So if we leave it all down to the EO's and they find it financially impossible to run live events what do we do then? no safe enviroment to fight our robots against eachother, no warm and dry and safe venues where we can leave our stuff without having to worry about things going missing or getting wet if it rains. Most other competition sports and hobbys charge you to be a member or take part. For example with racing, you cant just show up at an official race meeting and race your car for free. you have to pay an entry fee, even if its none competition, that fee you pay pays for your insurance cover for that day of racing, track maintainance etc. Jonno didnt say we all pay for everything then he owns it. He said there could be a subscription fee. And I can understand why there would be. I think there should be a fee even with the current live shows that happen, even if its only a few quid, Like what was said at Robots Live the other week we are using loads of gas, alot more than we need to use. It is gas that there supplying to us for free, because its free to us we dont really think about stuff like only having got 1 or 2 flips in the last fight so there should be enough co2 in the robot to last another fight, The co2 just gets dumped and the bottle refilled. You could say if they didnt supply us with co2 we wouldnt have these good flippers that draw the crowds in to earn them money, but the audience arnt paying to see the co2 get dumped. With no big TV deals and funding and publicity like robot wars had its got to be hard for the EO's to do there live shows and earn money. So we should be helping out if we want to keep fighting our robots.