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Re: rtl 13 Pics and Video
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Tue, 25 Mar 2003 02:22:45 GMT
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Iain Hendry wrote:

I'm sort of thinking that no one's addressed the issue of bringing rice out
onto our side of the feild, so there's no penalty thus far for bringing rice
out.


I was actually more concerned about rice gumming up the works in a bot
(like Bruce said) than about penalties. I don't see why there should be
any penalty for bringing rice out, and as you said, it would be hard to
measure the rice. We'll just have to have a brush and dustpan on hand,
for cleaning up between matches.


These are things we argued at dinner, and I think we all agreed that we'll
count the blocks within the "negative space" (Not-bin space, [-shaped),
since if you say "Within the robot" you have to decide what's a bin, it
limits the design to HAVING a bin, etc.....  you'd impose a design
restriction based on a scoring method.


Not-bin space? You mean, we would count the blocks that aren't in the
bin and are on your side of the playfield?



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  Re: rtl 13 Pics and Video
 
"Trevyn Watson" <4tee2@rogers.com> wrote in message news:HCA9B2.toy@lugnet.com... (...) Right! That way you have to do work to gain a score; if we counted the blocks that were left in teh bin and nobody touched anything, there's a very likely (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: rtl 13 Pics and Video
 
OK, why must RTL member always try to make these games to be more difficult than they really are. Trevyn. here's, the scoop. -we take the play field -we fill the inverted "hill" with rice. -inside the rice we hide 20(?) black and 20(?) white (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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"Trevyn Watson" <4tee2@rogers.com> wrote in message news:HCA7o3.poz@lugnet.com... (...) I'm sort of thinking that no one's addressed the issue of bringing rice out onto our side of the feild, so there's no penalty thus far for bringing rice out. (...) (22 years ago, 25-Mar-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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