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Posted by soap108 at 04/20/2001 9:39 PM EST


Engineer on team #108, SigmaC@T, from Dillard & Taravella HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: Hard to explain? Yes...that's why they need to SEE it...
Posted by Nate Smith on 04/19/2001 11:22 PM EST:



...not too hard to explain, but, yeah, video helps a LOT!

Many co-workers and managers stop by my office (which is well FIRST decorated) and ask how we did and what the bots had to do.

My first step is to pull up a quicktime of a high scoring match from Chicago or Einstein since they have the cool color-bar that shows time&multiplier. Also the high scores demonstrate most features of the scoring.

As the match plays I point out some of the features...
When the clock stops I explain the scoring and it isn't difficult at all.

Example:
10 points each for robots in endzone and for each bb on the goal, and looks like about 10 small ball in the goal for another 10 points.
10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60. 60 points.

Then there's multipliers...
Each goal balanced on bridge is x2.
Time left is in the x2.5 range.

You just watched a 60 x2 x2 x2.5, or 60 x10, a 600 point match.

Oh well,
KA - 108



: I'll agree that the game was a little hard to explain(I had a drawing of the field that I used whenever I tried explaining it)...but one thing that I found was no matter how confused they were when I was explaining it to them, once they actually saw the game played, they could understand it...

: Nate