Quote Originally Posted by Anttazz
Personally, I can't afford the money it takes to compete with FP flippers and axes that would easily destroy the 1-2mm stainless on Eric's Ali space frame. So if you're looking to encourage these bots back asking people to spend loads more money on their bots possibly isn't the way to go. I agree that its not just FP flippers though, its just the more powerful bots. Don't have quite the same amount of publicity as RW had after all.

As for the metaphorical marathon runner, its maybe more like a marathon runner with one leg, rather than running in the olympics maybe the Paralympics would be better suited where there is a more level playing field.
EDIT: Just saw the pun in that last sentence, I can assure you all it wasn't intentional