[Dprglist] Which contest is harder?

[Doug Paradis]

-All,
    I am preparing the announcement of Roborama 2019, and am trying to sort
the contests by difficulty. How would you gauge the Four Corners
competition vs. Table Top - Classic?

To refresh your memory, Four Corners, the robot drives around a large
square course and attempts to end at the same location that it started. In
Table Top - Classic, the robot is placed on a table and must do 3 tasks:
drive to the opposite edge of the table with some part of the robot over
the edge and return to the start area, knock a soda can off the table, and
lastly, push a soda can to edge where a box is located so the can falls
into the box.

I initially thought that being successful in Four Corners is harder, than
doing the tasks in Table Top - Classic. My thought was the robot needed to
be more precise and capable in Four Corners, where in Table Top - Classic
there are many ways to solve the problem. With this in mind, I gauged Table
Top - Classic to be a high level beginner contest and Four Corners to be an
intermediate level contest.

What do you guys and gals think?

BTW, rules are at https://www.dprg.org/contest-rules/.


Regards,
Doug Paradis
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