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Re: rtl 19 'Sumo on a stick' pictures
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Mon, 12 Sep 2005 01:31:54 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Greg Hyland wrote:
> So what I'm saying is
> let's try it again WITH some restrictions or requirements. Otherwise, Jeff
> putting a small little piece on one end if the wood and calling it a robot is
> totally valid... but NO! That's not in "the spirit of the competition!"
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> Otherwise, again, it's becoming a "look at me! I found a loophole in the rules!"
> competition.
I get ya. Well, if we did it, I want to do it as a sub contest, eg, on the side
the way we did marbles last time with DaveK. I think that went really well and
Chris kept the parts to the BoP balance.
If we are aiming for a "tougher" (eg, PX, C4) contest for January/February 06,
then this would be a perfect compliment to it. A lot of people missed out on
this or didn't realize just how much fun it would be or didn't quite finish in
time (eg, Mario)...
Calum
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| (...) Oog! I'm not saying that we should do a tougher competition, either (I thought we had some good ideas at dinner that night), but rather maybe competitions with a few more rules or requirements. Although I didn't enter (so who am I to (...) (20 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| (...) So, yeah... we did it without too many restrictions and we had some interesting things. I wasn't smart enough to come up with a simple non-powered ring mechanism that latches on to the middle bolt and mucks things up for big strong bots, so (...) (20 years ago, 12-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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