Mentorn declared robots such as Storm 2 and Tornado boring and made them apply weapons, in storms case the lifter, in tornados case having little weapons such as lifters or rotating toothpicks on each wedge they applied.
They missed the point though, it is the robot that is the weapon.
Regardless of thier philosophical short-sightedness, they missed the point that by allowing Torando to use its charity event scoop, storm 2 version 1 should have been allowed to eneter.
But Storm 2 version 1 had no weapons at all. Tornado did have some sort of working part on all of its scoops.
Im not sure thats the case. Unless youre talking about spikes, and storm 2 does have spikes- I have one of its spikes that got broken off at worthing.
Tornado didnt have any working part on its scoop George until Series 7.
Ed
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Have the full results of RW7 & the 3rd World Championship been posted on the Team Storm site, Ed?
quoteMentorn declared robots such as Storm 2 and Tornado boring/quote
Thats robots that charge around the arena at rather high speeds and smack into things at rather high speeds and also smack things into walls at rather high speeds. Oh, and causing damage, too.
Shows how much they know about robots...
A boring robot is one that gets under the opposition once, drives to the edge and flips them out within 20 seconds. Or one that gets under the opposition once (usually within 20 seconds), squeezes it a few times without letting it go and then drops it in a corner (if its broke by then) or down the pit (if its not).
Sorry, should have mentioned i was talking about Series 6 contest. Yes, it was apparent that Tornado had no moving parts on the disc - but for series 6 they were classed as interchangeable weapons. Hmmm. I think it may be another example of inconsistent thinking from Mentorn.
A boring robot is one that gets under the opposition once, drives to the edge and flips them out within 20 seconds.
Two of the more memorable fights of the last series were Dantomkia doing that to IG-88, and Gravity doing that to Dantomkia! Neither of those fights or bots were boring!
Its just a matter of opinion Eddy. Some people find flippers very boring. I personally dont.
Oh yes, and on my last post disc should read wedge.
I think further to the no weapons debate, Robot Wars should have kept the Battlebots school of thinking going and allowed all pushers or wedges in anyway, even if they didnt have a working weapon. They can be very interesting and successful and there are many examples of this. Its better to see a well built pusher slam Robots around the arena than see a Robot with a rubbish weapon break down after a few hits.
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