Thread: STOOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!! (please)
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Unread 09-01-2002, 16:22
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More competitive?
One point that could be made for disclosing designs and strategies would be to make the field more competitive, and give everyone equal footing.

Just think how much more competitive last year's competition would have been had the TechnoKats posted their awesome auto-balance software code during the first week.

If you think that nobody would have copied that code line for line, especially after seeing how well it worked, I believe you're a bit naive. Does it truly make the game better if everyone has the same robot?

One of the best things about this year's game is that the scoring is easier to understand, making it more enjoyable for the average person to watch. You lose that added enjoyment if it's a continued re-run of the same types of robots doing the same things over and over and over because everyone is using the same strategy.