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[DPRG] FW: Robot Sumo Network Roll Call
Subject: [DPRG] FW: Robot Sumo Network Roll Call
From: Robert L. Jordan
rljordan at airmail.net
Date: Sat Sep 1 09:36:06 CDT 2001
Friends,
Here is an update from Bill Harrison. He has become the National
rules keeper for the standardized sumo contest. Build to the rules
posted on his site and your robot can run in all these contest.
DPRG
NWR Sumo (Bill Harrison's group_
SRS
PARTS, I think
Others.
Regards,
Bob Jordan
Prez. 2001
--Forward from Bill --
I'm busy reworking and updating the Northwest Robot Sumo rules for the next Robot Sumo season. I'm short on time to work on it, so it's going slow, but the biggest problem is that the officials in Japan have been slow to send me information. I need this information from Japan to keep our rules compatible, so I'd rather wait to get them, so I can include them into our rules.
For now, it looks like the Ring may have changed, but I can't get any official confirmation of this, so I'll hold off on the announcement.
We are adding three new classes to the existing classes. They will also have remote control as well as autonomous divisions. The new classes in the rules will be: Lightweight (20 by 20 cm and 1 Kg, no sticky wheels or vacuum), Micro (5 by 5 by 5 cm (yes it has a height restriction) 100 gm, no sticky wheels or vacuum), and Nano (2.5 by 2.5 by 2.5 cm, no mass restriction, no sticky wheels or vacuum). These are along with the existing Japanese and Mini Class Robot Sumo.
We probably will only run the lightweight class, of the new classes, next Spring at the Northwest Robot Sumo Tournament. The other new classes may be added to the competition at a later date (when more of them are built).
This should be an interesting new year in Robot Sumo, I'm excited to see how things develop.
Bill Harrison
Head Northwest Robot Sumo
http://www.sinerobotics.com
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