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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #40 on: July 18, 2013, 05:25:48 PM »
All football arenas are the same.  But in robot combat, Britian uses an arena where you can throw your opponent over the barrier, and America uses one where you don't.  The home country has a huge advantage because they get to decide whether or not there will be walls.


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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #41 on: July 18, 2013, 05:27:55 PM »
All football arenas are the same.  But in robot combat, Britian uses an arena where you can throw your opponent over the barrier, and America uses one where you don't.  The home country has a huge advantage because they get to decide whether or not there will be walls.
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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #42 on: July 19, 2013, 05:11:29 AM »
Kossokei, pretty much everything you're saying is flawed. You can't make the arenas the same because then they wouldn't be suitable for the robots that regularly compete in them. Our arenas are never going to change that much, neither are the American's.
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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #43 on: July 19, 2013, 12:41:35 PM »
I agree with Vertigo. Although it would be awesome, it would cost a lot of money to do and generate a lot of arguments between the two sides.
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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #44 on: July 20, 2013, 10:06:03 AM »
This whole argument is stupid.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #45 on: July 24, 2013, 04:33:02 PM »
The best idea would be to do the arena hazard free (like in Combots) but make it where you can Oota. That way there is comfort for both bots in the arena. Still spinners would be a problem, Would a robot like Touro be damaging to British bots? I can understand Brutality and Last Rites.
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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #46 on: July 31, 2013, 11:13:06 AM »
So from what I've seen on FB there are going to be two Combots-style tourneys each year, as well as smaller, Robot Wars style tourneys every two months or so. Also, there will be a house robot.

Also, the first tournament will not have spinners, but it will be spinner-friendly for the first "world" championship.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #47 on: August 01, 2013, 11:35:16 PM »
So from what I've seen on FB there are going to be two Combots-style tourneys each year, as well as smaller, Robot Wars style tourneys every two months or so. Also, there will be a house robot.

Also, the first tournament will not have spinners, but it will be spinner-friendly for the first "world" championship.

This points the hopes of the whole international thing in a better direction.
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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #48 on: December 08, 2013, 11:03:51 PM »
So from what I've seen on FB there are going to be two Combots-style tourneys each year, as well as smaller, Robot Wars style tourneys every two months or so. Also, there will be a house robot.

Also, the first tournament will not have spinners, but it will be spinner-friendly for the first "world" championship.

This points the hopes of the whole international thing in a better direction.

But the odds of teams still going over could be slim

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #49 on: December 18, 2013, 12:40:23 AM »
No spinners in MW/HW ? What are they, Robot Wars ?

Did we mention we are bringing back house robots…

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #50 on: December 18, 2013, 02:05:29 AM »
Did we mention we are bringing back house robots…

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #51 on: December 18, 2013, 03:11:04 AM »
Yeah, the only spinners will probably be the rubbish ones in order to exert "flipper superiority" and the chances of seeing an Eruption vs. Last Rites style bout are as slim as ever.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #52 on: December 18, 2013, 07:57:17 AM »
No spinners in MW/HW ? What are they, Robot Wars ?

Did we mention we are bringing back house robots…

kill it with fire

Their arena isn't strong enough yet to handle the big spinners.

Seconding the second point. House robots are lame.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #53 on: December 18, 2013, 12:41:38 PM »
It didn't fail, we still have great attendance at events. The only reason Robogames died was that the EO got tired of the sport.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #54 on: December 18, 2013, 01:31:56 PM »
House robots are surely a positive step forward. The main reason Robot Wars is going so strong over here is due to how much it has been adapted to a show. As much as everyone says that they're "not fair" they can be kept out of the way whilst competition fights are ongoing.

Unfortunately the "no house robots" and "no arena hazards" approach that Combots/Robogames took failed (as far as I can tell anyway) so surely adapting the events to increase popularity from an audience point of view has to be a good thing.
It depends what they are going for. If its a competition for the roboteers, then house robots are bad.
However, if its for the audience, the house robots are good.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #55 on: December 18, 2013, 01:42:55 PM »
All they gotta do is aim for the classic Robot Wars, without sh**ty judges or any other scandal like the end of Series 7.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #56 on: December 18, 2013, 01:49:42 PM »
And, I might get some hate for this, but A CLOSED PIT AFTER ROUND 2 PLEASE. The pit is to dump an eliminated robot, not a panic room for when you're getting the sh** kicked out of your bot. No more Bigger Brother vs. Hypno Disc, Corkscrew's round one loss in S6, Beefcake vs. RC Warrior (no matter how fun that fight was to watch), or the controversy made by Tornado's frame. Tough as Nails now has to drag its opponents elsewhere.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #57 on: December 18, 2013, 02:10:56 PM »
No more Bigger Brother vs. Hypno Disc
Get out.

If your main weapon breaks up, then you have no chances to beat your opponent anymore. That's kinda stupid for a tournament like Robot Wars.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #58 on: December 18, 2013, 02:14:03 PM »
House 'bots were cool, but I feel like now they aren't that necessary, since we aren't being televised. As far as the arena hazards, I think we could just have something like combots and it would work well, and maybe throw in a few saws or add spike strips.

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Re: World Combat Robot Championship
« Reply #59 on: December 18, 2013, 03:14:34 PM »
Get out.

If your main weapon breaks up, then you have no chances to beat your opponent anymore. That's kinda stupid for a tournament like Robot Wars.
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