UK championships 2006

[big_nipper]

UK championships 2006

Heavyweight version of litter spinner

[jamesb]

UK championships 2006

litter spinner?
how appropriate

[Mouldy]

UK championships 2006

Jonno,
I dont think Full combat all year round would be a good idea. Featherweights are easyer to repair when theyve fought a spinner. To fix a heavyweight in time for the next event a month later is alot more work. Also it will mean the working life of a robot would be cut very short compaired to what it is atm...So people wont be able to attend your events as often as they do atm as they will be to busy repairing from there last encouter with a massive hammer or a supper spinner. One or two Full combat shows a year, i would of thought, is enough.

[big_nipper]

UK championships 2006

It is when it flys apart

[babeth]

UK championships 2006

What does atm mean please ?

[cavecrusher]

UK championships 2006

at the moment

[killercarrot]

UK championships 2006

sadly I have to agree with Dave, I dont mind getting chopped to shreds (again) but Ive not got the time or cash for rebuilds these days...
more importantly for you (RR) what might happen is that you would end up being able to run a morning show, but not have anything but a bunch of duct taped limping shells in the sfternoon...and nothing for day 2...and maybe not enough entrants at all for the next months event?
Or are you oversubribed for events ?

Of course if we are optimistic it might spur us on to greater things.. and put robot combat back in an upward spiral

You could always run a few brave boy fights as a show climax, but its going to be a lot of extra grief putting up a level 2 arena if no-one wants to play tough

[typhoon_driver]

UK championships 2006

i think the idea of a few full on fights is a good one.

[robotwars]

UK championships 2006

keep the opinions coming, no suprises really.

Not many people will fight em all the time.
A couple of full on ones a year is enough.
Grudge matches are popular, but they are a lot of extra work for one fight.

John
http://www.roamingrobots.co.ukwww.roamingrobots.co.uk

[blazerbotics]

UK championships 2006

I agree, theres no way i would put any of our heavys in full-combat on a regular basis. Alot of roboteers i have spoken to over the last year or so alot have basically said that when there current robot is knackerd they will retire, putting them in with spinners will only shorten the lifespan of most robots and eventually the sport.

The other thing that could happen is whats currently going on with the feathers, theres a couple of big spinners, so eveybody (me included) have built Hardox boxes just to last until the end of the fights, so we could end up with a couple of heavy spinners then, anybody willing to build a new bot would just make hardox boxes, as it would be the sensible thing to do if fighting against destructive machines regulary.

One full combat event a year is enough, and then most people will require either a big title or prize fund to compete. Fighting the likes of Thz and Kan-Opener is bad enough at friendly shows without worrying about how many more LEMs Geoff has put in Scorpion!

[craig_anto]

UK championships 2006

personally id be up for it there arent many full combat robots left none of which really worry me but thats jus my opinion, as for the hardox boxes that are likely to come of it, new Tanto is jus that was always going to do stuff spinners i want something thatll last without me having to do anything to it repairs wise anyway.
i say bring em on u only get better when u get beaten

[geoff]

UK championships 2006

Alan,
John has so far put 2 LEMs on our disk...there is no room for any more!!
We look forward to full combat as you know, but we can see the potential problems with making every event full combat.

Geoff & John,

P.S. Just coz we got 2 Lems it dont make it faster...just nearly unstopable!!

[killercarrot]

UK championships 2006

does that mean faster at getting it stuck in the arena sidewall Geoff ?

[craig_anto]

UK championships 2006

thats what Ed thought Geoff

[anukhet]

UK championships 2006

Litter Spinner LMAO!

Aw cmon, Ive been away from here since the beginning of the week and it was only posted 2 days ago