Quote Originally Posted by NKT View Post
I found out about this forum from a couple of the guys I was chatting to at just after close on the Sunday. Nice poker face from the Team Carbide chap when he said they were off for a viewing party of the Robot Wars final!

The Featherweight bouts were very brutal. Shard was very destructive, as were the eventual winners, who threw one robot up and hit the 10mm polycarbonate wall hard enough that the dent could be felt from the outside, 5 feet up!

Very impressive power, several bouts went to the 2 minute mark, but many were under 10 seconds!

On the one hand, I need to build another robot, on the other, how do you stop a 20,000rpm cutter spinning upwards? Is ablative armour & string allowed?
String isn't allowed, it's classed as an entanglement weapon, which is illegal as per the build rules. Sacrificial armour is a thing, but it might work against you if it comes to a judge's decision and there's bits of your robot all over the place.