Team Saint Robot Builds

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In antweights, almost anything without wheels passes as a walker and gets 50% weight allowance, and yet still almost no one makes them; I won the 'best walker' award at a previous AWS because I entered the only walker! So even if the rules did count cam based shuffle bots as walkers and gave a big weight allowance, I don't think there would be a sudden explosion of them.

we can't have exploitable rules that would allow shufflebots to gain a massive advantage

I don't see why not? If you're putting the effort in to building a walking mech, you're accepting a hit on mobility to gain extra weight. Even a simple shuffle mech is difficult to do well and and light weight enough to give you weight spare for weaponry. Even if other weight classes went with the extreme of ant rules with 50% extra for a basic shuffle bot, I think we'd see one or two shufflers which would be a good thing, but I doubt any of them would be winning an event any time soon..