Quote Originally Posted by k_c_r
Whats more important... the buzz from the show and entertaining... or building and fighting robots to the death.
Some of the roboteers in Australia have a similar setup. The fee for this year is $100AUD (~£60) and I believe some of that went to replacing the floor of their fixed location arena. They've also started beetleweights/kilobots this year. I'm sure if Glen or someone reads this they might be able to provide more info on their setup.

So to summarise, I would support such an idea
Depends on the state, but in nsw its $100 a year and the money just goes into general repairs or upgrades on the arena through the year (its in another roboteers backyard in the shed mind :P) just redid the floor with the moneys this year and we're starting a portable beetleweight arena soon just to mix it up. take it around to different builders places, have some social events etc. 7 years of doing featherweights once a month was wearing on us all a little i think. doing sportsman, normal featherweights and beetles with alot less events this year so that seems to be alot more fun so far

the few public events we have done are exciting from a builder perspective, but in the handful we've done with respectable crowds theres been no new builders as a result. so no one is really too keen on doing any more unless were asked tho the qld guys are running a tutorial + event at the state library up there so hopefully that will create some new builders.

with the hordes of builders in the uk 100 bucks a year should be able to get you a good location like the OP mentioned. im sure having it in one location wouldnt be a problem. after all for the distance it takes us to drive from sydney to melbourne for an event we could drive across your entire country haha i joke :P