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  Re: Battle Bots?
 
HI Don. although not a battle per say, we just recently had a robot competition in Toronto. the general game was to have 2 bots collect marbles from a 8' x 8' playing field and return to a home square. it was not really an aggressive event but we (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Battle Bots?
 
(...) They complained about maybe having a ten-cent chunk of plastic break? Come on, people, they're Legos! People who do _real_ BattleBots often spend $5-10,000 of their own money and ridiculous amounts of time on a single robot, and they _know_ (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Battle Bots?
 
I tried to organize one in the Los Angeles area. Even had rules set up per Nate Burgess. See URL: (URL) one signed up. Would be willing to try again though. Dave (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)
 
  Re: Battle Bots?
 
Maybe these people are using RCX because they can't afford to spend $5-10,000 of their own money on a robot? And maybe they can't afford to smash up $100+ of kit in a 90 second scrap. -- Mark R www.markrendle.co.uk Patrick Hayes (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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