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Re: Kickoff Procedure?
In the past, 1379 has had a few go to the local kickoff hosted by SPSU (about 30 minutes away) with the rest watching the webcast from the school, and then we spend Saturday analyzing and starting to brainstorm. This year we're changing things around a little and having people watch the webcast together, get a copy of the critical sections of the rules (Game/Arena/Robot), and then come back Sunday afternoon to start brainstorming. This allows the team leaders to bring the KoP back to school and inventory/organize and at the same time gives everybody a chance to full read the rules before starting any work. That (hopefully) eliminates brainstorming ideas like "If we make a wedge on the bottom of the robot, we can flip the other bots over."
That's the idea, at least. If nothing else, it's one last night of possible sleep before my brain gets totally overloaded with robot ideas.
I like some of these ideas about simulating the game. Strategy has always been one of our weaknesses in the past.
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