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quizbowl wrote:How long did it take for the team that got 0mm to set up the field? And was it the winning team of the event?
180 seconds. They placed 32nd. One team got 2 mm in 15 seconds.

I just calculated the correlation between time and distance and got 0.17, which means the 2 variables essentially weren't related to each other in any way.

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chalker wrote: Like I said above, the barrier was ~5cm in front of the target, and about 4 cm wide.
Just to make sure I understand correctly: You stated that the barrier was ~5 cm from the target. This means that it was also ~51 cm away from the laser right?
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smartkid222 wrote:
chalker wrote: Like I said above, the barrier was ~5cm in front of the target, and about 4 cm wide.
Just to make sure I understand correctly: You stated that the barrier was ~5 cm from the target. This means that it was also ~51 cm away from the laser right?
Correct.

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Chalker, can you talk at all about what changes you've made to the laser shoot for next year?
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Infinity Flat wrote:Chalker, can you talk at all about what changes you've made to the laser shoot for next year?
The biggest TENTATIVE fundamental changes are allowing for more mirrors and barriers and removing time as a scoring factor. There are lots of other incremental changes as well, but those mainly reinforce the spirit of the rules or the clarifications that were issued this year.

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chalker wrote:
Infinity Flat wrote:Chalker, can you talk at all about what changes you've made to the laser shoot for next year?
The biggest TENTATIVE fundamental changes are allowing for more mirrors and barriers and removing time as a scoring factor. There are lots of other incremental changes as well, but those mainly reinforce the spirit of the rules or the clarifications that were issued this year.
Ah, very cool. I personally was in favor of the idea posted a while back where the proctors could designate areas that the mirrors couldn't be placed, but the additional mirrors one sounds pretty good as well.
Would one of the "incremental changes" be forbidding the use of templates, perhaps?
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Infinity Flat wrote:
chalker wrote:
Infinity Flat wrote:Chalker, can you talk at all about what changes you've made to the laser shoot for next year?
The biggest TENTATIVE fundamental changes are allowing for more mirrors and barriers and removing time as a scoring factor. There are lots of other incremental changes as well, but those mainly reinforce the spirit of the rules or the clarifications that were issued this year.
Ah, very cool. I personally was in favor of the idea posted a while back where the proctors could designate areas that the mirrors couldn't be placed, but the additional mirrors one sounds pretty good as well.
Would one of the "incremental changes" be forbidding the use of templates, perhaps?

Mabby this was just in nc, but weren't they already forbidden??? :?
My team was going to use a template and didn't for that reason.
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Sunshine Ninja wrote:
Infinity Flat wrote:
chalker wrote:\

The biggest TENTATIVE fundamental changes are allowing for more mirrors and barriers and removing time as a scoring factor. There are lots of other incremental changes as well, but those mainly reinforce the spirit of the rules or the clarifications that were issued this year.
Ah, very cool. I personally was in favor of the idea posted a while back where the proctors could designate areas that the mirrors couldn't be placed, but the additional mirrors one sounds pretty good as well.
Would one of the "incremental changes" be forbidding the use of templates, perhaps?

Mabby this was just in nc, but weren't they already forbidden??? :?
My team was going to use a template and didn't for that reason.
The national clarification was that templates were allowed, but state directors were given the option of deciding for themselves within their own state.
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Infinity Flat wrote: The national clarification was that templates were allowed, but state directors were given the option of deciding for themselves within their own state.
The draft rules for next year allow any tool, including templates. We feel we've changed the core problem such that templates really aren't going to give anyone a major advantage.

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