A return to television

**mattsdragons** · 1st June 2011, 21:00

Why not bring back typhoon 2?

**typhoon_driver** · 1st June 2011, 21:02

It's not my machine and it's still busted up from when it last faught in the US 5 or 6 years ago. There are plans to rebuild it purely for display and small demo purposes

**john_frizell** · 1st June 2011, 22:24

Thanks for posting those videos Gary. It was a great show. I will make it back to Robogames next year - it is far and away the best robot event currently running anywhere.

Combots has not lost interest in feathers - they have places for 16 of them and as of today only two are registered. You can get a feather on the plane as checked luggage - that's what I did last year. Combots is also running 1 lb, 3lb, 60 lb, 120 lb and 22lb robots.

**dcalkins** · 1st June 2011, 23:26

Originally Posted by john_frizell

Combots has not lost interest in feathers - they have places for 16 of them and as of today only two are registered. You can get a feather on the plane as checked luggage - that's what I did last year. Combots is also running 1 lb, 3lb, 60 lb, 120 lb and 22lb robots.

I'll add in the autonomous 1 and 3 pound classes. Just haven't yet.

**PJ-27** · 2nd June 2011, 09:40

I suppose Beetles would be a nice easy option to take across the pond! You could carry them in your hand luggage, just remove any sharp blades and what not...

I'ts funny how a lot of the American robot were similar to eachother but very different to those in Britain. The block o' cheese flipper is big here and the Fit-as-many-tyres-as-I-can-on-a-ram-bot-shaped-like-a-VCR is popular there. Would be interesting to see how they would stack up against each other.....

Flippers don't seem to be big and the semi's was 3 rambots and a Hori bar spinner!

**woody** · 2nd June 2011, 11:43

I'ts funny how a lot of the American robot were similar to each other but very different to those in Britain.

It's essentially two evolutionary pools... Americans have BIG spinners to cope with ..thus the bots ... that wish to survive them .. are pushed towards a certain design.

We have no Heavy weight spinners... that can compete due to Arena / Insurance restrictions .
We also have regular shows to attend / put on .. Bot builders in the UK are thus driven in a different direction.

**mattsdragons** · 2nd June 2011, 12:04

To a degree, I feel British fights and bits are better since we have to use tactics to win battles and our bots have to be agile were as the USA bots just need to spin up and get one good hit, they don't seem to use proper tactics

**PJ-27** · 2nd June 2011, 12:22

Surly that is a tactic? Hell, I wish my tactics were to just spin up and win! Although Late Rites did take silver......

**typhoon_driver** · 2nd June 2011, 13:10

worked for me in robot wars

**psychostorm** · 2nd June 2011, 13:12

Originally Posted by woody

It's essentially two evolutionary pools... Americans have BIG spinners to cope with ..thus the bots ... that wish to survive them .. are pushed towards a certain design.

Could someone explain why the pool without the spinners has robots with the hardox wheel covers?

We have no Heavy weight spinners... that can compete due to Arena / Insurance restrictions .
We also have regular shows to attend / put on .. Bot builders in the UK are thus driven in a different direction.

I feel that the UK heavyweight category, in the absence of spinners has become very showman like.