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Re: rtlToronto8 Events. Vote for them.
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Mon, 5 Mar 2001 22:52:08 GMT
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Heya,
I'm assuming that we're voting for basic ideas here, and that we're
going to refine the competition as we go... otherwise, I think we've
got a lot of discussing still to do.
Some comments:
Cartesian competition: This sounds like a lot of fun, but I bet we
can come up with a much better contest. The suggested contests have
an awful lot of loopholes in them, and I'd like to see something that
rewards clever building / programming, rather than clever loopholing
(And this is Mr. Loophole talking :)
Climb & Gather: Neat idea. Possibly difficult to execute, tho'
Maxwell's demon: We can always use butcher paper / mac-tac / whatever
to colour the field.
Dragstrip: I can design a 'robot' using 0 rcxes that could do this,
and have a good shot at winning, too. So could Iain, or lots of other
folks on this NG. That's not necc. a *bad* thing, but we might want
to include this just as an entry-level competition. Something that
kids who show up without a robot could aim to build in a morning.
Follow-the-line: I like this better, as a challenge. But how to
score robots that ignore the line and head for the finish directly?
I'd also like to put forward the "Confidence Course" variant to the race
game: Take Jin's concept of the Mindstorms box as a standard unit of
obstacle: Invent a course using one or more such boxes which need to
be overcome in certain ways. Publicize the exact course layout, and
your bot has to scale / jump / roll to victory. Fastest one wins,
and we can easily set up side-by-side courses.
I think I'd like to have a hand in writing the *exact* contest rules,
since we had a lot of confusion last time about what the exact rules
were (eg: Sumo backwards starts, etc) Most of these contests kinda
require size restrictions (ie: Cartesian "push" contest against a
wall of bricks the size of one side of the building...)
Jeff
Calum Tsang wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> I've collected four rtlToronto8 proposals and put them online at:
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> http://peach.mie.utoronto.ca/events/lego/lego-060901-rules.html
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> Send me an email with your vote for event A, B, C or D OR whether you would
> participate in a re-run of Blockstacking. Or, if you're crazy, you would
> built both an ABC or D event, AND a stacker.
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> Now go, read them, and email me. CC Chris and the group if you think I'm
> not an impartial election office and you don't trust me to count chads :)
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> Calum
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 | | Re: rtlToronto8 Events. Vote for them.
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| "Jeff Elliott" <jeffe@telepres.com> wrote in message news:3AA41898.9289FF...res.com... (...) That's why I think the scoring should be different. Robots who can stop the FASTEST after passing the line should be rewarded. IE, a robot who finishes in (...) (24 years ago, 5-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
| | | Re: rtlToronto8 Events. Vote for them.
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| (...) Yes. But the general concept I want people to vote for. We can tweak them as we go along. I'm encouraging people to show up this Friday, most of the building types will be there and I suspect rtlToronto8 will be a major topic of discussion. (...) (24 years ago, 6-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | rtlToronto8 Events. Vote for them.
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| Hi folks, I've collected four rtlToronto8 proposals and put them online at: (URL) me an email with your vote for event A, B, C or D OR whether you would participate in a re-run of Blockstacking. Or, if you're crazy, you would built both an ABC or D (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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