Ant or Feather

[beast]

im going OPEN then

[andrewmahoney]

If you take away boxes there wont be any featherweight championships....its a great starting point for new roboteers and if hooked, they can move on to bigger and better things ! What would be a bonus is if there were readily available CO2 ram kits, like the one I have just bought from Mario. Without guys like Mario what would I do ?! And looking at the enthusiasm of Tom, Andrew, Michael, Shane, Will etc. etc., without (safe) boxes to begin with, where would be the next generation of roboteers ? And what would the shows be like without the kids ?

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Does this mean that they have banned flippers, as most of the flippers have a wedge shaped front.
There are always L shaped flippers but that may mean that probably only Mini Mighty Mouse would comply with this particular ruleset :wink:

ban pushers? 4 words

over my dead body

[john_frizell]

I dont think there is any move to ban pushers and would certainly oppose one if there were. The NERC rules are not relevent to us and I think there are some in the US who regret introducing them because they split the feather class into two sub classes. A good pusher vs a spinner makes an excellent fight and a weak pusher against a spinner is good for the audiance who always like to see bits coming off robots.
The proposed weight increase to 13.6 kg for feathers is a good idea and I hope it is approved.

Whilst sitting here reading this thread, I was just thinking. Instead of trying to ban Spinners and Pushbots (edit - sorry, Full Body Hammers!) ,why is no-one rewarding those bots that do reach a certain criteria of entertainment value?

(Message edited by Psychostorm on October 02, 2007)

(Message edited by Psychostorm on October 02, 2007)

[beast]

What would be a bonus is if there were readily available CO2 ram kits, like the one I have just bought from Mario

they are available just ask Mario and others
but its tiem and exspensive.

[leorcc]

CO2 is nice, but there are plenty options to use electric weapons, like axes, lifters, even flippers even though not as easy, crushers, you name it.

Its amazing what people can do with a motor, some gears and an arm. Warrior SKF is a nice example, all be that a heavyweight.

(Message edited by leorcc on October 02, 2007)

[typhoon_driver]

i say build more spinners

Its very easy to build something that will spin a mass up to a high velocity. The very tricky part that few (none that come to mind) have been able to master is being able to dish out the damage again and again without taking damage themselves. Thats what puts most people of along with their sheer danger.

and allow more spinners at more compititions to!

With the new arena rules from the FRA which in my opinion were needed an event organiser now has to shell out a large amount of money to be able to build an arena that can safely contain a spinner.

Simple weapons are not hard to build. A motorised axe is actually surprisingly simple and whilst it is hard to get anywhere close to the power of a pneumatic axe *thinks about beta* they are effective weapons.