Rules

Remote-Controlled Dave · Thu Jan 12, 2006 1:07 pm

You could easily run a whole team at an event with only one reciever between the 4, thats not my point. If this reciever is damaged, then that's 4 robots out. Giving them 5 minutes to make it to the arena isn't going to do a lot if they are all dead already, except create 4 by-passes, which no one wants cos we get together to fight, not to forfeit through.
Otherwise, the 5minute suggestion is a good one, but as you say Simon, a little difficult to police sometimes.

Josh - the more protected a reciever is, the harder it would be to get it out and change. Making a removable reciever as part of your design before you build is a difficult process, and it is usually hanging around somewhere that's quite easy to access, because it has to be to change it. You can never guarantee a component is not going to die. What if it shorts with a technical fault?

bobblebot · Post by **bobblebot** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 5:03 pm

I have just converted version 3.1 into PDF format http://www.bobblebot.co.uk/folder32/ant ... les_31.pdf

I just wanted to check this is OK for me to do. I think it will be useful for people to be able to download them onto their computers but I want to make sure no one has a problem with this.

Thanks,

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:28 pm

Having the rules available in PDF format is nice, but we really don't want to proliferate copies of the rules as they have a habit of becoming out-of-date.
This has happened before and resulted in events being run to extremely out-of-date rules which a) most current robots do not comply with, and b) did not cover some of the safety requirements!

There are currently 2 official copies of the rules, one on RW101 (where else?) and one on Oliver's site.

Everyone: Please link to the current rules at www.robotwars101.org if you want to reference the rules on your site. Please don't make a local copy.

(Of course, you can copy the rules onto your own PC for your own reference.)

bobblebot · Post by **bobblebot** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:52 pm

Hi Gary - thanks for the reply,

That is just what I wanted to check - I was just thinking that having a PDF version available would be better for people if they wanted a local copy on their PC but I was aware of the linking to the rules thing. I can understand how it could cause a problem!

Perhaps RW101 could host the rules as a PDF file too?

Its just a suggestion - if people are happy with just html and copying to our local PCs (or just going online to view them) I won't argue with that, but I always find it more helpful when there is a PDF available on my hard drive.

bobblebot · Post by **bobblebot** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:53 pm

Sorry double post

Flippt · Post by **Flippt** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 3:42 pm

I've been thinking on the rule 5.l

How does this rule effects FBS? As all FBS I've seen, there's never been a label on them. Also, the event organizers dosent seem to have such a big check on the ants with, not so visible labels. I reject to aws17, with me entering Buddy, which only had been written with its name with a thin pencil.

Cavecrusher · Post by **Cavecrusher** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:27 pm

mine never had (DBA, Antcrusher, Antmosphere, MBY, Ceasar)

Flippt · Post by **Flippt** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:59 pm

If you look at your avatar Tim, you'll see you actually got a label on DBA

But I think it would be better for the event organizers to know which ant belongs to who, even though its obvious for some.

Adam Hargreaves · Post by **Adam Hargreaves** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:23 pm

yh, mine are the ones constructed with hazard tape...

Cavecrusher · Post by **Cavecrusher** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:26 pm

Flippt wrote:If you look at your avatar Tim, you'll see you actually got a label on DBA

Yeah, that like the first one in many years, only because i wanted to make sure that you guys knew it was a newer version, but winning the AWS was more effective i guess