Interchangeable panel limit?

[razerdave]

Here is what constitutes major robot bits:
Chassis
Drive motors
Batteries
Electronics
Weapon system
John changed 3 out of the 5 for Beauty 7 (which used 5's chassis after the change, (7 was Ti, 5 was Hardox I think?) , so you know, Ceri). So in future, I would say that would make it outlawed. At the time is was legal and was judged by the Event judges at the time, so no hard feelings an no harm done, just felt a bit odd to me.

My apologise to John if I sounded rude at all. I have a lot of respect for you and your machines .

[RogueTwoRobots]

I remember reading a similar discussion on this forum years ago, in which the general consensus was that you could interchange parts within a machine to your heart's content, but if you packed an entire spare chassis or started replacing large portions (>50%) of the current, possibly severely damaged, one, it constituted a different machine. I still consider that to be the case.

Not kicking up a stink about what happened at the champs as it's been and gone, but I think it's something that needs to be given more consideration, especially as it's a particularly toasty subject

[Mouldy]

Johns just a big bender ...

Basically if his drive kept falling apart thats his fault for using rubbish components and his robot should of plodded along on the lame bits he built it with until he learnt his lesson for next year... you cant just go oh well this robots drive and chassis and gearbox's and wheels are rubbish im going to use last years instead now...oh and because there different motors i need different batterys and escs etc etc

IMO.. the robotwars/battlebots rule needs putting in place... new chassis = new robot.

either way the FRA need to come up with a rule to stop this happening again as i wasnt very happy with it at the time... personally id just ban learo lol