From: Greg Coit <gregcoit@...>
Date: 2006-04-28T08:19:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to stir conversation in the rrobots community

Simon,

No blame to take - the game is great and a nice challenge, but real
work always takes precedence.

Thanks for the offer of the tournament, I'd love to participate.  Any
rules are ok with me, as this is all a learning experience for me.

Greg

On 4/27/06, Kroeger, Simon (ext) <simon.kroeger.ext@siemens.com> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> well there was some talk about new feature in february but all
> in all you are right. This might be my fault, (at least part of)
> I was planing tournaments on a regular basis but was distracted
> by several - personaly more important - events.
>
> But nevertheless, if there is increasing interest in a new
> RRobots tournament we should realy be able to have one again.
>
> I would suggest the following:
>
> All who want to paticipate in the next tournament can send their
> robots offlist (I will provide an email address if we decide to
> follow these rules). I will run a one-on-one tournament of all
> submissions every day (if there are new submissions) and post the
> results to the ML. (this keeps the noise low on the ML and
> everyone is able to see if there is further tweaking necessary)
>
> The deadline for the last submissions would be 28-05-2006 so
> everyone has time to code a real killer :)
> All submissions will be posted on the website allong with the
> results for everyone to learn from.
>
> After that I would suggest running a two-on-two team battle
> tournament with same rules for another month.
>
> Ok, everyone who wants a new tournament please speak up
> (either here or in the rrobots forum
> http://rubyforge.org/forum/?group_id=1109 )
>
> Everyone who may help to improve the web site or would volunteer
> to run the dayly matches should also contact me.
>
> BTW: is there a way to place dynamic content on rubyforge hostet
> sites? (maybe this is a stupid question, I just didn't found it
> yet)
>
> cheers
>
> Simon
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Coit [mailto:gregcoit@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:00 AM
> > To: ruby-talk ML
> > Subject: Trying to stir conversation in the rrobots community
> >
> >  Hi all,
> >
> > I'm new to ruby, but enjoying learning it a great deal. And rrobots
> > seems like a great way to practice. But the rubyforge forums have been
> > pretty quite since the tournament in december. So, I've created a new
> > irc channel on freenode called #rrobots that anyone can join to
> > discuss bots, ruby, etc....
> >
> > Hopefully interest will grow and we can hold another tournament!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Greg
> >
> >
>
>