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OK, it was a good weekend for me (robot building wise)
for the first time ever i built a robot, THEN I built a "fake" test
robot that is nothing more then 4 motors and 4 wheels and a bulldozer
blade. designed to test the weak points of my robot.
As well, I have been in contact with several other people who are
building robots and they have come to similar robot strategy
conclusions.
this is what I learned:
Each match is supposed to be 3 min.
it would make a lot of tactical sense to build a robot that did nothing
for 2 and a half minutes and then in the last moments of the clock, get
to the top of the board.... and at the buzzer accept the tie and shared
points.
this is a valid strategy; I was going to use it myself
!!!!B U T !!!!!
because this game is going to probably have a larger than normal
audience of little kids, (due to the publicity of the library) Calum
and I got to thinking if this will lead to 2 min of boredom.....
without changing too much, could we reduce the time limit of the game
from 3 min to 1 min???? (or some other short agreed upon number)
YES i know that the game is only 5 days away.....
will this move, screw up a lot of people? will people have a valid
concern with this... I need to know ASAP.... if you cant post to lugnet
reply to this e-mail and i can re-post your thoughts to lugnet.
Chris
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| this just came in from Steve, and seems like a good compromise... other ideas floating about. Over all, any time limit changes should only affect a small part of programming. not a major redesign of your robot. ---...---snip---...--- Chris, Here's (...) (22 years ago, 10-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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