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Rotwang
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I am trying to explain that out events are not some sort of circus side show, we really do have real fights.

Brett has changed his mind and there is no intention of changing any of our rules to disadvantage wedges.


No one is running down your events.

You didn’t get to the last Annihilator either so don’t have a go at us we were at an event promoting the sport both days that weekend.

We are well aware of your thoughts you have stated them often enough in the past.


We aren’t forcing our opinions on anyone, Brett and I prefer to run and compete in public events and we work towards that.

You prefer your private ones fine.


We are not insisting anyone attend its your choice, you insisting we go to your event when private events aren’t really my thing seems a bit unreasonable to me.


Obviously I am one of those who enjoy public events for a number of reasons.

Philips glib remark about our motivation for our involvement in robot combat is to “ have fun” might sound good at first glance but I don’t really appreciate being told why I should be doing something.

Have fun falls a long way short of explaining my thoughts, motives and reasons for being involved.
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Personally I don't think it matters if it is a public event, a garage event or just meeting in some car park out the back somewhere I just want to build robots and test my designs. I prefer to do this against as many other different robots and their builders and/or drivers as possible. That is why I always like to travel interstate (and overseas soon) to see and compete against as many robots as possible. If you want to have the best robot in the world then you must be willing to go out and fight everyone else out there. If you limit yourself to just one small group of builders then you will just build robots that are adapted to compete against that small group and may have little or no chance winning outside in the wide world.
This is an engineering exercise: All possibilities must be explored.

As for public events, They are a great way of publicizing the sport compared to a small group of friends meeting in a backyard. If the sport is to grow, we need more builders. We won't get new builders if no-one ever knows that it even exists.
After looking into the history of our sport I believe that it is only when people try to make a profit from the sport that trouble begins (eg. Steve Plotnicki and what he did to Robot Wars). But I don't think that anyone hre has those sorts of ideas.

Get out, have competitions, encourage new builders and have fun!
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Forget about robots, my money is on Chris Laughing!

Like Chris, I can take audiences or leave 'em. I only go to interstate events for the extra excitement of battling new bots and given the huge expense, if Chris and/or Jeff put on an extra event around the same time I would probably stay home and spend the money on upgrades. It's not like we had a huge audience on Sunday anyway...

Now I think about it, for the cost of flying five Sydney guys down to Melbourne, accomodation, two hire cars, etc, we could build a pretty reasonable arena or upgrade Jeff's to be really amazing. How about that?
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Post Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:57 pm 
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Hey your all chumps, Bort and I worked out our total costs for heading down, for everyhting, fuel, food, tolls it cost us about $120 each.

True we knew ppl in melbourne to stay with, and they most generously fed us most meals while there, but it is possible to do on the cheaps!

I did suggest we hire a mini bus for all of us to drive down too!

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Ummmm not tryin to stop the rant or anything but wasn't this thread about flipers/bricks/spinners
EDIT: fixed my shyte spelling
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Let them rant. I've seen the same argument before from the same people, with the same opinions. In the end it will be "let's agree to disagree".

You edited your post to fix you're spelling?????
I can still see two mistakes not including the "um"

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Laughing BAM

Yeah, everyone loves a good argue once and a while... well, some people... Smile
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quote:
Originally posted by Grassy:
Ummmm not tryin to stop the rant or anything but wasn't this thread about flipers/bricks/spinners
EDIT: fixed my shyte spelling



The fundamental interconnectedness between the rock, paper scissors game balance and the desirability to put on an entertaining show at sidetracked was the reason for adopting the Damage, aggression, control, and style judging criteria for the Robowars comps.

It’s a free country; other comps can do what they like.

Builders that compete at Robowars can just ignore the public if they wont and concentrate on winning.

Some builders go out of their way to help out, Andrew spent a lot of time letting audience members drive his robot etc. Cool

As for Chrisjon guess I will have to be ready to talk to him in 15 years. Smile
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Post Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:38 am 
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quote:
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". You edited your post to fix you're spelling?????
I can still see two mistakes not including the "um"

wat i edited out was the incomprihensable bits lol
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Post Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:46 am 
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Fair enough Smile
Well then I propose a contest between Grassy and Andrew. The person with the least comprehensible post wins.

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I think you mean "incomprihensable" XD
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