1. Olympic Road Race Group Five
Chris Murphy Ratul Malli
John Cieslewicz Lawrence Wang

2. Introduction Initial Findings Strategies and Concepts Implementation
Tournament Analysis
Conclusion

3. Initial Findings Drafting, Forming a Line Optimal Velocity
Working with other groups
Working against other groups

4. Strategies and Concepts
Calculating optimal velocity
Follow the leader
Follow one player
Handling obstructions
Determining the leader
Winning the race

5. Implementation Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Assemble the line
Travel at optimal velocity
Phase 2
Follow the “leader”
Phase 3
Leapfrog
Win!

6. Tournament Analysis Different Number of Riders
Consistently finished in top three
Different Number of Teams
Performed better with more teams
Different Number of Lanes
Performed better with more lanes
Energy Level
Outperformed the competition in scarce environment

10. Conclusion
Demonstrated that parasitic “follow-the-leader” strategy is beneficial.
Consistently finished within the top three average scores for most race configurations.
In the “arms-race,” a follow-the-leader strategy is intrinsically one step behind, but this forced our player to be robust.