Cage or no cage?

I havent seen the cage but I am very interested by it if it makes for longer fights.

You never know, you might get lucky and find that Robochallenge have added a cage to their arena which might help stop Hornet throwing itself oota :)

On a serious note, I agree with the fact that no group is more important than the other. Roboteers need the event organisers and the event organisers need the roboteers - simple. We depend on each other, thats how this sport works and succeeds. Although some of the celebrity attention is enjoyable - getting asked for autographs, photos etc - as soon as the roboteers genuinely believe they ARE celebrities (and Im talking about the trashy celebrities here that think everyone loves them) then comes a slippery slope that will cause rifts and arguments.

Not trying to insinuate that anyone in this community is like that, everyone is perfectly sane and down-to-earth here :)
But if it was to happen then that is when it would become clear that no group is more important than the other

I like the idea of the cage. Havent seen it first-hand but its an attempt to keep things fresh and improve the quality of fights for the audience and that is what is beneficial in this sport.

As for roboteer viewing, with most people on 2.4GHz, why not mingle with the audience and control your robot from the audience perspective :)
Yes I know there would be various safety issues such as communication if sudden deactivation was required, but just imagine how special it would be for that little kid in the audience to have a roboteer sitting next to them whilst controlling their robot in that fight

i like your thoughts jamie i just might go sit in the crowd in a white board if its ok with saftey. if i can make just 1 person smile it makes me so happy.

I think that the cage is a great idea, the fights certainly last longer which can only be a good thing (unless THZ is in the arena:lol:)

last year at the XFM event we all sat in the audience and drove the robots from there. The view into the arena was great and it was nice to sit down and drive for a change.

seeing as alot of the rr events include the fold out seats the crowd is split into sections so maybe in a white board one robot per section gets everyone involved then...

Id agree on the audience thing, surprised that hasnt been done much before to be honest :)

Maybe in a white board fun fight with 3 or 4 robots, that could be an option. We already have the emergancy stop sound, so roboteers known when to stop if needed. Could give it a go at Maidstone, would be fun.

Audience split 2 teams, 4 robots, 2 per team, drive from audience. :proud:

Mr Stu

Good idea.
How many sections of the audience + One robot per section + crowd cheering for robot= fun fight!
But, if you where to drive from where the audience is, that might be a bit distracting, THE LOUDER YOU SHOUT THE BETTER YOUR ROBOT FIGHTS! as if, the louder you shout, the worser your bot fights more like, you could go deaf, have the controll being plucked at by kids, patting on the back, ect.
Maybe, behind the area where the arena is, but in line with your crowds section.

no cage = robot wars = 2002 = failure = tv dont want us

cage = roaming robots = 2009 = we will c what happens!

True |:-\

Cage yes.Cameras restricted to allow better driving positions yes, in the feather weight fights at Nottingham the smaller drivers struggled to find a space as one side was full of cameras
Maybe an elevated platform for either drivers or cameras?