2009 FRA Heavy Weight UK Championship.

[botmad]

mike you can only score your top 8 so if you fight every fight and say get 1 point in each out of say 17 fights you only score 8 not 17 like it says at the top of this thred top 8 scores count .......

i think thats how it will work anyway ... well thats my grab on it :P..... pete

[swanaldo]

Mike i think that the points will be taken from the best 8 results of the year. So if Puck did do what you said it would have only 8 points. Well thats what I gathered from Jonnos origional post anyway. I might be corrected.

[craig_colliass]

Id rather fight Puck than the Tupperware Tomahawk any day!!!

[pressure]

Ahh, that makes more sense Pete, its still lost its event status though.
Tupperware Tomahawk Craig!!! Thats fighting talk!

[robotwars]

how do mean its lost its event status mike?

[john_frizell]

What are the implications of this for feathers|?

[pressure]

Simple, it is not an event in its own right it is a feature of all the (RR) events for the year. On the plus side it might encourage roboteers to attend more events.

[swanaldo]

With a £2000 prize fund. And with no-one putting in a bid to do a uk champs at all Jonno was good enough to use the league.....which he was going to do anyway... and try and do a uk champs from it. A good idea i thought cos its better than nothing at all mike

[john]

£2000 prize fund should encourage most people to attend - so many bots would could come 2nd place - only 1 bot who i can c rly winning it

[bbrcaz]

I like the concept of a longer championship and the idea to count only a limited number of results is a good one.

However attending a minimum of 4 qualifying rounds (to make 8 fights) + the final would be a big push for us and I would imagine quite a number of other teams.

If we were to attempt 5 championship rounds it would certainly leave little or no time to support other event organisers and this is my main issue with this format.

As a technicality:
If you do compete in 8 qualifying fights as suggested you are still at a slight disadvantage because you have to include you worst results, as someone who has fought more can discard those (that are potentially against the better robots).