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Subject: 
Re: Fed UP with rtl
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Date: 
Mon, 19 Jul 2004 07:34:27 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote:
It's been rather dissapointing that over the last couple years at Brickfest, the
ONLY Mindstorms event anyone from rtl ever entered was the one event they
hosted.  (sorry, I should also count Rob's crevas crossing robot, which he
entered via proxy)  So, in the five Mindstorms events that weren't hosted by
rtl, there was exactly one entry from the "robot guys" in Toronto.

Seems the events at Brickfest were always "too easy".

Ah, nothing like flaming Steve with a complete lack of sleep!

I think the issue with BrickFest was that no one ever goes except for the crowd
that does non-robot stuff, ie, Derek, JeffVW, JeffE, DaveK etc.  It just happens
the train/models/events crowd is the same as the BF crowd, and the exact
opposite of the Rob etc crowd.

You'd probably realize that if for the fact you've always been an outsider
looking in. :)

Stick, prod...poke.

Calum



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(...) No, I guess I don't know who in the group does robots, and who doesn't. I actually assumed Derek did robots, because at rtl 15, he was the only person from Toronto who had a robot that could actually play Connect-Four. (Even if it was littered (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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(...) oh, just saving my breath. It seems the rtl events have really taken a turn for the worse. Six months ago, you guys were laughing at people who entered events like line-following or sumo. "What's an rtl event with zero participants; Line (...) (20 years ago, 19-Jul-04, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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