• Context:
  • Ryan went to AWS61 with a new antweight - Tropical Storm Phil
    • He did quite well, winning 3 fights and losing 2
• Fights
  • vs Pyramid Scheme
  • vs Boink?!
  • vs Team Phyte’s Big Syte
  • vs Mini B
  • vs Potential Uplift
• Antweight building
  • Titanium is hard to work with
  • The whole robot was built using the following tools:
    • Cordless drill with 1.5mm, 2mm, and 7mm HSS bits
    • Centre punches
    • Soldering iron
    • Low-temp glue gun
    • Cheap ‘junior hacksaw’
    • More expensive ‘big boi hacksaw’
    • Tin snips
    • Small Phillips-head screwdriver
    • Scalpel
    • Small files
  • Not enjoying the process
    • An issue with building ants or an issue with building solo?
  • Slightly overcomplicated flipper design
    • Better mechanisms which aren’t significantly more complex
    • Not knowing how torque works
• Future antweight plans
  • More front-hinges?
    • Fun, but hard to use effectively
  • Designing around an evolving driving style
  • Hammers not working
  • Spinners?
• The antweight class
  • Are antweight fights enjoyable for an audience?
    • Definitely enjoyable for a competitor
  • The contact rule
    • Ordinary use of the contact rule
    • Sporting use of the contact rule
      • Not the fight Ryan was talking about, or a fight Ryan mis-remembered
  • The dreaded cube
    • What can be gained by gaming the cube
• Ryan explains football to Sam for far too many minutes
• Miscellaneous fun fights
  • Plank of Wood vs Wu Ben Wu Won’t Believe This Is a Rebuild
  • Hot Rod vs Yeetus & Retreatus
  • Little Kit 4 vs Annie Wuz Robbed
  • Wu Ben Wu Won’t Believe This Is a Rebuild vs Armamant