Hmm, at $100 per full membership and some student / part-time memberships, we would have enough for a concrete floor AND some extras like a tabletop arena / new lights / other facilities.

I've always had tonnes of small bot parts, guarantee a 1kg robot from me if we get a tabletop arena. (heck, a big slab of 12mm MDF would be enough...)
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Yeah, I still have 80% of the parts for a beetleweight. If we do a tabletop, I would really like to see something professional, sturdy, and transportable. We might not do many off-site demos, but a dodgy arena shouldn't be the limiting factor.

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Bottom line; we need a small arena and a couple of pioneers to help us get to critical mass, then everyone will suddenly want a piece of the action!

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It seems that most small arenas are built to fit whatever the materials will allow - not what the bots or builder would ultimately like! In our case, we could do two steel panels for the floor and cut 3 panels in half for the sides. It would be even better if we had enough panels to go full hight sides so that vertical spinners had more room to throw opponents. The supports could be relatively low folding saw horses and the only major expense would be a sheet of polycarb for the top.

Yes indeed, I forgot about the polycarb - tho it's only necessary once someone builds a spinner.

depending on size a few sheets of the 3mm stuff from bunnings would suffice, wouldnt cost any more than 100 bucks or something to do a fair size arena
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Does anyone have feedback on the importance of events in public holidays?

it would be better if battleshed was during holidays like last year.. but other then that holidays arent that important.. i dont have soccer taking up my saturdays anymore so rest of the events are fine whenever
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so long as battleshed is in the holidays it should be fine, there are always reserves for sport teams so something can be easily organised in the event of a clash. besides, most students who would build a bot would be in a $h*t team anyway so it's not really a problem . I reckon the 1kg class would do well, It's probably more atractive to new builders.

cheeseboy; maybe the official class;
3 pound (1.36 kg) - Beetleweight
would make more sense

whatever small weigh u lot decide is fine by me, i got parts to fit beetle down to fleaweight, i guarantee ill build a bot to whatever you guys decide.
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Just wondering what happen for 2010
Events
competition
Arena
classes or leave of bots
membership
money
Have not heard the bottom line on any of these things?

With the the responce to this thread it looking like no competition this year in NSW.
Is this correct?

Russell,

Perhaps go back to page 2. Nick was looking into these things there.

Maybe send him a PM to see how its coming along?