Classic car park fights

Do many of these happen anymore?

An event along the lines of a few teams meet up and just have some fun if the right area was found to do it?

Or something like a school playground with a few plug sockets?

In short no, too dangerous

Not even for feathers, if you didn't allow spinners?

Even if it wasn't that dangerous, it's hardly worth it these days when there are so many live events on where you can go along and compete against many other robots in a proper fighting environment. Car park fights originated mainly as a result of not having an arena to fight in (either when RW wasn't being filmed, or after its demise) but that's not really much of an issue today.

It would be nice to see an event during the summer since there is nothing between June and september

The 1.3Kg class would be good for this type of meeting as you could have the arena carried in the back of a small van and put up in someone's garden. a few whiteboard fights and a BBQ going, It is a private event so come at your own risk. You could have several in the different areas around the UK so no one has to travel too far,

it wouldnt be hard to make a feather arena out of some plywood and wooden walls, just got to keep far enough back to avoid the power flippers and keeps your wits about you.

its something that if people were willing to take the risk, it could be a nice little event :)

it would be more probable for beetleweights rather then featherweights.
but if you organize it, get the wood for the floor then i would be happy to atend

I would rather do a feather even since I can then fight myself :)

like i said if you orgaize it and do all the safty precautions i will come :)

if we got a large enough place to host it in or were just careful with what bots came (ie, no minster flippers) it could even be done in our garden :)

It sounds like RFRC :uhoh:
it looks a bit dangerous to do this with the heavyweights (what with all the c02 and stuff) and feathers are quite powerful nowadays, so perhaps either small amounts of featherweights or beetleweights/ants? or something like that, it kind of reminds me of a social meeting (which isnt bad i suppose) either way its not going to be a full on competition (take of that what you will).

at the last RFRC me, Matt Hunt and a few others had some fun with feathers in the (now MY) school basketball court, basically it resulted in several broken bins, large tyre tracks, and some scared cats (yep i got in trouble for that one...) it was fun but even then i could see dangers.

basically, BBQ's and demos are good, but perhaps just do that at the live events?
Jack

i think get permission from a schhol to use heir basket ball courts, someone to bring some c02 and bring a BBq and we could have quite a nice little event going here could we?

i did get permission from the school, i just think that when i said robots they thought RC cars rather that full pressure c02 flippers :uhoh: when i joined the school the caretaker was like its YOU!

anyway, all randomness aside, i think that a small social event like this would be great, its kind of what rfrc was designed to be, and everybody loved that...right? :twisted:

my school has a very flat car park, and my old secondary school has a few good areas they would be good, i can ak both and see if either say yes and take it from there

rfrc was awesome! another one needed soon

what was rfrc? i probably was not on here at the time and i dont have a clue what it is :)

richmond fighting robot club. it is run by jack and it is in richmond, last time it was in september i think but it was only antweights apart from pure evil 2 which wasn't working if i remember correctly

Please don't bother.i can see this ending with someone being injured or property damaged unless you stick to slow rammers and nothing else

Yeah, there's a whole world of difference between mucking around with 2 feather rammers that a full blown competition, so id really stick to the RR and RL shows

If this did happen, there would be fairly tight rules on bots

There are tight rules for events and with good reason.years of experience making many mistakes. I would seriously advise against doing anything on school grounds as well

Yeah, the only reason i was allowed on school grounds is because im doing GCSE DT and stuff, and the school are keen to get the word out they have good things happening at their school, oh and the scout hut is like 20 feet away, and even then it was hard to win them over, so yeah, if you want the relaxed atmosphere im thinking of doing another RFRC soonish, and im sure the food will be great :mrgreen: probably very few featherweights though, and probably only rammers.

yay :proud: mind you my robot would actualy have to go fast for it to be a rammer,its more of a gentle nudger :lol:

I thing as long as it's not flippers, spinner and privacy axes then it would be fine?

Would be nice to have an event built purely around the competitors rather than the audience, like an rc car club.

Virtually all the standalone antweight events are run like that and it's, in my view, a lot more fun for it - spectators are of course perfectly welcome but they risk having a transmitter shoved in their hands if someone gets two of their own robots drawn against each other :P

The logistics of ants are far different though, the arena(s) can be transported in the back of someone's car and put together in 20 minutes so there's no real costs to recoup by having an audience - which there are with the larger arenas and all that comes with them.

I don't think you'll find any roboteer on here suggesting that fighting in car-parks is a good idea, regardless of whether they're just rammers or not. A 13Kg robot is a very different matter from a RC car hitting you in the leg/shin.

Of course what you do is entirely your own choice, however seeking support for doing this, on the FRA Forum when the FRA are the advocates of ensuring things are run safely is probably not the best place to seek support.

Maybe you should read the FRA Arena Build guidelines

http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/documen ... Safety.pdf

There is the concept of a 'Class 5 arena' but even this is far more than 'just a car park'