Tin Pot Challenge Cup

[typhoon_driver]

Too small and restrictive? You have every kind of design of weapon allowed in the featherweights from spinners, pneumatic and electric flippers, lifters, rammers, axes and crushers. The heavyweights are the dull weight category in comparison.

All that I can see this class ending up as would be hardox box vs hardox box. There is little point in trying to dilute down the number of machines in different weight categories. Attempts were made before to bring the lightweights and middleweights back. They were never popular during robot wars so they are unlikely to be popular in the future.

The wooden idea I liked because it was easy to understand and there was a basic rule set in place and the majority of folks in the featherweights have spares that could easily be used to throw a machine together. However lack of events did hinder it.

[PJ-27]

Machines made out of scrap?! What a most excellent idea!

Maybe the wooden robot idea isn't dead yet.

[craig_anto]

The idea is, that it's a challenge, building or entering a feather you made of scrap is a bit easy,
Lightweights offer a different challenge to a feather, you can almost use heavyweight parts in a lighter chassis or you can use beefy feather parts with a thick chassis.

Some might build fat feathers, some will build skinny middle/heavies but the idea is to build something new from something old. Remembering that wedge bots, spinners are banned and robots must have an active weapon.

I'm leaning towards the idea of scrap bots rather than price limit and I potentially have an event in late July/early august. I work abroad most of the year so would defiantly be a summer event most likely outdoors. Event will be in Burntwood Staffordshire.

As far as I'm concerned you will either be interested in participating or you won't be, either is ok it's a personal choice, I'm building my bot around Easter time.

[Bodge Job]

Yeah scrap bots would be better than a price limits as price limits prevents the use of multiple expensive weapons (like pneumatics) and there could just be a ban on excessive milling and any work with CNC to prevent stupidly powered flippers and stuff. And do all spinners have to be band or could low speed, small diamiter ones be alowed? Because I would have thought that they could be used with out polycarb as they would carry little more KE and little more danger than axes and flippers?