Featherweights - Active weapon rule

[jonny]

a quick guess off the top of my head your looking at £30'000+ to upgrade our arena to be spinner proof, plus a couple of grand every event to cover the additional transport and crew required. .

at £100 each that'd require 300 people, i doubt there'd be more than 50 people willing to £100

[robotic_ants]

What is the difference between uk robot events which do not currently have that many spinner events and the american events which have very powerful spinners nearly every event. In the US builders can attend just as many events as UK builders, sustain damage and come back next event.

They expect to get damaged, they know they have to re-build and are used to it. In the UK we seem to want to protect our machines more, prevent damage and we are too complacent.

[harry hills]

i'm not going to build a spinner either way, but i would not mind putting my robots against some insane spinner.

[Danjr1]

To be honest, I've spent nearly a year and a lot of money building my rambot to a point where I think it's half decent. If a rule came to ban it, I would be pretty much forced to quit

[jonny]

if spinners were run at every event i think most people would redesign/rebuild to create a borring well armoured box with a low powered weapon

[TEAM ENIGMA]

@ Chris, if I remember correctly, someone on robot wars said, that in the US the fights are over a lot quicker because of their crazy and destructive weapons, whereas over here fights are a lot longer, and therfore are more entertaining. Just though I'd mention that.

[harry hills]

sod it, get one of those low power spinners that roaming robots have, ill build a robot that has rubishy armour, it can get trashed.


DONE.

[mattsdragons]

it thaqt a serious thing for spinner demos?

[harry hills]

what?

[robotic_ants]

over here fights are a lot longer, and therfore are more entertaining.

Are they though? I watch quite a few youtube battles because I don't attend many events any more. I find myself skipping to the end of the video just to see who's won when it's an arena full of flippers and pushers. But if it is a video with a spinner, axe or other interesting/destructive weapon I tend to watch the whole video start to finish and look back a good bits despite of how long the battle lasts.

Longer battles are more entertaining for the builder yes, for an audience maybe not.