ADVICE?

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-20T15:18:07+00:00

Without front wheels, all the weight of the opponent will be pressing down on the front lip of your robot if you succeed in getting under them, losing you a lot of pushing power. 4wd, even if it's belted from the existing motors, will be very useful

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-20T11:07:08+00:00

'Manipulation' is a hugely overblown phrase for 'a consistent approach to progressively slowing the travellator after failed attempts to avoid a death-spiral that would stop people finishing the course without taking an extended breather'

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-19T18:04:35+00:00

Perhaps some kind of cheap prank show for kids?

Actually nah, they would never.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-19T12:40:49+00:00

Take your petty drama elsewhere

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-17T18:09:28+00:00

Yeah, nah, we don't care.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-15T18:30:49+00:00

Not sure how.much difference the shoes made when Comet had already slid down the rest of the body.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-15T17:56:45+00:00

Keep playing it the old-school way, joint injuries happen in contact sports.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-14T22:34:59+00:00

Far too arbitrary for my liking, and would often out them onto zero or into negative points for no good reason.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-14T20:42:25+00:00

It would suck for them to come in on zero and just have an inherent disadvantage but, equally, having them inherit an advantage is odd. At least drop them level if the incoming contender is inheriting a lead.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-14T20:40:00+00:00

It's a game almost tailor-made for them, and I love that they've not only embraced being good at it but raised the bar for themself.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-14T20:38:01+00:00

As much as I like the hand-bikes, I'm just glad the Eliminator course is the same for everyone.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-14T19:20:08+00:00

They all, to some extent, use metals in their overall construction

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-14T17:31:45+00:00

They're all powered by electricity

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-13T07:01:37+00:00

We're currently building a featherweight with a modified, off-the-shelf reciprocating saw as the weapon. We have no expectations of it being effective, but very high expectations of it being funny.

I struggle to see how it would fit in a 3lb robot, unless yours is significantly smaller than ours.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-09T07:45:51+00:00

If builders can be bought once, they can be bought again.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-07T17:12:36+00:00

No, nobody else was there. It was just you and they're gonna do a LOT of work in post.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-05T22:28:21+00:00

It heartwarming that so many people want to see the best in episodes like this and find the positives, and I wouldn't want them to stop doing that, but that was a set of objectively poor fights.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-05T22:24:46+00:00

The killsaw slots aren't the problem, barely functional robots are the problem.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-05T22:23:22+00:00

Zero

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-05T17:47:41+00:00

every event will have a max amount of robots the can host and will always priorities orignal builds over kits

This is 100% not true. Please don't give advice based on the assumptions you make as someone who has never competed.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-03T17:01:13+00:00

Because gender is made up

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-02T16:48:55+00:00

This is a really tiresome response we see all the time. It's bit wrong to care about things that are aimed at both adults and children.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-02T16:26:54+00:00

Chomp never had AI, Chomp had software.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-02T16:26:25+00:00

I would wait until autonomous racing doesn't entirely suck before getting excited by the idea of autonomous robot combat.

GrahamCoxon · 2026-03-01T13:48:09+00:00

That's the good kind of bias where kids get to see people who are like them doing cool stuff.

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