Theres ways round things, this isn't about full combat its about entertainment. Ive been pleased that people have realised it.

If a solid one piece disc is fighting against a robot with sacrificial armour it can in my opinion be done safely.

You were hit by a bolt.... that means the robot had enough power to break it... so we put in the rules thicker bolts for pannels, or remove them altogether, theres always ways round problems, we are engineers, we find sollutions.

Yes I agree a class 2 arena is needed for full combat, but I think theres room for movement. We ran fw spinners for years until they got too powerful, Im proposing instead of building an arena to suit the robots, ( never going to happen ) we build robots to suit the arena.

The FRA shut the door on all spinners, what im proposing, is to experiment with them and find a safe level.

Even if we had a spinner running at such a slow speed it stopped everytime it hit something, put it against a robot with pannels designed to fall off..... then we have a new form of entertainment which I have recognised is lacking from RR events which can be put back in in a safe way.

Im proposing we build a set of stage props, not full combat robots, and its something I will be experimenting with through the summer with some of the teams who have volunteered to get involved with.


Spinner v spinnner would be a no no... thats not what we want.
Spinner v an axe.... or spinner v a low pressure flipper.... and you have entertainment.

It might work, it might not, but unless we try, we never know... thinking out side of the box once again.

John