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How the game might turn out to be...
Posted by Ken Leung at 1/8/2001 11:20 AM EST


Student on team #192, Gunn Robotics Team, from Henry M. Gunn Senior High School.


In Reply to: Want a real-world tournament comparsion to this year's game?
Posted by Nate Smith on 1/8/2001 7:42 AM EST:



: One thing that popped into my head yesterday as I was thinking of how to explain this year's game competition...and I thought that while in the past, the competition was similar to the head-to-head sports, this year seems to be more similar to a golf tournament...while you don't directly compete against the other teams, thereby eliminating defense, you're still competing against everybody for the best score...just my thoughts...

I see lots of people compare this game to golf, but I think at golf, there are so many variables that the player usually do not reproduce the same result. But in here, if you have a perfect robot, then once your alliance find the best strategy, you are going to do it all the time. And so, once you are in the finals with your partners, all you have to do it play a few games and everyone will know what's the capability of your alliance, and will be able to tell who's going to win. So the games will be too boring to watch, which is what lots of people complaining about instead of saying how the competition isn't interesting.

But of course, at qualifing rounds, you will have random partners, inperfect robots, and the competition will actually be fun.

So I think when judging this year's game, you have to think about design of the game and the turn-out of the game seperatly.


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