OOTA

Problem.
How to stay in the arena?
With disks we armour the sides heavy.With Axes we armour top and bottom. To avoid the pit we go for very good driving.Upside down flipped, a sremech or double sided driving are options.

But how to avoid OOTAs?
Good driving is an answer. better offensive weaponry, good idea. But not realy a defense like a sremech or armour.

So I ask, how are the new generation of machines protectng themselfs against OOTAs?

Whats OOTA`s

out of the arena !! silly billy

OOTA - Out Of The Arena

And how to protect against it... I dont think you can unless you nail your bot to the floor.

but dont you think it could lead to a very boring series 8 ????

bang...wosch...cease.

I think good driving is the best answer.

Alternatively, I think your robot is still allowed to extend outside the 1.2m x 2.0m limit once its in the arena... so all you have to do is build a robot that expands to 10m x 10m, then you cant be flipped out. Simple really :)

start the fight outside the arena to start with
:)

Then you can have an BITA back in the arena :)

Im rather serious about this.
Most of us know how combative the new generation of flippers will be.
Also, the amount of monstermachines based around thesame idea is already staggering.At least 6 teams are extracting the finer points of the systems.
Even better if it can be used to avoid the pit.

Now, how are we going to keep a normal robot in the arena using auxilerary systems like a sremech.

An idea was to use a directional thruster.But that needs to be so powerfull it will weigh to much to be a auxilerary.

So Im asking for realistical systems that can be used to upgrade existing robots.

zero ground clearance will help in some cases. mechaniacII want to use 4 wedges, driven by small custom made 4- position cylinder, lifting the complete drivetrain against a spring load (cup spring packs). hope it helps sometime :)