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seconded, never had a bad board from pete! :)
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Unfortunately Pete won't sell to non-AWS competitors, but once you've competed you're good :).
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Hello

So the post man cheerfully dropped a horde of parcels into my house just now. I have everything I think I need to build my first not except the receiver and the battery charger, both of witch are on order.

An initial weigh in of bits suggests I'm up to 80g so far. That sabertooth is indeed a beast in this weight class.

A less technical question. Do you generally name your robots before, during or after construction?

And same question for team names.

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I don't think that's a question that I've ever heard asked before :P.

Personally, I always just think of words that I think sound cool (Void, Zenith, Flux, Entropy) and apply them to robots which seem to fit the name. Others name their robots after something they can do; naming a grabber after an animal with a powerful bite, for example. Some just name their robots with whatever comes to mind.

Then there's Dave Lawrie. I don't know for certain, but I think he gets his names from an ancient text called the Daveonomicon, and each is carefully designed to strike confusion and disarray in his opponent's minds.

I generally have names for my robots planned before I build them as I've got a pretty good idea of what they'll look like when they're completed, but if you were building in a more trial-and-error fashion I could understand waiting to see what the final product looked like before naming it.

As for teams, it's pretty much the same deal. Choose something that either sounds cool or reflects you and/or your robots in some way. "Team Spaceman" seems perfectly valid to me :P.

If you're asking because you can't think of names, don't worry; something will come to you ^^.
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Just was checking the eticicete.

Ahem

my team shall be "team 1202"

Points if you know the space reference to 1202

Was thinking Mastodon for my first bot as it will prob be heavy and lumbering. There's also a progressive metal band by that name and I hope it will last as long as their songs.

The chances however of it being covered in brown fur are slim...
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There's no etiquette regarding such things; we're pretty laid back :). As long as you have something to write on the entry form (which can be done up to the day before) it's fine.
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Is that possibly a reference to the 1202 alarm on the Apollo 11 mission? :P

Yeah, the whole of robot wars is pretty laid back, but the antweight events especially (obviously there are certain strict safety rules, but even these are less in number from the larger weight classes simply because ants are generally less dangerous :L)

My first robot was christened Lionel by my flat mates during a few rounds of robot wars drinking game (not advised with the larger weight classes :L).
Alex's robot was named Stanley because he took it to an event but forgot to put a name sticker on it, so just pulled the sticker off his tool kit..

There's even an ant called "I survived the attack of chickens from outer space" (apologies if this isn't exactly accurate!)

Basically you can pretty much call it what you like (as long as it's not too rude :L), when you like :)
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Indeed it is a Apollo 11 reference

Am itching to get going on my first ant now. Hopefully won't take too long to construct
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They usually only take a day to put together since they're small; It's getting the parts that takes time :P
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I just name them whenever I feel I have a name I like for them. My feather went into it's fist event using a placeholder name before I settled on one I liked halfway through the event :P (Not advised, causes confusion XD). generally I find I come up with a name I like halfway through the building of the robot.

Stanley did indeed get it's name from our toolbox (You story stealer you, *glares at Rory*)
My other Ant Accelerant got its name because it was fast... too fast... absurdly fast. I should change the name now, it kept the name through a redesign but it doesn't fit as well anymore.

I've had robots called Assailant, Haywire, Stanley, Accelerant, An Adorable kitten and Gimli :D
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