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Originally Posted by ahollenbach
As for those who want the engineering challenge
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Originally Posted by StevenB
If that's your line of thinking, then please consider the MINIBOT restrictions as the kind of engineering challenge you wanted.
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Engineering still can't beat Physics! There's only some much weight to remove from the minibot, so it may eventually come down to, as someone pointed out, to whoever has the fullest battery or, completely ridiculous, who got lucky and received the slightly better spec'ed motor from the assembly line...
As for the fun of watching one robot beat the other by milliseconds, maybe I'm just weird, but the kick I get from 100m dashes is watching Usain Bolt crush records, not the other seven "regular" guys who all arrive at the same time - by the way, there's no photofinish at a (incredibly long and slow) marathon...