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Enfield Automatons Innovation 1st!
Enfield Automatons Innovation 1st!
10/17/20 At the Robofest World Championship awards ceremony Robofest announced a new category for Sr. Game. Due to the rules controversy and the team's innovation this new category recognized the team for the high score in the competition while not penalizing the other teams. Note the scores listed below as the team outscored the first place time by 8.5 points!
Enfield Automatons Controversy
Enfield Automatons Controversy
10/14/20 Robofest determined that the Enfield Automaton robot had an unfair advantage in the Sr. Game competition. Their scores will not count in the standard Sr. Game. Robofest officials were amazed with your innovation:
Dr. CJ Chung, founder of Robofest, had this to say on your out-of-the-box thinking::
"We were amazed at your team's idea of blowing air."
"We were amazed at your team's idea of blowing air."
Dr. Cartwright defended the "intent" of the rules and explained we were to follow the rules for real bowling and real golf while admitting that the rules were not clear.
"the rules state (not clearly enough, I am forced to admit) that the bottles must be knocked over by 'bowling'"
"the rules state (not clearly enough, I am forced to admit) that the bottles must be knocked over by 'bowling'"
Be proud of your accomplishment.
First Round Score: 112
First Round Score: 112
Second Round Score: 111
Second Round Score: 111
Average Score: 111.5
Average Score: 111.5
The rules committee won't allow the score to stand in the standard competition for thinking outside the box. Remember that finding the exception to the rules and thinking outside the box is a trait of WINNERS. Consider yourselves in the company of some historically great and competitive teams.
Team Penske Wins Indy 500
Team Penske Wins Indy 500
In the 1994 Indianapolis 500 Team Penske dominated the field with the PC-23 engine (you can read about it here). Basically the rules allowed for more turbo boost if you ran a pushrod engine. The INTENTION of the rule was to give an advantage to the teams that ran a stock pushrod engine. Team Penske exploited this loophole by designing purpose built pushrod engine. It met the rules but was not what the rules committee had intended! The result was that the Penske team lapped the entire field and won the race.
Henry "Smokey" Yunick
Henry "Smokey" Yunick
Henry "Smokey" Yunick is known for favorable interpretation of the rules and stories about Smokey are legendary in the motorsports area. Wikipedia has a good article. The rules committee intended to limit the amount of fuel on a vehicle by specifying the maximum size of the fuel tank.
The story goes that Smokey was getting much better fuel economy than any of his competitors. The rules committee were very suspicious that his fuel tank was of illegal size. They inspected his car very well and even removed the fuel tank to verify the size and determined it was legal. What they didn't know at the time was that Smokey used fuel lines that were 2 inches in diameter to run from the tank to the engine! The rules committee never intended for teams to keep an extra 5 gallons of fuel in the fuel lines but no fuel line size was specified in the rules! Obviously if he had asked he would have been told that large diameter fuel lines would not be allowed.
10/10/20 Enfield Automatons - Amazing ghosts in the machine show up! With grippers never failing in months and fresh batteries in the gripper the gripper controller developed Parkinson's disease during round one and dropped the ball not once but twice during the round! Valiant efforts were made by Maria and Theodore to rebuild the motor mechanism during the work period during the second round. Amazingly the start and end tasks worked on the first try, but unfortunately the gripper fix didn't work. Still put up some great scores! Here's how the rounds should have gone with the griper fully working:
10/9/20 Camera Shy does well in first World Championship. Unlucky first round but the team had some fierce competition! Here's your amazing second round.
Congratulations for a 6th place finish!
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