2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

**razerdave** · 12th March 2012, 19:09

FYI, Kaizer comes from Swansea.

**RobotExtreme** · 12th March 2012, 19:09

Is true, if you can answer, which the material of the floor of the arena and what is the unevenness between the plates?

**razerdave** · 12th March 2012, 19:13

The floor is hardox and there is no unevenness that I am aware of.

**PJ-27** · 12th March 2012, 19:23

Swansea eh? Well that's easy enough to say....

The plates of hardox can have a small gap between them though as Explosion found out last year....

**beast** · 12th March 2012, 19:24

hmm yes very flat not we drove to the start then the wheels very not on the floor and we had 1 flip as there was a lot of swarf in the buffer doh!

**Team Invade** · 12th March 2012, 19:30

[quote=PJ-27]
The plates of hardox can have a small gap between them though as Explosion found out last year....

**RobotExtreme** · 12th March 2012, 19:50

Honestly this is really bad!

As usually works when a robot gets stuck in the arena, the opponent usually disengages it? In general, how works the mutual aid.

**harry hills** · 12th March 2012, 19:52

depends if you want to win or not, i'll always try to help, wheather or not that will actually help things, i try none the less.

**james...venom** · 12th March 2012, 19:56

The floor is all hardox so we dont get any gouges. The edges are all level and each has a 45 degree bevel to avoid hitting the edge if one did get lifted. Some of the panels are very slightly domed which can get some of the very low robots caught. I recommend a ground clearance of at least 5mm for robots. the greater the better.

As was the case in the finals I think debris got jammed between 2 panels which caught Explosion out which was such a shame. This year we will be keeping a close eye on this to avoid it having an impact on battles. Overall the floors are flat together but some have slight dishes from temperature distortion.