RobotWars101

limpet wrote:my 3D videos are now on youtube (you can view them in 2D as well). The channel name is 13black

Link: http://www.youtube.com/user/513mb/videos

Assuming that the date works for me I can provide transport for the arena and bring a couple of projectors, trailing leads, etc. I don't have projector screens.

I am assuming that the arena will fit in a large estate...

(...) I don't really think there's any need for this talk of changing things fundamentally. Will knows what caused the time problems this time around (pits and arena being seperate, fights not being called enough in advance, and people not knowing where they are in the bracket), and I'm sure he has...

(...) with the AWS the numbers involved are so large that a league-type solution would probably result in more battles rather than fewer (...) Do we have stats from yesterday regarding the number of bouts each robot competed in? If they're averaging more than three or four before the finals then a ...

With two arenas in the same auditorium you wouldn't really need to worry about FWS and AWS as separate events, you could just schedule battles on each and (as has been suggested) alternate the battles so that prep/clear-up is occurring in one arena while battle is occurring in the other. What I thin...

How about allocating points based upon how quickly you win a bout in a league-style scoring system? That way it becomes more entertaining for spectators, the matches are positively encouraged to be shorter and you don't (necessarily) get penalised for that one "unlucky" drive-out over the ...