[chbot] Extending the mini robot wars challenge

[Mark Beckett]

Byron

The group suggested raising it to 500g, as per most other sumobots.

The arena is Richards one, seen in the pics from earlier bouts.
Its black with white border and (presumably) meets the rules for size, etc.
There is no large drop from the edge, as I've seen on others.

Control is not restricted....except that your control must not wipe out 
everyone else's.
ie no spark gap transmitters, or some other wide band splattering device 
that some engineer at a certain establishment may build.

There has been discussion re including the transmitter into the weight 
limit.
Personally I'm not for including the transmitter, but definately the 
receiver.


My suggestion is that the BOT must line up ready to fight (but not 
started), at which stage it can be weighed and must be under the limit 
(500g).
If we also include a size, it must also meet the size limit.


For the group.
I've seen some interesting bits, where the size limit applies until the 
start of the match.
At that stage a weapon is allowed to be deployed, which may increase the 
size, past the initial limit.

Part of that also includes that when pushing a BOT out of the ring, the 
first BOT to make contact is the loser.
This includes the pushing BOT weapon, so while he/she won, he/she lost 
by being first to contact.


Glad that you might be adding to the collection.
There are some great designs out there, predominately designed for 
autonomous (next step) competition.



Mark



Byron Engler wrote:
> Hi,
> Ive got heaps of time on my hands now that school has finished. Keen 
> to get a little robot going.
> I have a couple of questions:
> Is the max weight limit 300g or 500g
> what does/will the arena look like? (similar to the lego sumo ring?)
> is there any restrictions to how it is conrolled
>
> Cheers, Byron
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