Competition Documents File Size Discrepancy

[Greg Ross]

Did anyone else notice that the advertised file size for the "The Awards" document doesn't match the size of the file they downloaded? The file I downloaded is 338 KB!


From http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/doc_updt.htm:

2004 Competition Documents

Section 1 - Introduction (pdf - 32 KB)

Section 2 - Communication (pdf - 70 KB)

Section 3 - The Arena (pdf - 160 KB)

Section 4 - The Game (pdf - 185 KB)

Section 5 - The Robot (pdf - 242 KB)

Section 6 - The Kit (pdf - 98 KB)

Section 7 - The Tournament (pdf - 58 KB)

Section 8 - The Awards.pdf (pdf - 74 KB)

[FotoPlasma]

It's now listed as 338KB on FIRST's website.

[Greg McCoy]

I think it's funny that that's the biggest section in terms of file size. You would think that the game or robot sections would be bigger than the awards section :D

[mtaman02]

I think it's funny that that's the biggest section in terms of file size. You would think that the game or robot sections would be bigger than the awards section :D


hrm thread# 3 that i post what im gonna say :D
i think these manuals are decoys
i don't know y but the file size is smaller by a big margin from where it should be (estimating at least 600 kb and up) these files contain clowns and the word troll with a bunch of empty pages in between.

[Jack]

now if first wanted to get really honkey donkey.. they'd have a md5 hash of the file so that people could verfiy that the file they were downloading was correct / a file from a mirror was correct. :)