Having read all this thread, my understanding is that this class is primarily to give newcomers a chance to enter a very cheaply built robot with a weapon(s) that can at the same time entertain the audience by being fairly easy to destruct and inexpensive to repair for the builder. Any existing bot could be timber clad within the weight limit but this rather defeats the purpose and spirit of this class, especially if it has a really powerful weapon that can simply take-out cheaply built timber bots as soon as they move! IMO it would look rather stupid if all its tough metal or plastic under armour was revealed intact after all the wood was ripped-off. A wooden bot reduced to its chassis will look like a defeated bot.

Hoppy