Re: [Botzilla-discuss] What is the status of Tuesday's Tournament ?

[<meo...@ju...>]

We had a discussion about this in the CF-18 lab.

The golf ball machine was just too complex.  There were basically no rul=
es surrounding the machine.  This made the scope and complexity very, ve=
ry interesting.  Who has the time to build such a machine?
I could argue that you could take a "slingshot" and drop 100 balls on th=
e target and still be within the rules.

Your contest was very, very interesting, however, it takes time to code =
and develop a bot.  Some weeks this can be very easy....other weeks, you=
 barely have time for your family.  I was very interested in it, but the=
 time crunch got me really quickly.  Plus given I had the complexity of =
creating a Linux partition killed my effort.

To have a successful contest it must be:
1) Simple (everyone can enter it)
2) Done in a few weekends or hours (though some will always spend more)
3) Interesting

A balance of all these can be very hard to achieve.

I liked the idea of getting teams together.  If we could organize the co=
ntests in the late fall (i.e. USN F/18 versus CF-18 versus HACTS versus =
F/16 versus F-22, etc.)  There could be time to develop and organize the=
 effort.  Also if you sucker them in early, you can make them pony up so=
mething significant (like lunch for the winning teams).  =



I would love to be involved in the next year effort (planning, etc).

cjs


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