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My colleague, Jan Beyer has asked me to pass along word of something cool he’s
working on.
As he works to help community build and spread even further in Europe, he was
thinking it might be fun to pull together an AFOL Mindstorms competition. Sorta
like a one-time First LEGO League for AFOLs.
If you’re interested, the details are below. We’d love to hear you feedback and
ideas.
Jake
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Jake McKee
Community Liaison
LEGO Community Team
Dear LEGO and Mindstorms enthusiasts,
As announced previously, we have have been thinking of doing an AFOL LEGO
Mindstorms tournament in the LEGOLAND Billund/Denmark. Now we are ready to plan
on an event.
Place: LEGOLAND Billund
Date: 2nd /3rd or 9th /10th April 2005 (we’d like to hear your feedback which
day fits best for you)
Minimum number of teams: 6 otherwise we will cancel the
tournament
Minimum number of participants in each team: 3 persons
Last day for firm application: 1st February 2005
You will get the needed information about the game 2 weeks before the tournament
begins, so you can start working at home but you will get a normal LEGO
Mindstorms kit from us in Billund so you are not allowed to take any of your own
Mindstorms parts with you but you are more than welcome to take some of your
MOCs with you we can show off if you like.
Here is the agenda for the championship days:
Day 1, Saturday
14:30 Welcome in the LEGOLAND Billund. Each team will get a normal LEGO
Mindstorms Set to use it in the tournament and will have access to a variety of
different LEGO bricks for design matter.
15:00 The challenge is announced, and you will have until 18.00 to build the
robot. During that time you can practice on the tournament table also, but only
one team a time.
18:00 LEGOLAND closes and the robot must stay at the table. We all go to dinner.
Day 2. Sunday
10:00 The LEGOLAND Park opens and you will have 2 hours to fine tune your robot.
You will again be able to practice at the tournament table.
12:00 The tournament begins.
13:00 Award ceremony and lunch
There will be prizes for the best working robot and the best designed robot and
every team can keep the Mindstorms set they’ve got from us.
So if you like to take part in this ultimate AFOL LEGO Mindstorms tournament and
compete against teams from other European AFOL communities and the LEGO All Star
team please register your team as soon as possible.
You need to pay for your travel and your Bed and Breakfast in Billund, while
LEGO will pay for the food and beverages on the two tournament days.
If you have further questions or if you want to register don’t hesitate to
contact me under jan.beyer@europe.lego.com.
I am looking forward to seeing you in Billund in April next year,
Jan
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| This sounds like a lotta fun, if not somewhat short notice. One critical question, regarding the competition itself: What is the programming environment? -Ted (...) (20 years ago, 23-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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| Jake McKee writes: > My colleague, Jan Beyer has asked me to pass along word of > something cool he's working on. > > As he works to help community build and spread even further in > Europe, he was thinking it might be fun to pull together an AFOL > (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.robotics)
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| (...) Jake/Jan Sounds cool. Sign me up. The software allowed is a big question. The other issue that could easily be a problem is "table time". With at least six teams, using one table, one at a time, it may be necessary to impose some kind of time (...) (20 years ago, 24-Nov-04, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
| | | AFOL Mindstorm competition in Billund
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| Jan Beyer has sent me an email with current details about the AFOL Mindstorms competition in Billund including what the date will be. He asked me to post it, and it's included below (formatting is his). The other thing he mentioned is that there are (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jan-05, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.robotics, FTX)
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