tic-tac-toe, since this competition is scheduled to be a little more complex, maybe we could run a tic-tac-toe game. It should be easier then connect four, so more people should be able to build for it. Vitali (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I think that may have been John's match against my robot.... oops.... It was one of the last matches... If I recall, it was a real tug-of-war, with about equal traction. Your bot was geared pretty fast, mine used one R/C motor, and 1:15 (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | rtl21, some post game analysis
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(URL) I decided yesterday to do some analysis on the number of "insufferable" throwdown posts versus actual performance. As you can see, the ratio of trashtalk to wins is about 1:1 for DaveK, and 2:1 for Chris. Winners like JohnG, Edward and Vitali (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Official scores from rtl21--Chris didn't win... again!!!!
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(...) Except in your run down of all the competitors, I didn't get disqualified and I beat you... Don't make me pull out some charts and graphs.... (...) Oh...now you've done it. (...) Part of the idea with not rerunning contests (at least simple (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Official scores from rtl21--Chris didn't win... again!!!!
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(...) I PROTEST EVEN MORE!!!!! If this was a real game run by competent people, then the following would have happened: Chris - Disqualified for an over weight robot cause he used an inaccurate scale to weight his bot, and used that as an excuse to (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I see where this logic goes wrong... I assume you're suggesting Calum should do more of the work. (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I PROTEST!!!!! if this was a real game organized by competent people, then the following would have happened. John G - Disqualified for re-building his bot once he saw that other bots had a strategy to defeat his bot. Ed- Disqualified for (...) (18 years ago, 1-Aug-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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Hmm, I didn't know you could melt a polarity switch. Hmm. Iain (18 years ago, 27-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: rtlToronto22 Ideas?
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(...) That would be a really neat competition...especially the upturned car wrecks and all :) (...) Alas, I get you guys confused again. John's big on another RC racing, even if we keep the same "rules". Which we'll probably do. At dinner we talked (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, FTX)
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| | Re: Dave's tears - R21 the results
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(...) "Steve Hassenplug must not sleep very much. The Lafayette, Ind., software engineer is a member of the Lego Mindstorms NXT developer program, and even among the hard-core Lego fanatics on that team, Hassenplug is known for never letting time (...) (18 years ago, 31-Jul-06, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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