AWS25: April 5th 2008, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

leo-rcc · Post by **leo-rcc** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:41 pm

The germans have also been invited on their forum. Since its not too far from the German border I expect their will be a fair share of GRA ants as well.

razerdave · Post by **razerdave** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:14 pm

Do you have any videos of the german ants ? and do they conform to UK ant rules or US 'Ant' rules ?

Cavecrusher · Post by **Cavecrusher** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:15 pm

razerdave wrote:Do you have any videos of the german ants ? and do they conform to UK ant rules or US 'Ant' rules ?

Let's just say, if you can survive for more than 1 sec against DBA/Katjuscha, you'll be fine against the Germans.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 11:32 pm

Sounds like fun, I'm really looking forward to some international competition at an AWS (even if the UK robots lose horribly).

Simon

leo-rcc · Post by **leo-rcc** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:57 am

GRA (Germany) and DRG (Netherlands) both use the UK rules for ants.

One robot in particular I fight quite often, because its virtually indestructable and only cost 12 euro (=8,50 GBP) to build, called Zwolf.

Zwolf means 12 in German. It was to prove that even a cheap robot is able to withstand the worst spinners in the field. And it does a good job of that.

This is an ant called Emma

And Colossus.

And Go.

Remote-Controlled Dave · Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:41 pm

Loving that! Cheers Leo. Would be great to get some german robots over. Zwolf looks like its just made from one sheet of metal though, thats against our rules. Or is it not? It's hard to tell on the picture. They all look like good bots though, be great to get some "new" teams in.

Cavecrusher · Post by **Cavecrusher** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:44 pm

Dave26 wrote:Zwolf looks like its just made from one sheet of metal though, thats against our rules. Or is it not?

it is, but i can and prob will still allow it.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 5:57 pm

Just FYI 2.k)

Armour consisting of one continuous metal plate must not protect more than one third of the robots perimeter (welded plates will be considered as a continuous metal plate).

leo-rcc · Post by **leo-rcc** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:38 pm

These rules will be in place for the AWS25, I will make sure that this is also known with the germans and the dutch.

Zwolf was never intended as a serious competition ant, but just to survive robots like mine.

Cavecrusher · Post by **Cavecrusher** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 7:00 pm

leo-rcc wrote:Zwolf was never intended as a serious competition ant, but just to survive robots like mine.

that's why i would allow it