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Fish_in_a_Barrel
Joined: 30 Sep 2006
Posts: 673
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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I'm not quite sure that you can evolve the sport this way. All I can see is that this will create another requirement on builders. Most builders won't have the time or money to run two similar bots with 6kg difference, so either their bots will have to be modular, 13kg, or restricted to the superfeatherweight (SFW) class.
At 13kg, they will be at a disadvantage against heavier opponents, modular will require two sets of parts to be used for different competitions and SFWs will only get to compete in selected competitions. How many arenas are built to hold a SFW version of high power rambots, who are already bending the melbourne arena out of shape?
People are starting to move into lightweights, whether it's a team with lots of parts like Gary's, or in a combined effort like Glen and Angus are putting together, or even the matched cluster bot from Aaron, and Andrew.
Each different class of building has their own strengths and weaknesses, and if you don't like one class, move yourself, not everyone else. If builders want more weight to play with than move into lightweights, otherwise they can stay with the cheaper featherweights.
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Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:33 pm |
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Knightrous
Site Admin
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 8511
Location: NSW
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okays heres a question for you to answer my robot wheelie-good bot is at 13.6 killograms but it has no weapon its just a ram bot
Your running a pair of 200watt scooter motors They are heavy, powerful motors. You could shift down to a pair of 100watt scooter motors and save half the weight, giving you that bit more weight to play with.
Chris, for 4 years you've been pushing the weight limit to go up. I don't know what your trying to achieve, evolving the sport doesn't require us to move up the weight classes or build bigger bots... If you want to play with bigger bots, start pushing for an active lightweight competition, I know Gary and George are game, and they built the bots to that class.
If your trying to make it easier for new comers to build due to that extra bit of weight, you will still find people turning up with bots that have no weapons and are chasing more weight... I really think what your after is Ultibots, you can play with a lot of stuff there, and you'll only have to travel to VIC to play, which would be different for you since you've never headed interstate before _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
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Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:55 pm |
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