Robo Challenge - 2013 FRA UK Featherweight Championships!

[RogueTwoRobots]

Just out of interest, how strictly is the 'clear your pit table for the next day's competitors' rule going to be enforced?

I remember last year that those who arrived on the Saturday really struggled to get a space due to a lot of the Friday robots still being there. Not to sound moany and self-interested, but with two robots to run on Saturday, I don't really fancy doing what the likes of Calum and Jonny had to do last year and use my toolbox as a pit bench.

[Eventorizon]

Ditto... David was very kind and shunted up for us last year (were were basically sharing the same slot) but with a second machine that won't be possible this time.

At the rate we are gaining entries were are going to need a bigger venue next year! Or we will just have to ditch the bloke selling drills and Gazebos and pinch his spot

[calumco]

yeah last year was a bit of a squeeze pits wise, wouldnt taped out pit zones help? 1 per robot sorta thing to keep peoples stuff in equally sized bays

[Bodge Job]

20m / 50 robots... 40cm, nice, robots can be packed side to side :P

[RogueTwoRobots]

Won't make a difference if people don't move their robots after Friday :P

We've got two robots so based on half a table per robot, that's one table we'll be using up. If it makes anything easier, I'm happy to form a 'tag-team' with another 2-robot team qualifying on the Friday and just let you keep your stuff stored under that particular table on the Saturday. Tempted to make a wooden shelf/stand for the table as well, just something that can sit over the robots and provide a bit of extra space, pimped out with LEDs of course.

[Eventorizon]

20m / 50 robots... 40cm, nice, robots can be packed side to side :P

20m between about 25 robots as we are not all in on the same day... gives 0.8M per robot! More than enough!

[typhoon_driver]

Oh man up you bunch of jessys

[grant_ploughbot]

This year we have added more pit space and increased the number of tables from 12 to 16. This should give everyone half a table per robot with a lot of room spare. It is VERY important not to just take up a full bench or two like a number if people did last year, and even more so to remove your robots after your competition day. It's not fair on others who are tight for space when they are competing. We will be very strict on this! We have allocated extra tables to allow for whiteboard robots etc, but please be aware that we still need to be careful with these things.

[PJ-27]

We got their late last year and found all the pit space was gone on Sat, there should be enough for each team! Don't make me put my name on it!

[james...venom]

There's was plenty of space allocated to each team last year, 3ft. The issue was people leaving their tools/robots there which will not happen this year. Any team that does will be deducted points. A big difference is we have had teams with multiple robots qualify on the same day with both machines where possible. This way people won't have Fridays robot under the bench while competing with their sat robot. This was fair and understandable however did take up more space.