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Lifter with Spikes? As far as I understand it was some sort of self righting mechanism(probably in case they get stuck, but bots like that don't really seem to get stuck)? any more info on this would be nice.

It's a lifter. Those spikey bits are wedged, they can go under and in theory tip things over. Or just tip Nuts over to confuse everyone.

Quote from: R01 on July 25, 2016, 02:45:26 PM

I think that's a bit of a problem since there isn't enough room to fight normally?

Loads of room. Even if the bots were 1m square (they're generally smaller) they'd still only be taking up ~1/225 of the arena. It's HUGE and designed well for interesting fights.

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread

« on: July 25, 2016, 02:34:42 PM »

Hi big post time

- Nuts is awesome. So much fun to watch. Nicest guys. The ring was meant to spin around the bot and act as a lifter as the spikes but the gearbox broke. Not a lot more to say here because people that don't like it won't be converted.

- None of this was done cheap.

- You guys analyzing everything really heavily make me laugh. As Kurt noted, 7 out of 6 grand finalists? Don't take everything you see as gospel.

- I don't miss Craig or the music or the pit smoke or the 'slow pit speed'. Things change. Dara actually CARES and is invested, he'd walk around the pits talking to teams in spare time. Craig just sat in his dressing room drinking.

- Editing could be a little better but that's life.

- Arena is genius and huge. So well designed. Nowhere to hide at all, you're either in a CPZ, on a hazard, near a low wall or in the middle, which is the worst place to be tactically.

So promising and so exciting for the future. With 10% audience share on that time slot, and ratings around 2 million, things are looking great!

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Real Robotics Discussion / Re: Robot Wars 2016 Discussion Thread

« on: July 25, 2016, 12:47:31 AM »

I'll make a bigger post when I'm back home from Birmingham (premiere woo) replying to a whole bunch of stuff in here and addressing concerns/questions but for now...

I loved it. :)

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: The General Chatter Thread.

« on: July 23, 2016, 05:13:07 PM »

Quote from: yugitom on July 23, 2016, 02:11:46 PM

Quote from: Naryar on July 23, 2016, 01:55:54 PM
as they started to make up
Did they have an argument over the lick?

Usually it's just a glare or 'stop that' so this is already unrealistic.

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General Support / Re: Crashes after some done events

« on: July 21, 2016, 03:45:36 PM »

Is it certain events that are crashing?

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DSL TC Showcases / Re: 12yearOldPwner's rarely updated DSL showcase

« on: July 21, 2016, 08:38:37 AM »

Yeah it'd be pretty swell if you can get that axle properly supported.

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Off-Topic Discussion / Re: Which state are you from?

« on: July 21, 2016, 04:28:13 AM »

Always wanted to go to Switzerland. Almost did once but the CERN trip we were planning fell through.

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Robots Showcase / Re: Team Trash 'Em/ Team B.R.U.M.M.I.E

« on: July 20, 2016, 03:22:04 PM »

Sort of have a placeholder ant until I have time to make something actually good.
Recent shot from Reading (no prizes for which ant is mine)

(Also to ninja Joelu's edit, the flipper broke before Portsmouth because I broke the servo by being an idiot. New servo is in. It's not good but it works.)

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