Attention Beetleweight builders!

[harry hills]

There is the possibility of the beetleweight arena being at the Robots Live event in Deeside on the 21st/22nd of September and I was wondering if people still have their beetleweight robots and would bring them along or would be still be interested in building them if there was an arena to fight them?
Thank you.
Harry.

[swanaldo]

Harry is right. I have bought the arena. I will be doing it up during the weeks leading up to the Deeside event and if its still all ok with Alan will be making its debut at the UK champs. The first build of the arena wont be a competition but a trial. Even if no Beetleweights turn up at all the arena will. The beetleweights have been dragged on enough for people. The Arena IS being finished. The build pictures will be on Bigconkers.com. there are some rule changes but only to an advantage. will leave Harry to update progress, arena specs and updates.

Shane

[Andy]

this has motivated me to start working on my kilobot again, yeah I'll try and get it ready for the event

[swanaldo]

Andy...We have rounded up the weight limit to 1.5kg....just to round it up, no other reason so bear that in mind when rebuilding.

[Andy]

yeah ok thanks for that, works in my favour as my parts were a little on the heavy side

[PJ-27]

Is that Kenny's arena he was making?

Glad one is being made, I'll now finish mine!

[swanaldo]

yes i have bought Kennys and Toms one. Pick it up Thursday. Harry Hills will be running it too with help from Dave Weston. Interest is good so far but i think there will be more when there are pictures of the built up arena. Got some good plans planned too.

[PJ-27]

Excellent, thanks for finishing it!

Stopped work on the BW when there wasn't an arena. Pleased to now have a reason to finish it, I'll see you soon!

[Danjr1]

Morning,

What will be the slight rule changes?

[swanaldo]

The 2 main things will be the weight. Going up to 1.5kg. No reason apart to do a nice round number and it falls in line with the ants at 150g...beetle...1500g....Banning the use of hardox for armour. Hardox discs are fine. The fights will be 3 minutes long...there will be a counting display so your not robbed of time. The arena will be themed. Decided to call it The Slaughterhouse..... So you might get some idea of the theme. I dont want to say tooo much about the arena and how it will look...but i will promise something different. Build pictures will be on my website as it goes. Alan has confirmed the arena will be at the deeside event. Like i said even if no machines turn up at all....the arena will be there hopefully to inspire some to build.

[Max]

Just curious, would hardox be allowed for a FBS? As that is techniqually the disk and the armour.

[Ellis]

^^^ Cylindrical hardox? Suppose it could be watercut out of a thick plate but that's getting pretty serious!

[swanaldo]

Yes....a full body spinning hardox robot would be good. The point to ban hardox armour is to encorage weapons. Hardox boxs are just a no. If you want to build a pushing machine then make it outragously fast and powerful....but not from hardox. Try Titanium...at least that makes nice sparks. Or something different like the saint. Just dont bother building a hardox wedge cos it will be pointless...litterally. I have seen some fantastic designs and inventiveness just latley and i really believe this weight will be the making of some very nice looking machines.

[Bodge Job]

awesome! i will have to dig out my old parts! and weight was my oly issue, the new weight limit will solve my problems!

[duff]

If I can make it to this event I'll definitely be bringing one. I've been planning on building one for ages. I think this class has huge potential. The hardox rule is a good idea too. My only worry is that everyone's going to just build stupidly powerful spinners, and there won't be much variety. Mind you it would make for some awesome fights.