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Spockie-Tech
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Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Thats a whole 'nother subject..
In brief, the biggest problem in most cases is Public Liability Insurance. If you want to invite the general public to the show, then you need it, and its not easy to get at a reasonable price just for a RoboWars event unless its a part of a bigger package (like SideTracked or The Ideas Festival in Bris). If you can get the Venue Owner or Festival Operator to cover you, things are a lot easier.
Then you need an Arena. To build a good free standing featherweight Arena similair to SideTracked's would cost between $4000-$8000 in Materials and Labour. Given the work and expense it took to truck SideTrackeds arena to Brisbane and back, I would say its probably more cost effective to build your own as part of the budget for the first state event and then you get to keep it (storage area required).
After you have an Arena and Insurance, the 2 hardest bits are out of the way, then its down to the typical event details like staff (judges, schedulers, tech inspection), security and crowd control, administration, promotion, pit areas, lighting, sound, presenters, cameras, trophies, prizes, scheduling, life-support for the public (food, toilets, parking etc) and so on.. nothing to it really..
If you want to talk more on the subject, reply here, and I'll split the relevant messages off into a new thread so we dont SideTrack The RoboWars thread already. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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