Great to hear! Best of luck with your bot.

Cool! Hear me out tho, add neodymium magnets to the bottom of the bot for metal arena fights, trust me when I say it makes your bot horrifying

@@watsmyu989 This is a very good idea, only issue is that 90% of events run arenas with wood or just non metal floors. We have only competed at one event with a metal floor over the 3 years we have been competing.

I feel you there with finishing bots at competitions

It is no longer Dulce De lucha it's Don't say De lucha

That was Hypno’s weapon grinding against the arena floor as it spun down

Weight

@@kokofan50 I know there are weight-related restrictions and rules, but when you notice problems it often means you have to change your approach or equipment He wants to work on his engine mount because it is breaking but that's not the only problem his "weapon" takes damage very often (not just in this fight) A simple (and relatively lightweight) solution would be soft armor But you would still have to try it out to be able to say how well it works

@@TAB_100 cheesecake is already near maxed out in weight. Enough armor to properly protect the motor will definitely make cheesecake too heavy.

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Mature metas can be boring

If you're talking about the side plate of Aftershock that got ripped off vs Carbide, it got stuck in the first layer of the polycarbonate. Even if it went through the first layer, it would've slowed down enough to bounce off the 2nd layer. At no point was the audience in danger. Safety record in western world robot combat (EU, NA but also China and South Korea) has been pretty good for the past few decades, with the only really dangerous situations happening in the very beginning (mid 90s) when people didn't realise how dangerous these bots could become. Since then there have been gigantic improvements in arena safety. And now places with a lot fewer resources like Russia, Brazil, India and Pakistan have competitions in fully enclosed arenas that are safe for spectators and competitors alike. The weapons are limited by tip speed so whatever shrapnel flies off it gets caught by the essentially bulletproof polycarbonate walls, there is simply no danger to the audience. The only time I can recall in the past ~20 years where something potentially dangerous happened was at Robogames a year ago (Terrortops vs Manta if you want to look it up) where a fork got yeeted off a bot, launched in the air and crashed through the ceiling of the box, landing near the audience. Turned out that the panels for the ceiling of the box were improperly stored after the last event (in 2019) and were UV damaged to the point of becoming brittle. All the panels directly facing the audience were new, it's just that for the ceiling they re-used a couple of panels which was a bad mistake, but nobody got hurt and they learned a bunch about storing polycarb panels. And about the spinners? Yeah seeing an endless stream of 4 wheel drive verts can get a bit boring at times, but there are plenty of innovations still happening. Counter-gyro systems so the bot doesn't lift its sides when turning, wedges that can properly bully horizontal spinners around, people are building bots that can take a full hit but keep going and there are plenty of non-kinetic energy bots that still can do very well in full competition. The UK live circuit (Extreme Robots) is basically split between kinetic energy weapons and other weapons like hammers or flippers, with the latter having a ton of fun matches while the kinetic bots have a much lower spin speed (125 mph tip speed) to keep the energies in check.

Battlebots it better, in my opinion.