Mission Possible C
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Re: Mission Possible C
Hi everyone,
I'm new to Mission Possible and I was just assigned it 4 days before the competition. My partner doesn't have a device, so I'm thinking of creating a machine with only a start action. Is that legal?
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I'm new to Mission Possible and I was just assigned it 4 days before the competition. My partner doesn't have a device, so I'm thinking of creating a machine with only a start action. Is that legal?
-Thanks!
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Re: Mission Possible C
Yes, it's 'legal' to not participate at all to be honest. You can have only a start action, but keep in mind that your time will be scored as 180 seconds because you don't have an end action.Alke wrote:Hi everyone,
I'm new to Mission Possible and I was just assigned it 2 days before the competition. My partner doesn't have a device, so I'm thinking of creating a machine with only a start action. Is that legal?
-Thanks!
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Re: Mission Possible C
While it is technically legal to do that, the start action would not contribute (or intend to contribute) towards an end action and therefore not count for points.That being said, the ES may not catch that subtlety so it may be better than nothingCookiePie1 wrote:Yes, it's 'legal' to not participate at all to be honest. You can have only a start action, but keep in mind that your time will be scored as 180 seconds because you don't have an end action.Alke wrote:Hi everyone,
I'm new to Mission Possible and I was just assigned it 2 days before the competition. My partner doesn't have a device, so I'm thinking of creating a machine with only a start action. Is that legal?
-Thanks!
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Re: Mission Possible C
Would the points count if the start action led to an attempted, but unsuccesful end action? I know there's a lot of teams that don't particpate, so I want to show up and not get tiered down.
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Re: Mission Possible C
If you really want to ensure getting points for the start action, have the golf ball get hit by the ping-pong ball, have a non-scorable action triggered by the golf ball, and then your final action. That way if/when the final action does not wiork, you can still claim that the golf ball began the next action and for sure get points for it.Alke wrote:Would the points count if the start action led to an attempted, but unsuccesful end action? I know there's a lot of teams that don't particpate, so I want to show up and not get tiered down.
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Re: Mission Possible C
You could also make your device super small so that you can get bonus points for size.ScottMaurer19 wrote:If you really want to ensure getting points for the start action, have the golf ball get hit by the ping-pong ball, have a non-scorable action triggered by the golf ball, and then your final action. That way if/when the final action does not wiork, you can still claim that the golf ball began the next action and for sure get points for it.Alke wrote:Would the points count if the start action led to an attempted, but unsuccesful end action? I know there's a lot of teams that don't particpate, so I want to show up and not get tiered down.
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Re: Mission Possible C
This is always a good plan^CookiePie1 wrote:You could also make your device super small so that you can get bonus points for size.ScottMaurer19 wrote:If you really want to ensure getting points for the start action, have the golf ball get hit by the ping-pong ball, have a non-scorable action triggered by the golf ball, and then your final action. That way if/when the final action does not wiork, you can still claim that the golf ball began the next action and for sure get points for it.Alke wrote:Would the points count if the start action led to an attempted, but unsuccesful end action? I know there's a lot of teams that don't particpate, so I want to show up and not get tiered down.
Read the rules though so you don't try to make it smaller than necessary.
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Re: Mission Possible C
If you have time you could also put a simple sand timer, or have the golf ball roll down a track to get the time up.Alke wrote:Thanks for the quick replies. I'll definitely try this and hope we don't get tiered down for Mission Possible.
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Re: Mission Possible C
Someone on our team had to do this, except they found out the night before. Think the simple actions (for example lever task), get the start task, the end task, size bonus.... dont forget the ASL either.Vortexx wrote:If you have time you could also put a simple sand timer, or have the golf ball roll down a track to get the time up.Alke wrote:Thanks for the quick replies. I'll definitely try this and hope we don't get tiered down for Mission Possible.
My device bombed at Cornell this weekend, only completed 3 tasks, had 3 touches. I got most of the size points though, and had a timer, so was able to place in the top 15. From this I would recommend a simple device that requires no touches, which in itself is worth a good amount.
Hope this helps!
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