Fights online

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Never seen this before. It's quite incredible! One way of taking out your opponent I suppose.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul5bkASL ... ideo_title

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Same fight, different angle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5wCU8QM ... ideo_title

[knightrous]

My antweight Kruger did a similar tactic in a meele. Spun up, bar came off the robot and hit the only other spinner in the arena, taking it's wheel off and disabling it's weapon at the same time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... KjQc#t=24s

[Andrew_Hibberd]

Interesting win, all i can think is "that's why we use the battle box"

[Remote-Controlled Dave]

Haha, Knightrous, that's wicked! Seems to be a lot more common abroad than it is here in England!

[terminaldamage]

Nice fight from the Australian antweight competition at their recent national event:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU8IA1H1JCw

I've mentioned it in the comments of the video as well, but what impresses me most is the fact that Scarlet maintains a degree of control, aggression and (definitely) damage despite being one wheel down for a portion of the fight!

[razerdave]

The Australian fights tend to be longer because their arena has no drop off until 2 mins are up, which I prefer to be honest, but over here with the volume of ants we have, 2 min fights each would take 2 days :p

[knightrous]

I've mentioned it in the comments of the video as well, but what impresses me most is the fact that Scarlet maintains a degree of control, aggression and (definitely) damage despite being one wheel down for a portion of the fight!

Thanks for the comments on Scarlet In the previous version of the robot, I had a rather large disliking of how it drove (being an undercutter) and the frustration of trying to be aggressive and attack an opponent when it drove like "bananas". So a fair chunk of the rebuild was to make it more driveable and have a better weight balance, which also helps when it ends up running around with just one wheel

Next event it should be sporting a new weapon shaft setup that should stop the disc/motor coming adrift and a modification to the wheel hubs to stop them coming off

[Gizz]

It's one of my favourite spinners actually, looks very balanced and it can do quite some damage