The Arena is nearly set up just some finishing touches tommorow then i can get a couple of bots ready .The cheese needs a wheel changed heamorage needs a limit switch fixed and some screws tightned and vl needs its wheapon teeth welded back on and its aerial fixed .i hope thats all lol .What time does every one want to kick off ..


Also Aaron and i were thinking of the round robin style again as it worked good last time ..is every one agreeable to that ?

Yep, I vote for the round robin battle system again, it was heaps of fun last time and everyone had an equal amount of battles, plus it was still very relaxed
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I agree with Aaron.

Andrew, you should leave the sleepers until we are there to give you a lift.

Trent, I look forward to seeing your self-righter.
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Bot not built yet Phil(need another 4 weeks)! Do you wanna see components, or a demo self-right in a test frame??
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I want to see the components and the construction methods. The self-right test video looks very convincing. I have read about PVC rams online, but have never seen one ITRW.
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No probs
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@Philip: Andrew and I put the sleepers in lastnight, so it's one less thing to do on the day

@Trent: Another 4 months you mean

@Andrew: I'll pick up some snags/bread rolls/coke cans during my lunch break today and bring them over tonight.

Can we have some bot confirmations please... The event is tomorrow
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Orange and I will be there. The batteries are cycling now to make sure they play happily tomorrow. Alex has not said yes or no, but I wont be holding my breath.

I will ask if I can borrow two of the toy cameras from work (the type Trent used last time).

Karen is pulling the bathroom and toilet apart tomorrow and combining them into one room. What a shame I will be playing robots.
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I'll have the round robin draw up drawn up in 20 minutes. Watch this space
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7 Robots, 7 Rounds, 3 Fights per round, 1 Bye per round, 21 Fights total + 1 optional end of day Rumble.
If you see any double up battles in there, please let me know and I'll correct it. I'll have the spreadsheet running on the laptop at th event, so if either of the Kerison's bring a memory stick/memory card you can take a copy of the Excel (Or OpenOffice) to make doing the rankings quicker.

Over next few events, I'm looking at building a PHP/MySQL based program for handling our events. Should be able to input each robot into the program at the beginning of the day, with their current RoboWars Ranking and the program will manage all the wins/losses and produce a final ranking at the end of the day. Daniel, if you can, could you bring a copy of the formulae you use to calculate the rankings with you on Saturday, I just want a bit of an insight on how to impliment it into my proposed program.
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Aaron ive got snags just some cans and bread rolls as the kids got stuck into the ones in the freezer Oh and the Broom rember the broom ...dont forget the Broom .....

Mm i liked the idea of picking the first draw from the hat with every one there ..can we still do that on the day? and then you can just chuck the names in the computer as they are drawn?

Picking the names out of a hat first thing in the morning isn't required. Every robot is going to fight every other robot regardless. If your worried about people turning up with their robot configured with attachments to fight their first opponent, I can just shift the rounds around on the morning so it will not work. It takes about 3 clicks of a mouse

Cans and Bread rolls it is And the broom... I'll chuck that in the car in 5 mins
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nah just dont want any whinging that it was picked this way or that to advantage any one ..i just thought the random picking made with every one there made sure that it was purely a random selection ..if every one is happy with that draw i dont realy care then leave it as is .

With the round robin system, it doesn't matter. Every robot is going to fight every other robot. There are no advantages or disadvantages. You might complain that you drew VL in the first round, but everyone else will also fight VL, so there shouldn't be any whinging

The first round was semi-configured to make sure Team Vertex bots weren't fighting Team Vertex bots first round, and same with Hell Firelabs(I'm sure they don't want to drive all the way from Brissy to beat each other up in the first match, they can save that for round 2 ). Then every other round after it is slightly engineered to make sure we don't end up fighting the same opponent twice.

I repeat. There is NO advantages/disadvantages with the pre-drawn round robin system. You WILL fight EVERY other robot in the competition, one round or another Okay..... First one to whinge gets to fight Vertex
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