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assassin
Joined: 27 Jun 2004
Posts: 1105
Location: SunshineCoast
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@assasin - waiting for the last 30 seconds is not a good idea unless you are likely to score a knockout - the judges are supposed to consider the entire match, not just a last minute frenzy by one bot. In practice a strong finish may sway the judges a bit, but its not supposed to.
after we decided to have the judges keep their actual points secret and just award "higher damage" to Bot A or Bot B, the amount of actual damage became irrelevant, it is simply a matter of who did *more* damage than the other. If its scratches vs none, then scratches win the damage point.
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Just my view on things:
The last 30 seconds thing was part of my whole 3 min strategy, conserve power and try and be on par with points. Then working with how well I know the bot, feel and time my last full burst of aggression and swing the match my way(the crowd would like that too!). This is the best time to put your energy into full on attack because you have had 2 and a half minutes to warm up and get into the zone! The main things that went wrong were I didn't know how much time was left(I also asked) and I didn't have a good feel for how long 3 mins was @ Robowars 4 for some reason.
Maybe I make things I little complicated(thats just me), what I now need to do is the same but leave a greater room for error to help the judges.
I don't have the probs with the judges and I know they will consider the entire match, I do have an issue with a comment made earlier about judges being influenced by previous battles thou.
....Arh running out of time....
in short.....I think the control in the match was far more one sided to Eleanor and many would agree......need more time to explain....
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"sitting still and waiting for your opponent to drive into your weapon does not count for aggression points" - this would seem to apply to a stationary wedge to me, since the wedge is the weapon, so even if the attacker is merely launching off the wedge, it is still considered aggression.
I agree with that, thats cool....but if you look @ the vid I guess my loophole plan to that was to move towards Reboot(even if I was slow) when he attacked eg I tried to NEVER be still when he attacked me! I think I was a bit slow once or twice thou from memory and didn't move.....gottogo _________________ Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein.
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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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As far as the RoboWars judging is concerned, there is no weighting on any of the DCAS categories.. The order I mention them is random acording to whether I type DCAS, DCSA or whatever at the time.
Prior to RoboWars 4, the actual points assigned by each judge were counted, making it possible for a judge to weight the categories according to their preference by for example only assigning 2 points for style but 10 points for damage.
but Robowars 4 onwards, the "final output" from each judge that is tallied up is simply "Robot A was more aggressive, Robot B had more style, Robot A did more damage, Robot A had better control", which removes any judge-biased weighting of categories.
Of course the hard part is making sure that the non-competitor judges (Marc DeCarlo and Mark Nauman (Sidetracked) are up on the nuances of judging that we all discuss here.. Hence the judging guidelines sheet rather than the gut-feel approach
The competitors would probably make better judges than trying to explain all this to non-competitors, but then you get into State Bias and other messy areas.
If anyone wants to volunteer to be the judge-dave of Australia and fly around to all the events but not compete, just let me know.. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:36 am |
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