Re: Finals results!

Congratulations to the winners !!!, good job.

I am waiting for the next contest !!!.

GLadiator.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Olivier Michel" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:17 PM
Subject: [webots-contest] Finals results!


> Hi,
> 
> The finals took place last Saturday in Yverdon-les-bains closing this
> second edition of the Roboka contest.
> As you could see in live and can see now on the hall of fame, the winner
> is BobII (Anders and Johan from Sweden).
> ChuckNorris could climb up to rank #3 instead of KaI, otherwise, the
> hall of fame remained unchanged.
> The new tactic of BobII surprised many of us (including me). This
> marathon-man technique also puzzled Toddler who could not react
> appropriately. That was a bit frustrating to watch this last match of
> the finals, but also interesting to see that such a tactic was
> apparently not implemented by any contestant prior to the finals.
> Although it is not agressive, it is clearly a winning strategy in the
> short term. Indeed, I believe that Toddler (or any other robot) could
> have been easily improved to prevent his opponent from using this
> tactic, but he had to know it before...
> 
> Anders and Johan surprised us also last year when they discovered that
> walking on the knees was a very efficient winning stragegy (and they
> actually won last year also).
> 
> Congratulations again to Anders and Johan!
> 
> And thanks for coming to Yverdon-les-bains! That was nice to meet you in
> person and that you could present BobII to the people attending the
> finals (about ~100 people were there).
> 
> I would like to thank all the participants of the contest. Although I
> had very little time to organize this contest, it was a great pleasure
> for me to see this tribe of robots evolving until what we have reached
> today. I believe the level of programming of the robot is pretty high
> and of scientific interest.
> 
> Maybe we would need more technical information / reference on the
> different techniques used throughout this contest than the simple
> description.txt file which is often too short. Maybe the documentation
> should be a (minor) criterion for victory...
> 
> Also, I appreciated Toddler's authors (Joel and Tim) who just published
> the source code of their robot controller on a nice web page giving a
> excellent overview of the program. That's a great spirit!
> 
> We are now thinking about the next edition of this contest. What should
> be changed, improved, etc. Any input is of course welcome. You can stay
> subscribed to this mailing list for further announcement on the upcoming
> new edition of Roboka.
> 
> Thanks again to every competitor!
> 
> 
> -Olivier
> 
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