FRA UK Featherweight Championship 2014 hosted by RoboChallenge

[Eventorizon]

I'm not worried about axebots, I'm worried with this:

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How big were the bolts holding those armour panels on? 6mm or 8mm? I am still a little worried about the back of C3 as it only has 2 M8 bolts holding the armour on at the rear (Per side). Though there are not many Horizontals anymore.

[overkill]

Trouble is, our weapons only count if we are facing the axe bot; if we get pinned from the side, we are going to take a couple of hits. I plan on super aggressive charging to take out axe bots ASAP.

Sorry for the noob question: how is the annihilator run? Is it optional, run after or before the main rounds, how do I sign up for it?

[geeza]

Annihilator is optional yes, usually run after the first round is complete and one or two of each type of robot is picked to enter. Normally 6 robots.

[overkill]

Trouble is, our weapons only count if we are facing the axe bot; if we get pinned from the side, we are going to take a couple of hits. I plan on super aggressive charging to take out axe bots ASAP.

Sorry for the noob question: how is the annihilator run? Is it optional, run after or before the main rounds, how do I sign up for it?

[overkill]

OK, Thanks for the info.

[RobotExtreme]

Hi Alex,

On impact 7x M6 12.9 was cutted like butter lol

4 on sides and 3 that was holding gearbox. Plus 2 bent M6 on botton, but i need to agree that was because the horrible desing and not just because NST hit.

No joking, im sure that if a vertical or drum robot (Bink p.e ) hit the rear of C3, will hit the roof of arena.

[RobotExtreme]

[Ellis]

I'm worried about basically the entirety of Rango. The design is far less chunky looking in real life than in CAD. If I envisage a massive hit, basically anywhere on it, it doesn't lend itself to standing up. The design is as much a building exercise (tried to cram a wide range of stuff that needs making) as it is a solid box to take the hits. Just hoping, if it's at all reliable, that I can combine the small drum and speedy drive and control the fight. Of course in reality that never works with a massive spinner in the ring!

Maybe I'll trust it more once wedge is on. The hardox plate should seriously stiffen up the whole chassis.

I'm still unclear, are this year's qualifiers 1v1 or a 3 way melee like previous years?

[PJ-27]

My assumption was 1v1 but would like to know for sure.

[geeza]

with 4 qualifying battles each we are hoping to spread the points out more as last year if you didn't win a couple by knockout you would be pushed to get through. Also with 4 qualifiers thats 8 opponents which means everyone should get a better blend of opponents.

That would mean 3 way melees.

[RobotExtreme]

very prob 3 way, but i would like of see an entire 1v1 competition, in my opinion would be better...with 3 robots on arena a lucker guy can win 2 better robots, depends of who hit who first...with only 2, we have sure that the best will win.

[overkill]

I was watching the qualifiers from last year and in some matches two bots would be going at it and the 3rd bot would hang back until it was attacked. Its a valid tactic but it means the bot that stays out of the fight has an advantage later on in the match as its facing maybe only one opponent that is already damaged.

[razerdave]

I understand guilherme's point, turn your back on your other opponent for a second and you could end up skywards, or scattered to the 4 corners.

[psychostorm]

Sorry for the noob question: how is the annihilator run? Is it optional, run after or before the main rounds, how do I sign up for it?

Annihilator entry is invite only by the event organisers from the working machines that are not in the semifinals. The criterion are variety of weapon, potential missed in the main competition and, well, winning last year's annihilator.

What make & model is the weighing scale?

[grant_ploughbot]

As Ed pointed out it will be 3 way fights for the first round. We do this for a number of reasons, one of them being that a 3 way fight often means that you are fighting 2 other robots of different types at once and if you can beat them both it shows the diversity of your machine. If a bad robot hangs back and doesn't attack until one is out then that scores very badly - if they do manage to get a second position in most fights then it's very unlikely to get through to the next round.