Are consumables counted when a robot is weighed |
Yes, the tanks must be full |
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No, the tanks can be empty |
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30% |
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leo-rcc
Joined: 04 Aug 2006
Posts: 231
Location: Hoogvliet, Netherlands
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Ok, compromise. You can weigh your robot with empty batteries.
As a rule my robots are way underweight anyway (Hannibal went in the FRA champs at 91.4kg with a full bottle, Hannibalito 11.6kg), but i understand that there is always tension on the weight rule.
The reason robotwars favored co2 so heavily is simply because you need to put more parts in the robot for co2 to work then an electrical weapon. And for variation it made sense to give co2 weapons an edge, so more people would build co2 robots. All for the show, because robotwars was always a tv show first, a competition second. Furthermore mentorn took into account that robots would be built with standard stock pneumatics which also weighs quite heavy, even though this is pretty much no longer the case for any of our robots anymore. Within the FRA the robotwars allowance has been continued because most of our rules are perpetuated from robotwars anyway.
For me it doesn't matter that much, in my filosophy is that you can build to 100kg's, wether you put 1 bottle in or 6. If the rules give me a 2 kg edge, fine, but i dont really need it. And it doesn't matter to me if my opponents weigh 100kg, 102kg, 12kg, 12.6kg, 13.6kg, or 14.2kg. Ill flip them all, axe them all, or spin them all.
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Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:41 pm |
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