Re: [Cs-club] UWOSH CS Club - Official mailing for MechMania at Reflections|Projections

[Rene Horn <ndogg@geekhead.org>]

On Friday 13 September 2002 12:07 pm, Enstrim wrote:
> TO:  Computer Science Club members
> Remember talking about the Reflections|Projections conference at this weeks
> meeting (scheduled to take place Friday, October 18th to Sunday, October
> 20th 2002)?  Remember the MechMania programming competition I mentioned was
> part of the conference?  You can find more details regarding this
> competition in the e-mail attached to this message (see below) sent by Matt
> Cheney, son of our nations VP... I mean... the student responsible for
> organizing Reflections|Projections and MechMania.  IE, this is the official
> notice.  If you're interested in Mech Mania, I recommend you read it. 
> Thanks! PS:  Some CS Club members who took place in MechMania last year may
> have already recieved this message from Matt Cheney. Thanks!
> --Jeff Lucas
> CS Club President
>  Note: forwarded message attached.
>
>
>
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And I blockquoth Mr. Cheney:
<blockquote>
After MechMania VII where the global trade economy collapsed due to 
monopolistic influence, a new spirit was born. MechMania VIII, by far the 
coolest MechMania C++ coding competition yet, is back for another year of 
artificial intelligence programming madness!
</blockquote>
Huh, gee, so the reason the last competition failed was entirely due to 
Microsoft's monopolistic behavior?!  I guess the winner was supposed to be 
the bot that behaved most like Microsoft.

So, if this next one is NOT sponsored by Microsoft, we know two things:

1) The game will not be based in monopolistic economics.
2) It should be a huge success since we don't need to worry about buggy 
Microsoft software.

Rene