Any other videos from the event?
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Any other videos from the event?
Finally home, great event thanks to the Robo Challenge crew. Special thanks to Dave for driving me from and to the event and Grant for fixing my robot in record time...
See you next time
If NST is classed as being in the pit while one wheel is over the pit then surely Seraph should be classed as in the pit every time it drives over the pit. The rules do need to be looked at when it comes to the pit. Even in normal fights, If a flipper robot was put into the pit by a pusher but then flipped itself back out that would be judged against it, But if you have a robot like seraph you can drive through the pit all day long and it doesnt seem to matter. I like seraph its a good design, Its hard to flip, you cant put it in the pit and its fun to watch because its so different but it should be judged in the same way as all the other robots.
So bacause NST wasnt actually in the pit, And it all happened so fast that it is hard to clearly tell what robot was immobile first without watching it back on a recording. So if anything it should have been a double count out, or restarted. And im sure Alex would have been well up for a restart. Alex would have probably won the anihilator even if it was restarted, Its a good solid machine and hes a very good driver and hes proven he can beat spinners time and time again. So the overall outcome might have been the same at the end of the day, but as you know a majority of the people didnt agree with that call.
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Thanks to James, Grant, and all of the robochallenge crew for a great event.
Really enjoyed ourselves, and we are thrilled at getting second place with Explosion :)
Congratulations to the Big Nipper team for winning the event, well deserved, but I'm glad that Little Flippergot to the final instead of Little Spinner :lol:
Finally, well done to Will with Inertia, excellent outcome for a first event with your robot, and well done to Alex, for winning the annihilator once again.
Hi Tom
Glad you like Seraph. and like you said
So if anything it should have been a double count out,
In an annihilator if only one robot was working dose that not mean Seraph won!! :uhoh:
You may agree or not agree but the fact remains Judges decision is FINAL. Please let that be the end of it!!
Alex won and that is that. WELL DONE ALEX :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
From all of us at Team Saint :D
Well done LF3 and Tiny Toon :)
I agree they need to be looked at, in one of beauty 2s qualifying rounds it went to a judge€™s decision and we lost and the reason was because we had been put down the pit, even though we got out of it within 30 seconds but was probably just a reason to give the other bot the win. The rules should be simple, if you go down the pit then you are out - forget this 30 seconds business, the pit is there to knock people out. If a robot flipped themselves back into the arena what would happen then? Probably still be out - is there anything in the rules to state what happens if this occurs?Quote:
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Well done to the winners and especially robochallenge! A lot of people saw the stand and were interested so hopefully gets a bit more attention for us and hopefully more work for you guys!
Just one thing which I think we all need and that is higher arena walls, about double the height as they are at the moment and it should make the fights more interesting as there is too many flipper fights ending in 5 seconds, so with the walls a bit higher will make it more fun :)
Agree with the higher walls! The amount of times we bounced over the edge! And when a flipper starts calling for higher walls.....
Some nice videos there :)
It may take me a little while to get my videos uploaded. I'm afraid I wasn't as dedicated with my camera this time so footage may not be the best quality (i.e. might not always be pointing at the action!) but there are a good few fights in there nonetheless.
Congratulations to Mark and the Big Nipper team for taking the top spot with Little Flipper 3; you have some of the toughest and most reliable machines around and have been consistently excellent for years so it's only fair that you finally have the title of No.1 :)
Well done also to Michael with Explosion for coming a close 2nd and to Will for, quite frankly, a brilliant 3rd place finish for a first-time machine. Congrats to Alex too for reclaiming the Annihilator championship.
As usual, a great deal of thanks has to be expressed to the Coopers and Co for once again running a fantastic event. The integration into the exhibition ensured that there was always a large audience watching the fights which is always nice, and the Repair Zone was a handy addition that was well used throughout the weekend!
I don't know if it's just me, but the Gadget Show Live itself definitely seems a lot more impressive when they're promoting it on the programme; after one wander round it I didn't have any inclination to go and see anything again (girls clad in tartan short shorts aside :lol: ) but maybe I'm just not gadgety-minded enough.
Drumroll was total and utter pish, but I'll save that for my build thread :rofl:
On the topic of judges' decisions, the Boner v Beauty 4 and Annihilator semi-final fights were the only two that stuck out as being controversial in my opinion. I don't want to open up a can of worms (as they probably wouldn't taste very nice) but Boner lost his fight despite being the superior machine because he was reduced to one wheel for roughly half of the fight, yet another robot earlier in the event (can't remember who) took two points in the qualifiers despite running on one wheel for the majority of the battle and one of its opponents only got one point after it drove into the pit near the end despite being fully functional up until that point.
I probably ought to read the judging rules again but I thought that if a robot can't demonstrate controlled translation across the arena within 30 seconds - in other words, move forward or backwards, left or right using both drive wheels - then it gets counted out. If that's the case the Boner v Beauty 4 decision was correct, but going by the earlier precedent set in the aforementioned qualifier, it should have gone to Boner.
With the Annihilator fight, there are two strong arguments for the two different possible outcomes and it's already been covered in this thread, so all I'll say is that a restart would have been the fairest thing to do.
But hey, it's all done with now, so let's let the winners enjoy it :)
And I hope the Robo Challenge guys will get a chance to recover now!