Talk:King of the Ring/@comment-35745775-20181029211307

So after having been careful to upgrade steadily and not overshoot the targets to hopefully help keep the bots not too fast, I wanted to try to get past 9.3 with 3331313 (9.2 was tough for me with these upgrades!).

No way! Absolutely impossible and not even possible to slow down Magnus with repeated retries.

So I tried 3332313, then 3332323. Same story, impossible and no slowing Magnus.

At 3333323 Magnus slowed a bit after a few retries, but nowhere near enough. Maybe with 5333323 or 5333313 it would be possible, but doesn’t really make sense.

So finally upgraded to 3333333, then bingo it was simple, absolutely no trouble to keep up with Magnus, passed on first attempt with no drama!

There seems to be seem threshold (maybe an exact PR value) where suddenly it becomes possible.

I think my bot slowing has paid off, since Magnus really was not that challenging. I also had a ridiculously slow Autocross time of 32,9xx seconds on 9.2, which is way too slow to achieve the average speed requirement. I had to do 30,5xx seconds and just scraped through.