MINI SUMO and BIPEDS

[tony wilcox]

Hi anyone involved with the named beasts

- a reminder that you are all welcome at UK Micromouse 2010 on Saturday 26th June at Millennium Point.

www.tic.ac.uk/micromouse

As per previous years I will make space available for demonstrations or your own competitions.

If readers of this could please spread the word I would be grateful - the more we have at UKMM2010 the better.

Tony

[slurp]

I'm looking forward to the weekend, I think we'll see at least 6-8 minsumo

Best regards,
Colin

[tony wilcox]

Hi Colin

Thats sounds really good - I'll make sure you have an appropriate area. Please come see me if you are running a competition and we'll make sure we fit it in to the schedule so that all can watch.

Regards

[slurp]

Having fought with Windows Movie Maker, giving freezing videos and outputs that don't match the preview (must find a good alternative!), but I've now uploaded what was recorded at the event - most but not all of the minisumo competition:-

http://vimeo.com/13346911

Vimeo allows for longer videos than youtube

If you want to jump straight to particular rounds there's a time line and comentary here:-

http://www.minisumo.org.uk/wiki/index.php?page=UKMM2010

I'd hope next year we can go for a more challenging starting position, one where we need to hunt out the opponent.... something get the brain cells really working on the code and challenge the sensors!

Best regards,
Colin

[gbulmer]

Colin, thank you for posting the Mini-Sumo video. It was a great event!

If I may offer a thought for next year. Ask the camera-operator to try to get a few shots of the crowd. I was impressed by the number of children watching, and their rapt attention to the competition. I enjoyed it a lot, and they seemed to find it even more exciting than me.

Well done to you and your camera-operator, and well done to all the competitors. Fabulous fun!

GB