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Winter 2018 Formula Pi Finals Preview

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 10 Apr 2019 - 13:58.

Tonight is the finals of this season of Formula Pi, and what a tight season of racing we've had to get to these last two races! The top of the leaderboard has been tightly fought between Pi Hard from Poole and Pico HulkenBorg from Oxfordshire, with Pi Hard edging the lead going into the final race.

As in previous years, we are runnning a B-final to decide positions 6 through 10 and an A-final to decide positions 1 through to 5, so the top 10 all comes down to this final race.

The races will be on our live feed today (10th of April) at 18:30 BST and are available here:

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Winter 2018 Round 9 Race Results and Leaderboard

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 29 Mar 2019 - 13:10.

After 9 rounds of thrilling testing, challenges and racing, we've arrived! The last sessions had some excellent edge of your seat racing action, and it was the perfect way to finish off the season!

If you don't want to know the results, don't scroll any further and make sure you watch the two videos below for all the racing action:

Session 1:

Session 2:

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Winter 2018 Round 8 Race Results and Leaderboard

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 26 Mar 2019 - 11:10.

In the penultimate round of racing, there has been some tight heats really impacting the leaderboard. Catch up with the sessions below to find out what happened before scrolling on to the results.

Round 8 Session 1:

Round 8 Session 2:

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Winter 2018 Round 6 Race Results and Leaderboard

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 15 Feb 2019 - 11:05.

For the second week in a row, we were treated to some excellent racing from all competitors!

The four heats from this week were certainly packed with excitement, interesting tactics, and big improvements for multiple competitors. The winner of each heat scored more than 30 laps, I think this is the first time since Formula Pi started that this has happened!

If you don't want to know the results because you haven't seen the feed, the catch up with the links below, and for the results and leaderboard please scroll on!

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Rule change in the event of a tie

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 15 Feb 2019 - 09:13.

Just a short post to alert people to a change to the rules.

In the event of a tie for positions, in the first instance, the total number of laps completed will be used to decide ordering. If there is still a tie on points and number of laps completed, the maximum number of laps completed in any point scoring round will be used.

For example:

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Winter 2018 Round 5 Challenge Results and Leaderboard

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 10 Feb 2019 - 14:57.

Make sure you watch the Challenge Session 1 & 2 videos below if you don't want spoilers for what happened in the challenges!


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Winter 2018 Round 3 Race Results and Leaderboard

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 10 Feb 2019 - 14:14.

Catch up with Session 1 and Session 2 if you haven't watched them already, spoilers are contained below!


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Winter 2018 Round 2 Challenge Round Up and Results

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 10 Dec 2018 - 20:29.

Catch up with Session 1 and Session 2 if you haven't watched them already, spoilers are contained below!


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Winter 2018 Round 1 Testing Round up

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 25 Nov 2018 - 17:38.

The first testing session of the Winter 2018 season took place last week with 17 robots all lining up to flex their coding muscles. The best recorded lap of the night went to Chitty Chitty Pi Pi with 16.54 seconds, and they also had the best average times of the night at 16.69 seconds.

The full testing session can be rewatched below, check the video description for time stamped entries for each robot.

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The Summer 2018 Survey Results

Submitted by Claire Pollard on 14 Nov 2018 - 19:46.

The results are in... And here they are!

Thank you to all of the competitors who took the time to fill in the short survey we published a few weeks ago. This blog post is intended to share the results of that survey, and address the common themes that were raised by multiple competitors and let you know what's next for Formula Pi.

There were 18 respondents out of a possible 31 respondents.

The first seven questions were used to gauge feelings about Formula Pi and the last three were designed to give free feedback.

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