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Re: Spinners at Robot Wars/ Roaming Robots and Robots Live
It still comes down to whether the EOs are prepared to take the risk at the end of the day, and that's not just related to whether it adheres to those 2-out-of-3 regulations, but also to the build quality and integrity of the weapon. I would normally be gently poking and prodding about the possibility of running low-KE spinners at events but I'm looking at it more now from an EO perspective due to the Scot-Bots stuff.
A team such as Big Nipper could make a nice low-KE spinner satisfying those regulations and, as roboteers, we know due to the quality of their engineering it would be fine. At the same time, a rookie team could come in and also make a nice low-KE spinner meeting the regs but the build quality and integrity is more of an unknown as they're new. Either way, the EO can't be 100% sure of the safety of both teams' weapons so unless the arena can contain any potential failures, it's too much of a risk to let them run. If they did, and something happened, it cold potentially invalidate the event grading and, in turn, invalidate any chance they have of their public liability insurance covering costs.
EDIT: What John said :P
It still comes down to whether the EOs are prepared to take the risk at the end of the day, and that's not just related to whether it adheres to those 2-out-of-3 regulations, but also to the build quality and integrity of the weapon. I would normally be gently poking and prodding about the possibility of running low-KE spinners at events but I'm looking at it more now from an EO perspective due to the Scot-Bots stuff.
A team such as Big Nipper could make a nice low-KE spinner satisfying those regulations and, as roboteers, we know due to the quality of their engineering it would be fine. At the same time, a rookie team could come in and also make a nice low-KE spinner meeting the regs but the build quality and integrity is more of an unknown as they're new. Either way, the EO can't be 100% sure of the safety of both teams' weapons so unless the arena can contain any potential failures, it's too much of a risk to let them run. If they did, and something happened, it cold potentially invalidate the event grading and, in turn, invalidate any chance they have of their public liability insurance covering costs.
EDIT: What John said :P
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