 | | Re: Sumo Contest - Sunday 10/9/05, Austin, TX —Justin Fisher
| | | | (...) All rules do this, from Sumo to BattleBots. The purpose of the rules has never been to facilitate the best bot (you'd get Battlebots escalating towards armour by the tonne and using nuclear weapons :-), the purpose is to form a standardised (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Sumo Contest - Sunday 10/9/05, Austin, TX —John Barnes
| | | | | (...) I really have to agree here. I think there is a place for "big bot" contests, but there is a place for various levels of limitations too. In fact, I think that is half the fun. We had a WAMALUG Sumo event last year with a 16 oz weight limit. (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Sumo Contest - Sunday 10/9/05, Austin, TX —Brian Davis
| | | | | (...) Absolutely agreed. After all, I already strictly limit myself to LEGO (and let's face it, that is a limitation, and one that is as arbitary as any other if the end goal was simply "the best bot"). (...) So which is worse, getting beaten by (...) (19 years ago, 5-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: Sumo Contest - Sunday 10/9/05, Austin, TX —Bryan Bonahoom
| | | | | Man - you guys are tough!!! I was concerned that there was only a specific type of Lego motor you could use. That was all...I didn't comment on weight limits or ability to design, etc. I thought that extreme of a limitation was odd. The fact is, I (...) (19 years ago, 6-Sep-05, to lugnet.robotics)
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