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Re: FLL not allowing NQC; Mindscript is allowed
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Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:47:30 GMT
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David Koudys wrote:
> the greater point was that when there are competitoins, there are rules to the
> competitions. These rules may seem arbitrary, but they also even the playfield
> for everyone. The participants in competitions must adhere to 'da rulz' as
> presented for the competition or be disqualified. The rules for FLL, as I
> understand here, state non-third party software. That encompasses NQC.
> Therefore, NQC cannot be used--it doesn't matter if it's comparable to what is
> allowed.
Just for the record, I agree completely with what you said... but to
that end, should a team be disqualified because they designed it in
MLCAD? Or should they be disqualified if one of the team members wrote
a computer program that could compute an optimal gear placement strategy
for accomplishing a particular task in a minimum area? In principle, I
can understand why people who think NQC should be allowed are objecting
to the degree they have been, but as you say, rules are rules.
> Now for rtlT, we always stated that only non-modified LEGO elements and regular
> construction techniques can be used.
Now this has me curious. What constitutes "regular" construction
techniques? More specifically, what construction techniques are
considered "irregular"?
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| (...) I wasn't stating that there was ranting and raving in this thread--I mentioned that hte kid ranted and raved when his top was disqualified. the greater point was that when there are competitoins, there are rules to the competitions. These (...) (20 years ago, 16-Mar-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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