OOTA

[glen]

OOTA

well did you think of having hinged sides - i.e 4 wedges around the robot and have a small extractor fan underneath. that way it creates a vacuum which will suck the wedges onto the ground giving a 0 ground clearance. the vacuum wouldnt be to harsh so you could still drive.

[jim]

OOTA

Just a few ideas - Ive not got much experience in battle so this is all theory...

Use a skirt - a strip of steel attached to hinges on the side of your robot, so that it trails on the floor. If done right this should stop a flipper or wedge from getting underneath your robot, and you can still have high ground clearance for the main body of your robot (= less chance of grounding.)

I belive Panic Attack and a few others have used skirts like these.

If you place the hinges half way up your robot this could work for invertible robots. Also, if you want it to follow the contour of the floor better, you could divide the skirt up into several sections. You would probably want to round of the corners of the skirt so they dont dig into the floor while youre moving.

I think this sort of thing would be easily torn off by spinners, so you would need to consider it an addition to your normal armour. You just need to hope you dont meet a flipper and a spinner in the same match.

[team_ireland]

OOTA

What we really need is a steel floor and then we could all use magnets. Another option would be to try a BITA decive (Back In The Arena)

I.e. some sort of device that might throw you back into the arena

Regards
Ian Mc Donald

[storm]

OOTA

Skirts are a VERY effective way of dealing with flippers.

[robjones]

OOTA

I thought tonights heat C final between Dantomkia and IG-88 was a great win and a brilliantly executed flip but disappointing as it was over so quick. Bring in 6ft fences!

[maddox]

OOTA

Im afraid 6 feet fences wont do in series 8.

[typhoon_driver]

OOTA

go crazy then and have 6ft 6

[big_nipper]

OOTA

Then only 6 8 people could se over them.

[Guest]

OOTA

Time for a BBots style area - nowhere to throw them into.

[Guest]

OOTA

Nah, OOTA is fun!

[big_nipper]

OOTA

Disagree, Bouncing around is much more fun. Maybe they could leave a section out so that theres still a change.

[bugs]

OOTA

After next weeks episode, OOTA may not be that much fun anymore
I agree with the open section. That would make ik more chalanging.

[gravity]

OOTA

1 open section DOES sound like a good idea ! Or just one complete side of the arena thats open, and the other 3 closed... That way you have to not only be able to flip your opponent oota, but also have the drive to point them in the right direction ! The side of the arena thats facing the control boxes is nice... Robots tend to bounce back in there

[big_nipper]

OOTA

Yeh, DTK did that against that black thing last sunday before doing it again at another side and getting it OOTA (Sorry guys having a memory lapse, cant remember the name).

[jamesb]

OOTA

If DTK had done that to Scorpion Id have been impressed!

Sorry Mark, I knew you were refering to Dantomkia.