Author Topic: World Combat Robot Championship (Read 11734 times)

helloface · « **Reply #20 on:** July 14, 2013, 05:27:31 PM »

They must have built a heavyweight version of Ziggy.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #21 on:** July 14, 2013, 05:40:58 PM »

Oh yeah, I forgot about Son of Ziggy...

Resetti's Replicas · « **Reply #22 on:** July 14, 2013, 05:44:32 PM »

Yeah, that's it. I don't know its flipper power off hand, but its SHW counterpart is one of the most powerful, and they said "North America" instead of "America" or "The US" leading me to believe the robot in question is Canadian.

qwertythe300th · « **Reply #23 on:** July 14, 2013, 06:05:46 PM »

Quote from: Sonny_Resetti on July 14, 2013, 05:44:32 PM

Yeah, that's it. I don't know its flipper power off hand, but its SHW counterpart is one of the most powerful, and they said "North America" instead of "America" or "The US" leading me to believe the robot in question is Canadian.

Watch it be mexican

Anyway, Do you think any British bots will be interested in joining?

Resetti's Replicas · « **Reply #24 on:** July 14, 2013, 06:46:40 PM »

I only know of one British builder who is, and it's more for a lark than serious competition because his bot has a flamethrower.

Tweedy · « **Reply #25 on:** July 14, 2013, 06:54:01 PM »

At least he knows it won't break with the solid hardox forks.

Resetti's Replicas · « **Reply #26 on:** July 14, 2013, 07:32:59 PM »

Which reminds me, isn't Hardox tough enough to deal with most US spinners? That's what I heard anyway, ergo it's pointless to build spinners in the UK anymore even if the rules did allow it.

Badnik96 · « **Reply #27 on:** July 14, 2013, 07:43:30 PM »

Quote from: qwertythe300th on July 14, 2013, 06:05:46 PM

Quote from: Sonny_Resetti on July 14, 2013, 05:44:32 PM
Yeah, that's it. I don't know its flipper power off hand, but its SHW counterpart is one of the most powerful, and they said "North America" instead of "America" or "The US" leading me to believe the robot in question is Canadian.

Watch it be mexican

Dude Son of Ziggy is from Canada. That's kinda why he brought that point up.

Tweedy · « **Reply #28 on:** July 14, 2013, 07:44:23 PM »

Depends on the thickness, US spinners will go through 3.2mm though which IIRC is what uk flippers use. The solid hardox will easily take anything thrown at it though.

helloface · « **Reply #29 on:** July 14, 2013, 08:24:47 PM »

Was the original Ziggy Canadian?

qwertythe300th · « **Reply #30 on:** July 14, 2013, 09:10:42 PM »

Yea. Calling him Mexican was a joke.

Also, Do you think team RioBotz would be interested in joining? In would help with it being "World" Even more. We could see Canada, Brazil, USA, and maybe UK then, maybe in the future Australia and -fingers crossed- India.

Probably Rob · « **Reply #31 on:** July 14, 2013, 09:13:05 PM »

Quote from: qwertythe300th on July 14, 2013, 09:10:42 PM

Do you think team RioBotz would be interested in joining?

Oh, my... yes, yes. Oh, my... YES!

Camaro Kid · « **Reply #32 on:** July 14, 2013, 09:14:43 PM »

Quote from: qwertythe300th on July 14, 2013, 09:10:42 PM

Yea. Calling him Mexican was a joke.

Also, Do you think team RioBotz would be interested in joining? In would help with it being "World" Even more. We could see Canada, Brazil, USA, and maybe UK then, maybe in the future Australia and -fingers crossed- India.

Australia would, just not as many as it could in the future

Badnik96 · « **Reply #33 on:** July 14, 2013, 11:29:07 PM »

Quote from: helloface199 on July 14, 2013, 08:24:47 PM

Was the original Ziggy Canadian?

They were made by the same team...

qwertythe300th · « **Reply #34 on:** July 15, 2013, 05:18:15 PM »

How durable is tanto? It looks like it could take some american hits. But I do agree. Most of the UK's Flippers (Ripper, Beast, Behemoth) Look like they would be sliced very easily by some american bots. Also, how thick is Eruptions Armour? It honestly looks the most durable bot out there.

Camaro Kid · « **Reply #35 on:** July 15, 2013, 06:56:41 PM »

Quote from: qwertythe300th on July 15, 2013, 05:18:15 PM

how thick is Eruptions Armour? It honestly looks the most durable bot out there.

Vert said that its armour is 4mm thick Hardox, apart from the base which is 3.2mm Hardox

playzooki · « **Reply #36 on:** July 18, 2013, 01:12:06 PM »

Its pretty much how all the winners of the Robot Wars World Championship were from Britain.

A way to make it fair would be to make it hosted by a different country every year

Conraaa · « **Reply #37 on:** July 18, 2013, 01:16:32 PM »

And then the problem would lie in the stupendous cost of shipping the arena all over the world.

Kossokei · « **Reply #38 on:** July 18, 2013, 04:07:35 PM »

Quote from: Vertigo on July 18, 2013, 01:34:42 PM

Quote from: playzooki on July 18, 2013, 01:12:06 PM
Its pretty much how all the winners of the Robot Wars World Championship were from Britain.

A way to make it fair would be to make it hosted by a different country every year
Quote from: Conraaa on July 18, 2013, 01:16:32 PM
And then the problem would lie in the stupendous cost of shipping the arena all over the world.
These two posts sum it up. It's impossible to have a fair and practical world championships. Call this the American champs, fine, but it will never be the world championships.

I don't really pay attention to sports, but when there's a 'world championship' of something that requires an arena, don't they build many seperate arenas for each country to have, funded by that country?

I don't see why you couldn't host a grand tournament in the main arena of each country, weed out the best of the best of that country, and then the best of every country duke it out in which ever country is hosting the main event.

Kossokei · « **Reply #39 on:** July 18, 2013, 04:34:05 PM »

Quote from: Vertigo on July 18, 2013, 04:25:32 PM

You don't get the point. The "country hosting the main event" would still be biased to robots from that country.

And that would take a huge amount of organisation. Especially since the RFL tend to blank the FRA.

Yes, and if a football team from Australia were competing against a football team from England in an English arena, I'm sure that the english would be biased towards the english team too.

Yet, the australians would still stomp them.

A win is a win, bias or not. I don't see what your point is.