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andrew
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 3110
Location: Castle Hill, Sydney. N.S.W
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yeah, today was sick, first event ive been in all year and what a absolute blast
some amazing matches, ALOT of people and all round an awesome day
orbit came second, couldnt be happier, it shows the poor things still got some life in it yet
first match against deathwish-first hit put a huge gash above saw balde and he lost power
second match against jasons rambot i was able to pop it up a lil bit and make it jump a lil then got a grab and flipped it over and lid and some guts fell out
third match against cyborg-cyborg held up soo damn well, i basically did nothing to it, was thrown off the back and almost flipped a few times and got a grab in and luckily it flipped
against snack machine-this was the fight i was waiting for, a weopond machine and one of the best in the game doing very well at last two events, we went at it hit for hit, blade to blade, was so intense, in the end i broke some strenghening bits off front and got a hit on pulley/belt and he put some nice ships in front and crakced the pulley near in half
with replacement pulley on i faced stealth and was doing well and he got in and i was upside down, such a lame way to end the day but all credit to stealth, its still got it even though iot had half its armour hanging off
also for grudge match i faced death wish again- got in some good hits, wedges him around a lil his saw cut intothe garolite lid a lil bit which was alright, in th end i tyore off front panel almost and threw it against the front wall, a end of match orits belt fell off for some reason and hung there rattling round then got spat out the back end across the arena, a very hularious way to end the day
all round very happy and will fix up the parts that need fixing and just keep this going again for meantime while i work on other projects (and thanks to parts from nick some beetles very soon as well me hopes ;p) _________________ Andrew Welch, Team Unconventional Robotics
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Sat May 12, 2007 11:36 pm |
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Nick
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 11802
Location: Sydney, NSW
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Daniel: you have missed something along the way - at an individual fight level, nothing has changed, although we are not scoring individually on aggression / damage / style like some other comps. Each fight is decided on it's own merits, as voted by five judges. To my mind, the simple win/lose score is mostly psychological, plus its handy for your bot ranking system; the numerical score is what I watch to see how I am placed against the other competitors.
I probably shouldn't put NSW's foot in it's mouth on this, but here goes: we have what starts out as a regular round robin competition. After about four rounds, we have an elimination style round between the top placed bots. In order to pick the final round without having gone through a full round robin session, we have judges who assign a single score from 0 to 9 plus a win/lose for each bot.
The score number does not have to reflect who won (as mentioned) although it mostly does. The judge's scores are averaged for the match and Jake tells me the spread is usually quite small, meaning that the judges are in agreement. When we run out of time for more round robin matches, the scores for each bot are averaged and the top bots have semifinal and final matches to get official places.
Compared to a full round robin, this system is less accurate at picking the best bots, simply because every bot can't get to fight every other bot. In a full round robin the scoring is based on a simple win/lose score and the bot with the most wins would win the event. In our partial round robin system, the averaged score compensates for not fighting every other bot - we get a pretty good prediction of how a particular bot would have performed if it had gone more rounds.
I am sure that people could poke all sorts of holes in this and you simply have to be here to see how it runs. Suffice to say that it must be working as there have been no hissy fits about placings. Jake & Russel have a neat computerised scoring system that takes care of the maths and in the end, we get more fights than we would in double elimination, so everyone goes home happy.
Jake will be able to comment on the technicalities. If he says anything different to the above, his version is right. _________________ Australian 2015 Featherweight champion
UK 2016 Gladiator champion
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