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I'm sorry I missed the contest. I looks like everyone had a great time. From the pictures I saw a lot of really cool designs with some wonderful strategies. The simple ring that locked on the pivot was genius. If I had been able to participate I was (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Personally, I'd love to see something like this. In addition to myself, I know of at least four other builders who would be willing to travel the 10+ hours for a "good" game. Of course, I'm not sure what really makes a good game... While (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Steve Hassenplug wrote: <snip> (...) <snip> (...) I think this is a phenominal idea! Have a competition where there are two tasks. Your robot has to be designed to be able to do both Task A and Task B, but during the (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I think we can do both. Traditionally we alternate between "hard" and "easier" games. The hard ones are usually in February or January. (well PX and C4 were). We can at the same time run another event like Balance of Power as a side, the way (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) With the advent of "bonktron", and now this "mating robots" post from calum.... how about something like: -------warning------...ings------ warning---- some sort of mating game. your bot has a stack of 2x4 (coloured) bricks. your "opponent" or (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Chris Magno wrote: <snip> (...) So this would be played in an 8x8 arena, or even bigger 'cause of the number of robots... So each 'bot would be assigned a number and a colour the 2x4's (or even for simplicity sake) a 2x4 (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) We would also have to have some sort of ruling on 'bots that don't transfer blocks properly--I mean, I could build a 'bot that receives blocks rather nicely, but have a built in 50 (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Or, just have the score be a combination of how many colors you collected, AND how many other bots have a brick of your color. (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) well we COULD. or we do like we did with king of the hill. and have qualifying rounds. so your robot will be shown to work (not in your basement) on the day of the game to enter. I am starting to LIKE this idea. as with ALL rtl events we keep (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) WAIT.... lets make the score ONLY count if you actually PRESS one of your blocks WITH your mates BLOCKS. this way you have to decide if you WANT to share, OR keep YOUR block..... oh man..... WAIT.... we can comeup with some kind of "ID" AND if (...) (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Maybe the bot creator has to specify gender before the match, and there's a "male" winner and a "female" winner???? Do you allow for "hermaphrodite"????? ROSCO (19 years ago, 13-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) Some possible cooperative events: Relay race - possibly combine line folowing with passing a batton between robots once per lap, with the best combined team time the winner. Paired retrival - have two mobile bots locate a single target object (...) (19 years ago, 14-Sep-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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