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43 pointsyankoff14 comments

Before this gets too popular you really need to change the name and remove anything related to the olympics. The US Olympic committee will send you a cease and desist letter and follow with a lawsuit if you don't change it. The olympics are a big business and they protect their copyright fiercely.

A few examples:

Knitting olympics crackdown: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-06-22/why-the-u-do...

Robogames was formerly Robolympics: http://boingboing.net/2003/11/24/olympics-serves-robo.html

> their copyright

Nitpick: This is trademark at issue here, not copyright. Though the USOC and the IOC protect basically everything they can fiercely.

If you think that's bad, you should have seen the London 2012 branding police. Was the most fierce and ridiculous yet.

Why was this announced with only 8 days until the event? Assuming it takes three days' shipping for a test copter to arrive, that leaves zero weekends in which to prepare, for someone who jumps on it immediately. I think they're going to be disappointed by the turnout.

This is not an official announcement though, I'm not an organizer of the event. I think they announced it amongst groups interested in robotics long ago. It just happend that I posted a link on HN today ;)

As for the copter, you can buy it in Costco, no need to wait!

Somebody, anybody, PLEASE win this with a reasonable programming language instead.

Somebody, anybody, PLEASE tell this guy to be a little less melodramatic.

Why, javascript is ill suited to this task. It is perfectly reasonable to question their choice.

For those that would rather use another language, nowadays can pick from a big hall of languages, besides the usual suspects of Clojurescript and Coffeescript: http://altjs.org/

What is the goal or challenge? I can find no reference to the criteria that contestants will be judged on.

I figured out why its in js!

Nathan Rajlich Nodejs core comitter

More ladies should apply.

Announcement on thanksgiving weekend too short a notice, will not participate, hope i can visit and see the demos

Some sort of tower defense game would be totally awesome

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