Stacking outside the chassis

[J]

I can vaguely recall cease being called when Hypnodisc "exostacked" another robots battery for them :P

Its not Hypnodisc's fault the opponent had batteries on the outside.

[SKBT]

Yeah most times bots don't work if their batteries break or are lying somewhere else in the arena. :P


Judges can end a match at any time if there is a saftey hazzard. I've only ever seen it enforced once and that was because of a battery fire. I've never seen a match called by judges because of a battery hanging out.  Most times the driver will tap out if the battery on their bot is hanging out because by then you are screwed.

I think that a bot with an exposed battery would fail saftey and not be allowed to compete.
 

[J]

I've only ever seen it enforced once and that was because of a battery fire.

Thats why they made that ref-bot, which has a fire extinguisher attached to one of its arms.

And you forgot about Dreadnaut, who used a Diamond-edged saw blade.
Appearently it was illeagle, so they ended the match and had the blade removed.

[SKBT]

I was talking about my personal combat experience with current combat rules in the US.

Also I don't compete in the UK on a now defunct for TV compitition so no refbot. :P

[JoeBlo]

bah the only good thing refbot did with its extinguisher was fighting Sgt Bash with it :P

[G.K.]

And you forgot about Dreadnaut, who used a Diamond-edged saw blade.
Appearently it was illeagle, so they ended the match and had the blade removed.

That is new to me. Don't you mean Pussycat with a hardened cutting blade?

[J]

And you forgot about Dreadnaut, who used a Diamond-edged saw blade.
Appearently it was illeagle, so they ended the match and had the blade removed.

That is new to me. Don't you mean Pussycat with a hardened cutting blade?

If I recall, Pussycat's blade literaly 'exploded', and they had to stop the match for a moment to fix the issue.
I forget why, but it was something like that.

EDIT:
The fight with Dreadnaut was also one of the better ones.
All the house-bots went after Dreadnaut because they didnt like how shiny it was. It was such lulz

[NFX]

I thought it was Trident they went after because it was shiny.
 

bah the only good thing refbot did with its extinguisher was fighting Sgt Bash with it :P

And attempting to put out Sir Killalot when he drove over a flame jet. =P
 
I don't I've seen a bot with the batts mounted outside the chassis. Apart from Splinter, though they were put there by accident.

[J]

I thought it was Trident they went after because it was shiny.

Triden/Dreadnaut, I forget. I just know he looked like a dinosaur.

Oh, and Ref-Bot also had a camera mounted to it, for close-up action shots.

[JoeBlo]

for the off topic saw blade discussion Cerberus had a spinning blade that they were not allowed to use 

now back on topic