[robocup-rescue-s] Hidden Rule

From: Humberto Silva Naves <hnaves@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu 15 Jun 2006 - 22:47:39 GMT

Dear Robocuppers,

As a participant of the RoboCup Rescue Simulation League, I am honored to
inform you about the competition "backstage" in Bremen.

* There is a rule that, every team may upload its code between sessions, as you
can read in the manual.

Today our best friend and the chair of the Technical Commitee, Mr. Cameron
Skinner, told us about a new exciting rule just before the first session of the
second day of competition: "All teams may upload their codes only 2 times, one
before 9:50 AM and another during lunch time". This new rule deeply depreciated
our team, that missed the submission by only 2 minutes (isn't it weird?
changing the rules in the middle of the game? Try to think of what could
happen, if the same thing occured in the World Cup). We argued with Mr.
Skinner, if he could open a little exception, for those teams flawed by this
new rule, and accept just one more submission (between the first and the second
sessions) for all teams. It was useless, the man was irreductable. Just before
the last session in the morning, the server crashed, but Cameron hasn't allowed
submissions (please, keep in mind that the only reason for this new rule is to
decrease the competition's time). But it does not finish here! We uploaded our
code, and our big brother extended the submission time by 25 minutes, delaying
even more !!! (why now? and why not before?). In the afternoon, we left the
competition arena for lunch, and when we arrived, guess what happened? The rule
changed again!!! Cameron created a new "submission time", and we couldn't again
upload our code (we arrived 2 minutes before closing). Does it have something
to do with the Posseidon`s Java Exception issue? Strange, very strange! Just to
finish the play, our best friend delayed the competition, because he was
playing Tetris!!!
Yes, Tetris!!!

New Rule (it is in the server):
if (teamName == "itandroids") then
  strongly reject Submission (and maybe laugh loud at)
else if (teamName == "Poseidon") then
  accept Submission at any time
else
  ... // You already know this part

Cheers,
Humberto Naves

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