2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

[Team Invade]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

[quote=PJ-27]
The plates of hardox can have a small gap between them though as Explosion found out last year....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGRhTkZK3mo

[RobotExtreme]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Honestly this is really bad!

As usually works when a robot gets stuck in the arena, the opponent usually disengages it? In general, how works the mutual aid.

[harry hills]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

depends if you want to win or not, i'll always try to help, wheather or not that will actually help things, i try none the less.

[james...venom]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

The floor is all hardox so we dont get any gouges. The edges are all level and each has a 45 degree bevel to avoid hitting the edge if one did get lifted. Some of the panels are very slightly domed which can get some of the very low robots caught. I recommend a ground clearance of at least 5mm for robots. the greater the better.

As was the case in the finals I think debris got jammed between 2 panels which caught Explosion out which was such a shame. This year we will be keeping a close eye on this to avoid it having an impact on battles. Overall the floors are flat together but some have slight dishes from temperature distortion.

[typhoon_driver]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

It's about the best combat floor you will find

[Mouldy]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

I carnt use 360 at heavyweight events due to it being to low (wide wheel base with small wheels and 4mm g/c) but it drives fine in the robochallenge arena. In all fairness if you get stuck in this arena... You need a re-design.

As for spinners vs the floor;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knAuvNBo ... ata_player

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Would people be interested in Audio intros much like those on Robot Wars?

No one?

Made a quick mock up.

http://soundcloud.com/pj-belcher-pro...allenge-intros

Sounding good PJ! Although as has been mentioned, the voice manipulation for the robot names does make it harder to hear properly when combined with the sound effect. I imagine it'd probably work just as well if the voice stays the same as the location snippets.

And the 'From somewhere unpronounceable in Wales' comment made me laugh

[PJ-27]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Thanks Jamie. I have a plan for the robot names to make them much clearer.

[PJ-27]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Looks like the audio intros are a go, so could everyone please email me their stats.
I get a lot of emails every day and about to receive 40 more! So could you please keep them concise and to this format. Much appreciated.

Subject: RoboChallenge 2012 Intro

Location / Team Name: eg. Birmingham / Team Big Nipper
Past Awards / Current Seeding: eg. 2008 Champion / Number 4 Seed
Miscellaneous: eg. Representing Whales
Robot Name: eg. 'Eat Ya Face'

Your Name (So I can keep track)

Thanks guys!

p.j.belcher@hotmail.co.uk

[PJ-27]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Thanks for your emails so far guys, Dave makes a good point though.

Can you please include any pronunciation (or certain wording) of odd Robot names.

For instance Dizzy 102.2

Dizzy one-oh-two-point-two.

Or,

Dizzy one-hundred-and-two-point-2

Thanks!

[psychostorm]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Alright, if you insist. If you are so much difficulty with it:

Swansea. Swan-Sea

[PJ-27]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Haha, cheers for the clarification Ceri, was struggling with that one.

[Anttazz]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Is it Swansea? I remember looking something out you had given to Jamie last year in a envelope with your address on it and it was about 30 letters long, the first 5 of which all seemed to be A

[psychostorm]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Is it Swansea? I remember looking something out you had given to Jamie last year in a envelope with your address on it and it was about 30 letters long, the first 5 of which all seemed to be A

Was that Maesygwernen or Cwmrhydyceirw?

Now there is somewhere unpronouncable in Wales...

Swansea is an unrelated English name - the Welsh is Abertawe. Swansea city FC would have started top of the premier league with that name.

Sorry off topic.

[PJ-27]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Hey Everyone! Thank you for your emails got 15 teams so far.

Just letting you all know I'm putting a cut off date on when you can get your stats to me.
This will be Monday 19/03/2012. Due to become very busy very soon so looking to get the recordings done equally promptly.

Here's a quick reminder of what I require:

Subject: RoboChallenge 2012 Intro

Location / Team Name: eg. Birmingham / Team Big Nipper
Past Awards / Current Seeding: eg. 2008 Champion / Number 4 Seed
Miscellaneous: eg. Representing Whales
Robot Name: eg. 'Eat Ya Face'

Your Name (So I can keep track)

Thanks guys!

p.j.belcher@hotmail.co.uk

ps. RoboChallange have sent me a list of competitors, some with Locations. So if you miss the recording date chances are I can still make something, otherwise it'll just be your robot name.