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Sorry but I strongly disagree.

A: shoving in powerfull motors means shoving in bucketloads of batteries. They take up weight, they take up space. That is vital for the design of your robots and how long they will last.

B: giving the specs of your batteries just like giving the amount of gas in your flipper will give you an accurate assesment of the power you will generate. Voltage alone will not do that. Batteries go down in a fight, you will not run as fast in the arena after 4 minutes as you did in the first 4 seconds.

I think that in vapourboteering it should go to the writers choice whether batteries need to be specified or not.

Given that the majority of us not even know what type of batteries there are, and I dont tend to write in the intros what batteries each person uses, I think they shouldnt NEED to be stated.

I really need to know, if a fellow tournament writer could answer this please:
Say someone started an annual tournament called ABC. In the first series, I entered Behemoth and did well enough to be seeded in series 2. But in series 2 I didnt enter Behemoth, but someone else did/it was entered by the writer on a realie team. Would Behemoth still be seeded?

Please?

Yes - it is true and possible - TJS in FFW4 entered Storm 2, and then in the next one, Richard Southworth entered it, and it was seeded 8.

Thanks Paul

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It did in my Mini-Tournament, as Leo stated in his stats Symmertrys batteries wouldnt go the distance.Most vapourboteers make their robots Battlebots specs So I thought Id do that too. Battlebot fights are 3 minutes, not 5.

But thats ok, if Symmetry cant get the job done in 3 minutes it wont do it in 5 minutes either. :)

Well, in practice its up to the writer wether ANYTHING needs to be specified or not.

But while things like armour and weapons are commonly accepted as must-haves, batteries are in a grey zone, I myself kinda agree with Frank though.

Liam, good question. In all cases I have seen, and it happened more than once, a realie would be seeded based on its performance no matter who enters it.

I personally dont look at battery stats in detail, but I think they should be included, if only for the sake of completeness - besides some designs benefit from heavy SLA batteries rather than lighter ones, but thats just me being pedantic probably.

Right so you plant a V8 in a car and say it runs on petrol you think that is enough to predict it will last 30 rounds in the race?