Quote Originally Posted by swanaldo
There needs to be a basic rule set really. It would be exremely difficult to judge a 4 way mellee and get it right. For competition fights that is. white board is what it is and its fun.

Lets say...Iron Awe vs Envy.....now i flip iron awe 4 times and he flips me 4 times and we are just as agressive as each other along with style. would the win go to ironawe because or their awsome weapon which is more spectacular?

Another..... Thor vs ripper......ripper flips thor 6 times and thor gets 6 hits on ripper. again much the same on aggression and stlye. who wins that one.

its a big can of worms the judging lark.
I think that judges decisions will always be to some degree contravertial because it's an opinion. If you try and fix a rigid set of rules then the wrong robot will win in quite a lot of cases.

Take for example Hydra vs Thor at Portsmouth. Thor dominated the fight really but Hydra got a lot more hits in with the axe. So if the rules say one axe hit, means on point Hydra would have won and it would have been the wrong decision.

Another example Hydra vs Envy at Portsmouth. Hydra and Envy to be honest performed well in the fight so it was really a close call. Envy was very agressive but Hydra broke down and escaped an awful lot of attacks. So in the new rules, how many attacks trying to do the same thing would you have to make before you start to lose points? Or how do you score good defensive driving? I would have been happy with that decision either way.

At the end of the day I would hate that the judging came down to a prescriptive set of rules without allowing judges to use judgement and decide on the 'feel' of the fight.


If you don't want to be on the bum end of a bad decision then knock the other robot out!

But more seriously, surely the solution is that you use respected judgess.

Andy