I was having a bit of a think the other day of a new event/tournement we can do after the main AWS, I cam up with this:
Robot Roulette
Basically, everyone would enter 1 robot from their team (I'd want it full combat so spinners go in too), and the names go into the hat, I call up a random roboteer, they pick out a robot and they would drive it for the duration of the tournement. Then the person whose robot just got drawn gets to draw a robot for themselves, and so on and so forth, so we would get a complete mix up of robot types with driver types/styles, to see whats more important, a good robot or a roboteer that can drive well ?
It would also show how people will cope with robots they're not used to in design terms, for example, Andy Hibbard driving Deoderant, or Pete Collier driving Variant.
I was hoping to trial this at AWS 34 (once I've spoken to Dave L), but I wanted to see what people think about the idea and would they be willing to do it, and also, which robot would you LIKE to drive, and which wouldn't you want to drive (the latter is optional if you want to spare feelings
)Opinions ?
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