Id be well up for a fixed location Class 1 arena. Not having a big audience wouldnt bother me and im sure wouldnt bother alot of people, I go to events to fight robots and talk to people. Having a fixed location arena and not much of an audience would mean there was less of a show. The putting on a show part takes up alot of time, Im sure people would be happy if they got more fights with there robot over a weekend like at the robo challenge events. We could always take off from where robot wars finished and have a filmed show where we just have a series of knockout rounds where every fights filmed and catagorised into heats, once a full series is done release the full series + Side attractions + Competitions on DVDs. Plus you could still maybe do the more popular venues. Id love to see some heavyweight spinners in the arena too.
If it ever came down to the EO's having to stop doing the shows, All the roboteers would have to chip in to help set somthing up. Everyone would be left with two choices, help out funding and work wise or quit doing somthing they love to do and not be able to use them robots they have put so much time effort and money into. If to enter a robot into a weekends event it was a tenner it would be worth it to the roboteers. Pay a tenner to use your robot or have for example grands worth of robot sat there doing nothing. If sombody takes one robot to an event every month you get 120 quid that you wouldnt have had before. Say you average at about 40 robots per event with the heavys and feathers your getting nearly an extra 5 grand a year, Plus maybe charge for CO2 even if its not alot just a few quid from each person thats using gas for the day.