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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Bruce Sheridan writes:
> What you’re suggesting is a scoring change, which is in fact a rule change.
> The time for this has passed. As a group, we have discussed the rules and
> the scoring. Now, with less than a week to go, I believe it would be very
> wrong to open the rules to discussion.
We're not going to change it now at a week before. rtl10 was designed from
the outset as a full bore, use whatever the heck you like competition. If
you had a eight barrel servo actuated robot mechanism driven by a 48 node
RCX processing cluster topped by a micromotor and a Paradisa fairy, you
could use it. There was absolutely no penalty in the beginning to use
multiple RCX/Scout/uScout hardware, and no reason why someone should feel
superior or disadvantaged by using only one RCX: As Bruce has noted, the
development effort for multi RCX implementations in software for
transmission and data representation protocols, plus synchronization and
timing, can easily equal out the hardware effort for what effectively
becomes pick and grab.
rtl10 was also the unique in that it's the first one which can't easily be
solved with a single RIS package, both in terms of parts and in terms of
RCXes. rtl10 was supposed to be an "Expert" challenge from the start-we'll
get back to simple games in the future.
> Lastly, in all the competitions that we’ve held, I think there was only one
> time that a dual RCX robot won. I certainly haven’t seen a pattern of
> multi-RCX robots dominating.
This debate is open for future rtlToronto events. When rtl11 rolls around,
it will be a technical autonomous challenge, and whether ot not we build
rules in for multiRCX 1/N scoring or award two first places due to French
collusion will be decided after rtl10, probably initially at the rtl10 post
event dinner (as traditional).
Calum
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