Something to think about.

I have been looking around various countrys build rules for featherweights and I have found that the FRA build rules are the only ones that still have a 12KG weight limit.
The RFL use 30Lb (13.6KG)I believe that our friends in Australia now use the RFL rule set. (Maybe they could confirm?)
In view of this I would like your opinions as to whether you would like to bring the FRA rules into line, and increase the Featherweight weight limit from 12KG to 13.6KG.
This is just a fact finding project at the moment and I can confirm that there are no plans to make any changes to the rules at present.

my personal opinoin NO lets keep it 12kg plenty bots are very destructive and UNDER 12 kgs imagine adding another 1.6 kg to a already dangerous bot

i would like the weight limit to be 13.6kg

Well following the path of other weight classes you divide the weight by two (100, 50, 25) so i think it should be raised but not that high, to 12.5kg as this would follow on from the other classes.

Unfortunately, Geoff Smith is correct. We voted on it and changed to the American weight. One day I hope to have a feather worth taking to the UK to compete. I will have to make two shells one 1.6 kg lighter than the other.

Do Americans bring their feathers to fight you?

I think we should go up to 30lb, it just makes everything simpler and gives us a little more weight to play with. Remember that all the heavies have a standard weight (220lb is near enough to 100kg) so why not standardise the feathers?

No doubt in my mind, leave it at 12kg. I can see no justification in changing it at the moment just to match the USA. Australia made their own choice and rightly so. If UK teams want to go to the USA they can always add weight. I do not see that many US featherweight teams coming to the UK to warrant a change to such a fundamental rule.

Paul

Id be in favour of raising the weight ....Thus making it possible for the Roboteering community worldwide to compete.

I have to agree with Paul on this one, moving the weight limit up is not really that helpfull. Few bots move around enough for this to be a real issue.

Also has this issue not been raised in the FRA world championship thread already.

There was a poll about this on the Featherweights.org site a while ago and I think the majority of the votes was to keep the 12kg weight class (if Im not mistaken). Personally I think it should stay at 12kg, cant really explain why, I just prefer it as it is. However Woody has a good point that having it at 13.6kg would allow for even competition across the globe.

Jamie