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Re: Mr Nibbles! was Re: What is shaping up to be the most posted-on rtl event in the history of rtl
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Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:40:01 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote:

I think I have enough balls already.  Each soccer bus (eight copies), grandstand
(like...14 copies), playfield (1 copy) came with a pile of them.  I can lend
them out to those who don't have the balls to do it themselves.

I fail to see why we need soccer balls... not marbles?

(Soccer Balls are both black and white, adding unnecissary complexity to a
marble harvesting robot, and omiting any rules or additional challenges you
might be able to add based on ball colour)

    Iain



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  Re: Mr Nibbles! was Re: What is shaping up to be the most posted-on rtl event in the history of rtl
 
(...) Because they are, get this, Lego! And are therefor standard and uniform and everybody would have the same thing to work with. (...) Agreed, but I'm sure soccer balls and basket balls would show up different. This just means you have to spin (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
  Re: Mr Nibbles! was Re: What is shaping up to be the most posted-on rtl event in the history of rtl
 
(...) I ahve a 4 foot x4 foot arena. We could potentially run two different types of matches at the next rtl event. Marble sorting in a small playfield, so that we would have to scale our 'bots accordingly--say your 'bot can't be bigger than 8 (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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  Mr Nibbles! was Re: What is shaping up to be the most posted-on rtl event in the history of rtl
 
(...) I think I have enough balls already. Each soccer bus (eight copies), grandstand (like...14 copies), playfield (1 copy) came with a pile of them. I can lend them out to those who don't have the balls to do it themselves. I'm sure you have a (...) (21 years ago, 18-Sep-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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