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Knightrous
Site Admin
Joined: 15 Jun 2004
Posts: 8511
Location: NSW
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IMHO, I think spinners are the biggest issue of the sport. Now, I don't say this because I hate spinners and think they should all be banned (Quite the opposite), but the damage they cause (I know we love it!) taxes heavily on the builders, who do this crazy hobby for fun.. Now it's just like motorsports, everyone loves seeing crashes, and it's great entertainment, but it's not so good when your the one shelling out the money. Spinners bring not only the costs up for builders, but also for event organisers with expensive arenas to contain all the debri and strapnel.
I strongly believe without spinners, we could have more people with robots able to survive a full event without much work needed between events. Therefore, most people should be able to attend more events regular (pending other commitments). Also, without the need for expensive arenas, we could have a lot more back yard events where only basic safety screening would be adequate.
And yes, less wedges would make the sport more interesting... Or at least wedges with weapons that do something... _________________ https://www.halfdonethings.com/
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Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:43 pm |
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Knight
Joined: 30 Mar 2006
Posts: 111
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Future wise, eventually i'd love to see it as big as the UK scene, with all weight classes and maybe even televised events.
On a more practical note, I don't think we need to change it to make it more appealing to the masses, i mean, throw 2 spinners in the arena and watch the damage and destruction caused i think should be plenty motivation for the masses.
I think we need to let them know. We have the big events in first Melbourne and now Brisbane. We need a public event in Sydney.
Are the all terrain competitions the way to go? not necessarily, they are something different sure, and yes would not be a bad thing to get running as regularly as the main comp. But originally that concept was to make "hugging the ground wedges" obsolete, as we go on and on, those wedges are becoming less and less prevalent. It makes a good starting robot, because you don't have to worry about a weapon, but the builders themselves are moving past them, because they want the more challenging bots.
I don't think scaling down the size of combat is the way to go, i think having the larger weight classes is definitely the way to become more known. Yes they are harder to have an arena for and of course transport, but bigger bots = more destruction = happy masses. And happy masses means opportunities for TV shows, sponsorship, etc, etc.
The UK and US competitions must logically have been at the same size we are now once upon a time. Look where they are now. Some of us go to the US for the RoboOlympics each year, maybe in the future, we can host an international event.
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Sat Nov 29, 2008 11:05 am |
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