I think that Jonno's cages have addressed this problem.

sorry didnt realise this as i dont go to rr hw events. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and i can take critisim, The only thing i find a bit annoying is anyone who tries to make a suggestion gets a bit talked down too. or that's how it comes across?? as if im thick because i scratched the crap out of my car with my hw and the next man didnt ....

people will build mw robots with wheelchair motors, we cant all afford flash custom gearboxes etc..... people make fw's out of drills, when their are gold motors etc.....we all dont want to just buy/afford all the best stuff so it aint false economy!!

im just trying to get my ideas and suggestions across, this is probably why so many dont add any comments to this thread, other eo's etc...... theirs nothing wrong with people disagreeing with your comments, thats fine, i just think sometimes it comes across a bit sarcastic and if were thick or have crap ideas, in the way responses have been made to suggestions.

all i can say is their is definately something wrong as this thread wouldnt have started and had so much input, and with smaller numbers, i wouldnt blame it all on the recession!
Obviously your not a HW fan ady, but if you came to an RR HW event, out of 3 shows, we will now only have about 1 or 2 OOTAs, the cages have stoped that and we have some very exciting fights which do last the whole 3 minutes or their is a knock out
ummm yeah jonno i am a hw fan, i have been watching fighting robots as long as you im sure,perhaps it just takes a bit more to entertain me,
the only reason i dont go to hw events is because my hw isnt finished, and i dont think its worth the travel/cost of tickets to attend to just watch. i find it entertaining if your in a competition just not soley to watch

i dont come to many events as im only interested mostly in full combat. hence i will always be at a robochallenge event when possible, i love to watch hw's, just only variety.

out of interest out of 40 active heavyweights i see you get about 1/2 attending to any of your events, except the one where you had 9, are these the same hw's most of the time? is their anything that can be done to get the other hw's out? or what can be done for people to build more hw's?

i will join the others i think, and just sit and read (think how many havent commented!) and why is that do you think?