Quote Originally Posted by maddox10 View Post
I agree on the "not totaly destroy the opponent after the machine/team gave up".
But as long the opponent even tries to fight with the leftovers of the machine, it's fair game.


On workshops. How do you quantify that into the cost of a robot?
Or the skills of the teammembers of each team.
A pro welder , or a electronics genius are "more expensive" than uncle bob and his blue PowerPlus anglegrinder.
I'm not saying it's something you can quantify or even regulate, but I do think it's important to give newcomers with lower funds a chance against the more expensive and established machines. I don't know how you'd do this, perhaps some kind of regulation of sponsors is something to think about, but it was more of a statement that I agree with the motivation behind Katch's armour idea, just not the practice itself. Of course skills and time and jobs are a lot less quantifiable in terms of the cost of the robot, but I think we're talking about this purely from a funding point of view.