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Hi Ian, many thanks and I am doing my best to have something.... trying to utilise an old RC car I used to race... let's see how I get on. Will let you know as soon as possible.
Regards
Cliff
Hi Ian, I intend to come to the show probably as a spectator. Please do not worry about providing lunch for myself, although a cuppa might be welcomed.....
Many thanks. Cliff
Hi Graham as you may know the event is being held at KB Technogies CNC machine shop and we would rather not take the risk of having younger children on site at the current time. We hope in the future to have a separate upper area for the pits which I hope will make it possible for Key stage 2 children to attend as they will be away from the machines but still able to view all the action.
We also intend to host some events away from workshop, making use of a local school's facilities. Obviously this will be a much more suitable environment. As a father and and a retired teacher I'm very sympathetic to your situation and I'll try to ensure you'll be able to join us sometime in the near future.
I was interested to hear any follow up comments about this event but it seems
strangely quiet, was it a success?, this is important as we do need a venue up
north.
I was unavailable and was slightly taken back by the idea of a entry fee-yes
only £10 but that seemed a phaff through pay pal.
It's quite costly to build a Robot and attend an event with all the traveling
and hotel costs so it's probably best to rollout the red carpet for roboteers
and charge a viewing fee if possible or advertising fee.
Good point. I think it went well seeing the AW and the BW beating each other up. I did record some of the fights, but the problem is I forgot the robots names, I was never good with names.
The entry fees all go towards building and maintaining a safe arena/venues for the events to take place, without them the events likely wouldn’t be able to continue - none of the above is cheap
Other events do have the paying audience (Robots Live/Extreme Robots) but Robodojo is intended more to be a club for the members to meet up and battle robots rather than be a ‘show’ put on for an audience - a lot of US events use this model and it works out well for them, and means that the events are sustainable long term. Even then, the entry fees really are good pricing wise. - it’s not much extra to tack onto your robot budget and the cheapness of hotels/airbnbs in the area more than makes up for it. I personally have zero qualms with it and I’m more than happy to pay per event if it means we have somewhere (much closer to home too) to go play more regularly!
Having been to the inaugural event the other weekend I can definitely say with zero doubt it’s well worth it per event, and like I say it means we have somewhere up north for antweights, beetleweights and featherweights when most events take place relatively far south for all three classes.
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