And the winner is...

Bob!

Bob finally defeated RoboMarci who took the leadership over him at the 
end of last week. Bob was actually the original author of the first knee 
walking robot which was copied by many other competitors including 
RoboMarci. RoboMarci's author decided not to update his controller for 
the final (RoboMarci was #1 just before the finals) whereas Bob was 
updated. This was probably a very good choice for Bob!

The victory of Bob is very clear: he won the final 10-4.

RoboMarci did however a very good job. He is very efficient at pushing 
the other robot outside the stage, however, Bob showed us his new 
strategy: run away, avoiding the opponent and winning on the distance 
criterion! Bob is a very efficient racer! It is nice to notice that 
RoboMarci was winning 3-1 at the beginning, so if we didn't changed the 
scoring rule (extended from 3 winning set to 10), RoboMarci would had 
won the contest...

I would also like to congratulate FreeTime who achieved rank #3 with his 
newest version. FreeTime is the best ranked robot who doesn't walk on 
the knees. He is very efficient, however, not against Bob (the match
between Bob and FreeTime ended with a score of 10-1 for Bob). However, 
FreeTime will be a

It seems that Bob has a very good navigation algorithm allowing him to 
walk (on the knees) all around the ring in a very fast speed. FreeTime 
was confused about it and could not walk towards Bob as it was going too 
fast (that's actually funny to see FreeTime spining round in the middle 
of the stage trying to follow with the eyes the race of Bob all around). 
Bob won several times by having reached the longest distance from its 
initial position.

I would like to apologize to Kubiak who submitted me his newest 
controller Friday night be e-mail. I copied the files manually into his 
directory, but I forgot to change the file rights. The consequence was 
that Kubiak was unable to open some motion files and for example was 
unable to recover from down...

We may run an unofficial round today to see how Kubiak would have 
performed and maybe to see a nice match between FreeTime and RoboMarci 
which didn't occured yesterday... Of course the result of this round 
will be unofficial and won't change anything to the results. It is just 
a kind of compensation for Kubiak... ;)

I would like to thank all the competitors in this contest who spent a 
lot of time to develop their robot controllers and achieved very 
impressive behaviors for their robots. I hope all these developments 
could be easily reused in the next edition of this contest so that we 
don't restart from scratch and we will still progress towards even more 
impressive robots! Thanks to our sponsors: Cyberbotics, BIRG and K-Team.

The new contest will be called Roboka. The web site is almost finished 
and I encourage you to visit it, register your robot and upload your 
files! The rounds will start this month. We also appreciate any feedback 
on the presentation of the site: http://roboka.org

A question for Anders (Bob): could you send me your surface mail address 
so that we can ship you the Hemisson robot and Webots PRO package ? 
Could you also send me a digital picture of you I will display on the 
web site ? Thanks.

-Olivier


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