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The obstacle course had an entrance and an exit. The robot needs to find its way to the exit by itself, that’s if our coding worked. In the end, out of a dozen teams (or more), only 3 teams saw their robot moving out of the exit. Some of the other teams’ robot ended up stuck or exiting the course through the entrance (which is prohibited).
Proud to say, my team was one of the 3 successful ones. Unfortunately, this was one competition that I did not win. My team ended up having the same time (the time taken for the robot to exit the course) as the other team. However, our team’s mark was deducted because I took a minute longer to modify the codes. One of my friends manage to catch the moments on his camera.
One of the losing teams:
My team: (the “shit shit SHHIITTTTT!!!” and “goo gooo GOOOOOOO!!!” were the voices of my friends and I)
At the end, our robot took a wrong turn…and then another “wrong turn” only to manage to find the exit. It’s a long story. Bottom line is that our robot managed to get out of the course but we didn’t win. I heard from my friend that the winner’s robot got out of the maze only by luck. I didn’t manage to see because I was busy designing and rewriting the program on paper. I was nervous like crazy at that time.
At the end, they won the prize money of RM500 I think. To their horror, the faculty was having some event the next day and they were suppose to demonstrate their robot to the public. They ended up coming up to my team asking for our source codes. To be very honest, I didn’t want to give it to them. They split the RM500 in front of us earlier! What do you expect from me? 
grrrrrrrr
At the end, my friend passed the codes to them. Bargggeerrrr…they didn’t even buy us lunch or anything. cehh
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You were totally robbed. I am sorry that you didn’t win the competition. It sounds like it was a really cool experience.
@Andrew Odlum
The competition and the experience was great. Not winning was bad. To be fair, my second place was also because of luck. Half way when the robot was on the way, I noticed the two “sensors” were not facing the right angle. That made the robot to take a wrong turn (the first one). We were lucky that somehow it made another “wrong turn” (the second turn) and headed towards the exit.
We had a photographs taken at the end of the prize giving ceremony. I tried to put on a smile but I’m sure it looked really bad and fake.
Haha.Reminds me to last sem’s Robokon. I want to share my story too!
Take a look at my old blog->http://brokenengrish.blogspot.com
There’s a post titled Suzaku.
Two wrongs make one right :p
@tk2
Oh, I think I saw that kind of competition aired on the TV before. It’s actually quite challenging and fun to be apart of such competitions. Well, we leave every competition with some experience — good or bad — it’s still valuable
I just cannot accept the fact that my robot lose because of fate, not because of its weakness.
@tk2
I guess that’s how life is some times. We may be better than others but still lose because of certain “unfair factors”. Some times, we win because we have better luck. It may not be fair all the times but… I guess we’ll just need to learn to accept things some times.
Try again next time.