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Re: What is shaping up to be the most posted-on rtl event in the history of rtl events....
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Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:02:25 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:
> In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, David Koudys wrote:
> , "Hey, my 'bot could do better if I changed this or
> > that" and the competitor would go home and change this or that and come back to
> > the next competition to see how the improvements functioned. As well, other
> > people who didn't enter a 'bot in the first competition could see how it may
> > have been attempted and then go home and build an entry for the next
> > competition.
>
> Yeah, then that would be like sumo-it'd get boring.
Sure it would--after 3-4 times--but we're not running these events twice in a
row right now. I'd like to see us run some of these events twice--the rice game
would be ideal for that.
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> > That said, the 'rice game' could be an event that could be redone, and there may
> > be more entries the next time it's attempted (seeing as how I ahve no weddings
> > on the 31st of January).
>
> I think you'll hear a resounding "But really? No!" if you suggest we redo Rice,
> because that's the answer I got when I asked people to redo rice for the
> November Hobby Show.
We need something reasonably exciting for the November show--RC would be okay.
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> > Where Connect 4 is concerned, I think it'd be an interesting game, but like
> > Bruce, I have doubts about the 'entertainment' value (not that everything
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> I recognize the game will be long. In Bruce's opinion, he figures anything from
> 15-35 minutes a match IIRC. Where I think entertainment value might come in is
> being able to play the robots.
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> One idea I had was to have at least one fully working robot on one end of the
> room for kids to play, while having two "live competition" matches playing on
> the other end.
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> The problem with this is there's usually no one always ready for
> playing--everyone's always tweaking something. So as a result, we need someone
> with an always working bot who doesn't want to be supercompetitive. Plus
> someone who's public-friendly who wouldn't mind showing library patrons how the
> robot works and keeping them from breaking it.
>
> Calum
We shall see if I can get one going in the first place. Then we go from there
Dave K
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