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I take it that that arena used on robot wars extreme for the ants is owned by mentorn? Would be great to fight in it. Can anyone construct an arena?
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Anyone can build an arena and new and innovative designs are welcome!
The only guidelines are about 30" square and 50% drop-off.
IMO a pit doesn't really count as much of a drop-off as it's actually very hard to drive someone into a pit - it's hard enough sometimes to drive someone off the edge after all! Also, I think a pit would need to be at least 5" square, possibly more, and it would take up quite a large portion of the floor area. I think I'd favour hinged wall sections, like the final fight of one of the US TV shows (was it Battlebots?), with a "pit release button" like on RW to activate it. Watch this space...
The two Petes' arenas have two solid walls and two open sides, this has the effect of making the enclosure smaller. Any other design needs a pit all the way round and so the encosure is bigger.
My arena has "modular" walls that can be bolted on in various combinations to give a wide variety of layouts all with 50% drop-off.
I am currently working on the enclosure which is nearly 4' square and will easily accomodate any standard size arena. The enclosure is the expensive bit, so hopefully my "stand-alone" enclosure will allow other people to build arenas without necessarily having to worry about an enclosure. When it's finished I will publish full details of requirements for an arena to fit in it.
At AWS 17 we will be using PeteC's arena and my arena in its brand new enclosure. The plan is to alternate fights between the two arenas to speed things up a bit. Also adds a bit of variety...
The only guidelines are about 30" square and 50% drop-off.
IMO a pit doesn't really count as much of a drop-off as it's actually very hard to drive someone into a pit - it's hard enough sometimes to drive someone off the edge after all! Also, I think a pit would need to be at least 5" square, possibly more, and it would take up quite a large portion of the floor area. I think I'd favour hinged wall sections, like the final fight of one of the US TV shows (was it Battlebots?), with a "pit release button" like on RW to activate it. Watch this space...
The two Petes' arenas have two solid walls and two open sides, this has the effect of making the enclosure smaller. Any other design needs a pit all the way round and so the encosure is bigger.
My arena has "modular" walls that can be bolted on in various combinations to give a wide variety of layouts all with 50% drop-off.
I am currently working on the enclosure which is nearly 4' square and will easily accomodate any standard size arena. The enclosure is the expensive bit, so hopefully my "stand-alone" enclosure will allow other people to build arenas without necessarily having to worry about an enclosure. When it's finished I will publish full details of requirements for an arena to fit in it.
At AWS 17 we will be using PeteC's arena and my arena in its brand new enclosure. The plan is to alternate fights between the two arenas to speed things up a bit. Also adds a bit of variety...
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I think you mean Robotica, with "Fight to the Finish" I think. But they didn't have a realese button in the first series (have't seen the other ones), so the arena walls went down after a minute or so.I think I'd favour hinged wall sections, like the final fight of one of the US TV shows (was it Battlebots?), with a "pit release button" like on RW to activate it. Watch this space...
I've been thinking of the same idea for a time now, and as in the RW antweight arena, manually open the walls (on the outside, of course), after a special time, about a minute or so. To give ants to fight spinners for a longer time
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