Something to think about.

I agree it would be a good idea to Standardise all featherweights throughout the world but 12kg limit is nice. However does everyone remenber the controversy when robot wars raised the heavyweight limit from 80kg to 100kg. Everyone said theyll just add more armour. This has turned out to be totally false with very few of the robots built to the 80kg weight limit still around with extra armour (mute is the only one I can think of).

I personally dont mind either way but whether it stays or goes up featherweights are still very dangerous and great fun.

Regards
Ian

Well, it seems as if the keep it as it is brigade is in the minority. I have to agree. Keep it as it is.

Ewan mentioned that Battlebots have a 220ld ruling and that this is similar to our 100Kg. In a way he is correct. But in a huge way he is incorrect. Battlebots take the weight os gas and fuel. So, your 220lbs includes consumables unlike RW or FRA rules. So, a new machine has to be made or adapted. They even weigh you after a fight if asked for and if you have picked up shrapnel and you are that close to the weight then you could be disqualified.

We fought long and hard to get DTK within 12kgs. I would love the extra weight so that we could rearmour it and bring it out of retirement.

Unless the rules on weighting are standardised throughout the whole world we will be stuck with different weight limits throughout the spectrum.


My vote is to leave things as they are. If the rules are standardised then I will seriously reconsider.

Mike.

it would be nice, but if you want extra weight then build lightweights.

It works, why change it?

yup, keep it 12kg. i like having the constant challenge of trying to take grams out of everything just to get it in the weight, and finding new lightweigh products that no one else has thought about before. its all part of the fun

12kg is a nice even number, its served us well for several years now and if everyone else has 1.6 kilos more than us thats just all part of the fun.

But dont RFL require that pneumatic robots are weighed gassed up?

I agree with david. 12.5 sounds better than 13.6.
13.6 seems to big a jump even though i could do with that extra weight for my feather.

i like having the constant challenge of trying to take grams out of everything just to get it in the weight .

I agree with Grant on this one. It is a challenge to keep under the limit. Rasing the limit by 10% would take some of that away.
(Feather still not finished due to weight saving efforts, lol!)

Woody, whilst I do not disagree with what you are saying, I feel the FRA should consider world wide competition a nice to have and if and when it becomes a reality, review it then.

In the meantime, perhaps the FRA could focus on ensuring the future of combat in the UK. If Jonno was to scale down or even stop his live event circuit, where would we all be then? That is how fragile UK combat is. It is struggling to survive after the demise of Robot wars, would it survive the loss of Roaming Robots. I am only too aware that very few new builders are coming along, Geoff, if you want to change the rules, change them to make it easier for new blood to get involved.

Paul

keep it 12kg, it keeps the engineering skills alive. thats the challenge. plus if the americans want to come over here id be more than happy to fight them!
people said originaly the 80 kg heavy limit was perfect, it had skill involved to produce a good machine under the weight. now its 100kg its easy.

Im strongly againest any increase, weve seen some excellent robots built to the 12kg limit. We know it can be done so why would we want a rule change that favours other nations?

Getting down to 12 kg is an enjoyable challenge which shouldnt be swept away for the very rare occasions when we may just see an American or Australian robot in Europe.