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    Events. Look in the top "bar", and you'll see a few names. Extreme robots, Robochallenge, Robots Live and Kinematic. Those are UK Robot wars related event organisers and the websites will tell you about those events.

    Classes most used.
    Antweights. 150gram of concentrated mayhem.
    Beetles. 10 times heavier and about as much more meaner.
    Featherweights. 13.6kg of sheer destruction.( current crop of feathers has powerlevels equal to series 5 or even 6 heavies)
    Heavyweights. 110kg of mayhem.

    On the Mainland we have the 6kg raptors that is proving viable as a class.

    Oh, sooner or later you'll have to shoot the engineer and build the damn thing....

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    Team Kaizen

    Hey there, welcome to the forum!

    I started competing in live events this year starting at the Featherweight class and am now branching out into the Beetleweight category. I'd say either of those two would be ideal as a starting class.

    You'll want to decide on that first and then comb through the build threads to see what is being made in those classes to get an idea of what armour/weaponry/motors etc are being used and to see what works and what doesn't.
    Team Kaizen - Build Diary for all the robots

    AW: Amai, Ikari, Lafiel, Osu, Ramu
    BW: Shu!, The Honey Badger
    FW: Azriel
    MW: Jibril, Kaizen

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    There are loads of Build diaries in this forum under another section. Roguetworobotics even made a featherweight parts guide somewhere.

    Featherweights compete at nearly any heavyweight event, and have their own dedicated championship.

    Beetleweights have less events, but more dedicated championships. So depends what level you really want to be competing to.

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    Beetles are great as they combine the basics of making a feather with the simplicity of antweights, but have much fewer events as they are too big for ant arenas but too small for feather arenas. From my experience, starting with a feather has been just fine and the elecronics are far easier than they may seem at first. Plus, as Garfie mentioned, where there's a heavyweight event, there's a feather event; all of the live shows have featherweight meles as well as the robochallenge champs. Good luck!

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