You are right Craig. Were talking about combat here. Our robots are supposed to take damage because that is not only the name of the game, but the purpose as well.

Mario and I have a simple philosophy: If our robot cant take what its got coming, then its not worth its place in the arena.
We do however believe in extensive testing during demo fights before joining the White Board fights proper. But once we put our robots name on that White Board we are engaged to the consequences.