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Cage or no cage?
I havent seen the cage but I am very interested by it if it makes for longer fights.
You never know, you might get lucky and find that Robochallenge have added a cage to their arena which might help stop Hornet throwing itself oota
On a serious note, I agree with the fact that no group is more important than the other. Roboteers need the event organisers and the event organisers need the roboteers - simple. We depend on each other, thats how this sport works and succeeds. Although some of the celebrity attention is enjoyable - getting asked for autographs, photos etc - as soon as the roboteers genuinely believe they ARE celebrities (and Im talking about the trashy celebrities here that think everyone loves them) then comes a slippery slope that will cause rifts and arguments.
Not trying to insinuate that anyone in this community is like that, everyone is perfectly sane and down-to-earth here
But if it was to happen then that is when it would become clear that no group is more important than the other
I like the idea of the cage. Havent seen it first-hand but its an attempt to keep things fresh and improve the quality of fights for the audience and that is what is beneficial in this sport.
As for roboteer viewing, with most people on 2.4GHz, why not mingle with the audience and control your robot from the audience perspective
Yes I know there would be various safety issues such as communication if sudden deactivation was required, but just imagine how special it would be for that little kid in the audience to have a roboteer sitting next to them whilst controlling their robot in that fight
I havent seen the cage but I am very interested by it if it makes for longer fights.
You never know, you might get lucky and find that Robochallenge have added a cage to their arena which might help stop Hornet throwing itself oota
On a serious note, I agree with the fact that no group is more important than the other. Roboteers need the event organisers and the event organisers need the roboteers - simple. We depend on each other, thats how this sport works and succeeds. Although some of the celebrity attention is enjoyable - getting asked for autographs, photos etc - as soon as the roboteers genuinely believe they ARE celebrities (and Im talking about the trashy celebrities here that think everyone loves them) then comes a slippery slope that will cause rifts and arguments.
Not trying to insinuate that anyone in this community is like that, everyone is perfectly sane and down-to-earth here
But if it was to happen then that is when it would become clear that no group is more important than the other
I like the idea of the cage. Havent seen it first-hand but its an attempt to keep things fresh and improve the quality of fights for the audience and that is what is beneficial in this sport.
As for roboteer viewing, with most people on 2.4GHz, why not mingle with the audience and control your robot from the audience perspective
Yes I know there would be various safety issues such as communication if sudden deactivation was required, but just imagine how special it would be for that little kid in the audience to have a roboteer sitting next to them whilst controlling their robot in that fight
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