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New Designing to win isn't everything, though.
For example, we took Rocky Bot Boa to RW:EW, and although it did quite well (except for a questionable judges' decision), it was basically just a big brick of C-channel. It beat every bot out there, but there's not a single builder (or producer) I know who would say "what a cool robot". There was some open animosity against the builder of Rocky for Not Being Creative.

One of the most annoying things about building these days is it's getting so boring. We're down to wedges and spinners, and the tech heads of BB and RW (and Robotica, and BotBash, and ...) are doing everything in their power to change that.

Go ahead and build your jumper, your spinner (IIRC Mauler 5150 drove this way, you're not alone), your creative masses yearning to breathe free. Just do it on a show with an appearance fee (eg RW:EW), not a contest prize (eg BB).
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A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas;...despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel, but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas, they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires."

Jacques Servan, 1767
New If we're going for cool ...
My favorite is still [link|http://stage.onlyagame.org/photogallery/battlebots/images/photo3.jpg|Mechadon]. Best looking bot yet, but completely unsuitable to combat.
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New Man, that thing was heavy
Trey kinda fudged the weight limits for that one, just because it was So Cool. IIRC it was 425 lbs? We picked it up on the way to BB2K in San Fran; they had to drive it out on a forklift...sharp corners and all that.

I don't think it was *completely* unsuited to combat--remember the Big Fight it had with Trey's Ginsu? The only reason Mark lost that fight was he couldn't get the thing righted when it got knocked on its butt first time. And the only reason he couldn't do *that* was he had added a steel plate horizontally on the butt minutes before the fight: it made a perfect tripod out of his bot. Cryin shame, it was. Ginsu pretty much destroyed himself wanging on Mechadon.


P.S. Look for Mark Setrakian's day-job work in the upcoming MIB II.
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A stupid despot may constrain his slaves with iron chains; but a true politician binds them even more strongly by the chain of their own ideas;...despair and time eat away the bonds of iron and steel, but they are powerless against the habitual union of ideas, they can only tighten it still more; and on the soft fibres of the brain is founded the unshakable base of the soundest of Empires."

Jacques Servan, 1767
     RFC on battlebot idea - (drewk) - (18)
         No clue. - (Silverlock) - (1)
             Problem with jumping - (drewk)
         I put an image up - (drewk)
         Re: RFC on battlebot idea - (pwhysall) - (4)
             Different goal - (drewk)
             Designing to win isn't everything, though. - (tseliot) - (2)
                 If we're going for cool ... - (drewk) - (1)
                     Man, that thing was heavy - (tseliot)
         It seems to me... - (marlowe) - (9)
             "Reasonable" is in the eye of the beholder - (drewk) - (8)
                 change the tires to globes - (boxley)
                 Just so long as you move faster than... - (marlowe) - (4)
                     Not with how it's scored - (drewk) - (3)
                         Could this work? - (Silverlock) - (2)
                             Basically what I'm thinking - (drewk) - (1)
                                 And the LRPD sayeth "Slices, dices, chops..". :) -NT - (a6l6e6x)
                 Seems to me - (Steven A S) - (1)
                     But *mechanical* complexity would be lower - (drewk)

Well, after thinking it over for a few hours, the toilet decided to work.
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