Poll - Full Combat Competition

[terry]

tom you are propably refering to leeds when you say your name was rubbed out, i was under the ussumption tiberius pulled out against toon raider, eruption and toxic and wondered why.
isn't that what happened ?

[cliveb]

We have fought Tiberious in the past and lost motors,gearboxes and a speed controller.Would Alex fight it again? I seriously hope he would.We are one of the teams Jonno has mentioned about going out to Robo Games in the future ( cashflow permitting) so we certainly arn't running away from spinners.
In my opinon Toon Raider is a fighting robot, and not an ornament. Just watch me at the Featherweight Champs to understand my take on full combat events

[marco]

it´s robotwars ... we are not playing chess ... :wink: so for me : Full contact and no backing out ...
If Tiberius is in Maidstone Hades will be happy to fight ...

[marco]

And if you´re going to robogames ; Count me in !!!

[Eventorizon]

I know I am new to the game but I think we have missed something here...

Because RW was a TV show, Mentorn pushed and encouraged teams to destroy each other. Now, without the pressure of TV, there is no reason to say that if someone wants to pullout they can't.

I am personally of the view that we are here to fight, no matter that cost. My fight against NST cost me most of my robot and around £500 and yet I would not hesitate to enter the arena should I be drawn against NST again. Its about the redesign, the improvements, the development and design of the machines as much as it is the fighting. I can't wait for the day I am able to return the favour to sam and beat him fair and square and If I loose half a robot in the process then the design clearly was not good enough. Sam asked me after the fight why I stopped and then decided to start again - simple, the robot could still drive so I could still win the fight!

When it comes to the Heavies, it is rather dull. :| All the flippers seem to be built from the same blueprint and all the interesting machines like Kan-opener, thor and Tiberius are feared for the damage they might cause. If you took one of our heavies to the US for robo-games and it was drawn against Sewer-snake with its flame thrower or even worse Last Rights what would you do?

But as many people have pointed out, without a Class 1 heavyweight arena this is all obsolete. If someone is secretly building a new Heavyweight arena, PLEASE TELL ME! I want an excuse to make a heavyweight Conker, something that could take on Last Rights and win!

[psychostorm]

Call me cowardly, but I'm largely here for fun & entertainment. I can't do any of those with no working robot.

Not really the spinners I fear - it's the owners. I'm not using up all my limited resources & holiday to get trashed as a chew toy for an ingallant spinner owner with an Hypnodisc fixation.

[john_frizell]

One way to go to Robogames on a budget is to build a 60 lb machine. [They don't have feathers, 60 lbs is the smallest in the main arena]. That way you can take it on the plane as a single suitcase, stripped down a bit to make the 50 lb weight limit for a single suitcase, and carry a second suitcase with the bits you took off, tools etc. That's what I did this year and it all made it in two suitcases along with several 1 lb and 3 lb machines for the little arena. Or take two feathers and fight them as a cluster against a 60 lb machine. There is no requirement for a cluster to enter the arena as a single machine.

[robotwars]

John, see your point but, if I'm
Going I'm going with ripper to properly represent the uk with some style :-)

[psychostorm]

I'm sure if we were to plan to turn up with 10 featherweights, Robo games would at least have a rethink on the category.

Like the clusterbot idea though.

[PJ-27]

I can imagine a couple of UK FW machines taking on a LW successfully. Imagine LS4 and NST teaming up :s