[robocup-msrs] Practice days

[Andrew Williams]

Hi Kyle,
Thanks for this email.  Even some experienced teams in the 4 Legged
League , for example, are "not ready" once they get to the robocup.  I
agree that this should and will be fun!

-- Andrew

On 6/26/07, Kyle Johns <kylej at microsoft.com> wrote:
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> We realize that not all teams will be ready to field a polished soccer team
> on the first day of Robocup and that is why we have built in three full days
> of practice sessions and support.  As I indicated in my mail yesterday, I
> will be there on Sunday evening to set up the systems and all day Monday,
> Tuesday, and Wednesday to answer questions and help polish code.  As an
> added bonus, we'll be joined by George Chrysanthakopoulos, the architect for
> Microsoft Robotics Studio, from Wednesday to Sunday for the particularly
> hard questions J.   I have no doubt that we'll have several capable soccer
> teams ready for the preliminary competitions on Thursday and Friday.
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> From now until this Sunday, focus on giving your simulated Robudogs the
> ability to analyze the images of the field and to move toward the ball and
> kick when the opportunity presents itself.  Even our very primitive little
> lego sample services score sometimes!
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> Try not to get too hung up in the pitfalls of configuration.  Run the
> fourrobudogplayers manifest and manually delete the entities that you don't
> want on the field.  I will be happy to help you make manifests that will run
> across our three-machine configuration once you get to Robocup.  It will
> take only minutes.
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> Above all, let's have some fun with this.  If I'm going to spend 10 days
> swimming in humidity in Atlanta in the middle of the summer, this had better
> be fun!  This is the first time that Microsoft has sponsored a competition
> at Robocup and we  are looking forward to learning a lot and having  a great
> time.
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> -Kyle
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