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Nick
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 11802
Location: Sydney, NSW
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NSW season 6 2009
NSW season 6 2009
Season 5 is over and its now time to plan for the next big year of robotic mayhem; here are some changes I'd like to propose:
1) Lightweights, this time for real! We keep talking about it, next year I think we can get enough to run a few events.
2) Reduce the number of events to six per year. Let's face it, not many other competitors in the world go to 8 local events and one or two larger national events. Running 6 local events and perhaps two optional events for lightweights only will reduce the expense and effort we have to put in, allowing better built bots. People didn't like the idea of just 3 to 4 events last year, so six is a good starting point.
3) Arena repairs - it can't be put off, as the floor is in really bad shape. Steel is a bit too expensive, so Jake & Russel's ideas for chipboard sound like the answer.
4) More build days, possibly incorporating non-combat bots, driving practise and venue maintenance.
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Valen
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 07 Jul 2004
Posts: 4436
Location: Sydney
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Just to put the dates on the front page
April 18th (school holidays)
June 6th
July 18th (school holidays)
August 29th
October 10th Battleshed (school holidays)
November 21st
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6 events sounds good
Perhaps 4 "build days"?
I think the build days should be at a workshop though rather than the arena, there just isn't anything there to do build stuff with. Perhaps a "skill share" type event, fiberglassing, welding, machining etc.
I know Russell is happy for people to come over, I'm pretty sure Chris is as well.
Unfortunatly it looks like MDF/yellow tongue is probably the only floor we can afford, I had a plan to sheathe MDF tiles with steel but it still winds up at ~$1000-2000.
Re lightweights, I think the consensus was something along the lines of "spinning weapons limited to half the KE of Plan-B"
I'll work out a number for that later, basically means any saw or grinder is fine and you could still have spinning stuff, but unless your made out of foil its not going to bother you too much. _________________ Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets
Last edited by Valen on Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:59 pm; edited 1 time in total
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