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As Tony pointed out we are running the same rules as the European champs - Each robot must have its own seperate driver. This is to eliminate people entering as many robots as possible to have one of them get lucky. Being a large championship we want to see the best of the best, and therfore this rule stops people putting in 6 or 7, and the chance of comming up against each other.
Some of the old rules like 1 robot per team were seen as unfair when 2 different drivers in the same team have their own feathers and only 1 enter.
E-mails will be sent out tonight with all the info about the event.
But the main driver can drive 2 robots when not set against eachother right? That when 2 robots enter from the same team one will drive one and one will drive the other is logical, but when only 1 robot of us is in the arena, I usually drive.
Yeah I see no problem with one person driving two robots so long as theyre not in the same fight. If said two robots go on to meet each other in a fight, as long as youve got a second driver (which should be the case if you stick to the rules) then you can both just drive and fight it out
Matt, Critical Damage - dont know if you remember it from the Xbotz Wales event last year. Big upturned wheelbarrow with a Scottish Saltire painted on it
It wont have the wheelbarrow armour this time though; were going back to the normal wedge shape for it. But my teammate has been responsible for rebuilding it and has done so out of 4mm perspex. So if Miss Scorpion Tilly hits it (assuming that robot is what used to be a Scorpion spinner) then it may well shatter!
Leo, you know you dont want me to drive in a competition. You only ask me to drive when you want to test your robot most thoroughly against self-inflicted damage.
Thats the best feather rep of a heavy weight ive seen in ages, since Kitty then Venom. Though i dont think Kitty will beat venom and 360 like what happened in the heavy weights. LOL. Love it. Cant wait to see a video clip of its first fight.
Thanks stu, Hopefully ill have time to paint the spiral on the disc for this event, Unfortunatly the selfwrighter wont be finished- so im pretty screwed from the start. Ive got all the parts for the arm and all the gears and the astro to power it all, just havnt had the time to machine the gearbox plates up.
Would be pretty awsome to have that 3 way fight but i dont see it happening unfortunatly. I ment to take a pic of 360 next to kitty last time i saw it but forgot, let me know next time its coming for display
Id better show the hypnodisc team at some point aswell lol
Yer 360 needs some more work to get it driving well whilst the disc spins lol. Its abit liek warhead, but worse
If we can sort that out then whoever gets hit by it will wish they hadnt entered lol! (if it works ok on the day that is!)
Its not like you can go straight for it before it spins up either - so id try and keep away :wink:, i know i will.
I would be carefull
360 wont just flip like normal - when the disc spins its like warhead and as soon as you flip it the disc will tilt forward and most likely remove your flipper.
I seeing how little the disc slowed down whilst continually hitting the floor with no power you can really see how much energy is stored in it when its going. That means trying to flip it will be very fun..... for 360
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