Re: Finals round crashed

<[email protected]> (alais Kubiak) wrote:
> Hi

Hi.

[upload freeze]
> Yesterday I was in front of my computer waiting for the last moment to 
> do my upload, but since the server crashed I saw I wouldn't play so I 
> did not upload, thinking that the deadline was the end of the last 
> round... and now I learn that it is too late to upload !!

Don't be so sad. It is not as if your upgrade will be lost. 
Don't forget that a new year contest begin next week, so you 
will be able to upload your new code then.

Or may be the main point for you is to win the contest ? In 
this case, you may have to wait one year :)

> I really hope that my real version will play the last round because I 
> use a different strategy that I had kept for the last day. I'm very 
> sorry and I hope you understand my situation

I don't really understand why you have not just upload your 
code if it was ready. I see no reason to wait the last moment 
to do your upload, except having few extra hours to code.

In this case, I think it will be better for next contest to 
freeze the upload between first and last matches of the day.
This way, updates has to be done before the 2pm hour to be 
taken into account.

So, just to give the opinion of someone not involved in the 
actual top of fame : doing an exception for your new robot 
code would be, according to me, unfair.

> Good luck to everybody for the final fights !
> Xavier ( Kubiak )

Yeah ! And be ready for next roboka.org contest ! :)

I am just disappointed the end of this year contest occurs 
when robots have evolved to the knee walking. I have nothing 
against knee-walking. In fact, I find the idea quite good 
(well done Bob !), and as several robots are now using it, the 
winer will be the best knee robot. Hopefully, Bob has revealed 
it's strategy before the final day ;) which is according to me 
quite fairplay compared to realeasing it just the final day.

But knee-walking is child walk :)
And I am sure that this strategy will be rapidily obsolet, as 
soon someone released an efficient walk-on-feet robot :)
(my actual prefered is freetime one. I think it is the most 
actual evolved walking robot, it indeed seems to be the only 
robot with real time walk balanced compensation).

And I have never been so close to released my own wonderfull 
walking robot ;) ... even if it is not yet ready, turning my 
speech as some kind of vaporware :)

Bothari



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