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From: bsmall@iat.holonet.net (Brad Smallridge)
Subject: Re: Robot Sumo Contest Announcement
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Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 21:16:06 GMT
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mww@eng.cam.ac.uk (Mark Wright) writes:
: Seems to me that friction is one of the key issues,
: would it be legal to use a plate of vacuum suction cups
: to lay down and push against or must the contact be purely
: frictional?
: 
That's not allowed. Your machine can't suck, glue, or screw 
itself down. It is puerly a pushing match. I was watching 
the Sumo Basho in San Jose on the cable the other night, and
those guys have a lip around the ring to tell them when they 
are close to the edge. It seemed like the guys sometimes just
gave up after being pushed back to this ring and held there
for awhile.
Brad Smallridge
bsmall@holonet.net

