Team[]
Not really a three-team effort, its just all three members of Gravity again. This makes them from the same team. We should probably link them. Toon Ganondorf (t c) 23:33, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
- I'm assuming it's the same Jeroen from Gravity then, as the other team members are the same. It only had his first name on the UK series, so if it is him, we can now add his surname to the Gravity infobox. Christophee (talk) 11:01, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
- I called it a 3-team effort because this was the first time that the three had been on a team together; they were all on seperate teams in Series 1, and WJ built the Series 2 version of Gravity by himself. According to Gravity's website, the team name is Team Madscience. It seems to me that the best thing to do would be to make a page for this team with links to √3 and both Gravities, and on that page, mention the other robots that the team members had worked on. RA2; aka Resetti's Replicas. (My Talk) 17:10, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
- I'll ask WJ in an email. Toon Ganondorf (t c) 08:48, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
- I called it a 3-team effort because this was the first time that the three had been on a team together; they were all on seperate teams in Series 1, and WJ built the Series 2 version of Gravity by himself. According to Gravity's website, the team name is Team Madscience. It seems to me that the best thing to do would be to make a page for this team with links to √3 and both Gravities, and on that page, mention the other robots that the team members had worked on. RA2; aka Resetti's Replicas. (My Talk) 17:10, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
- "Yes I can :)
dutch series 1 I worked in team madscience on the robot project one, together with mario.
dutch series 2 I went alone, and built gravity 1. I didn't have any real teammates, but I sold a spot in my team on a public forum, because as a member of the team you got a free trip to the uk for the filmping of dutch series 2 :) Next to building gravity 1, I also built my part of the 3-way clusterbot, V3-2 ((the root of 3) squared). Jeroen built his heavyweight robot impact, and also the second part of the clusterbot. Alex built his heavyweight robot ODT (oddity) and the 3d part of the clusterbot. So in dutch series 2 we were all three in a different team with the main heavyweights, but in the same team for the clusterbot. That's why we were wearing helmets with black visors :)
Uk series 7 I built Gravity 3 again by myself, but since Alex and Jeroen didn't have a robot ready, I took them in my team so we could all go to the uk again, cause we were pretty good friends by now :) So they were the guys helping me carry the robot so to speak ;)
hope this clears it up."
- — William
Reply received. Toon Ganondorf (t c) 21:08, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
Template:Version[]
Is it really necessary to add Template:Version to every single article? I think we should only do it in cases of Robots competing in more than one national championship. For example, Atomic only fought in the UK Series, so its a given that it fought in that wars. The same goes here. Toon Ganondorf (t c) 00:06, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
- I was intending to have it for robots that competed outside the UK series, just to make it completely clear which version of the show the results are for. It won't be necessary for robots that were only in the UK series. Christophee (talk) 00:13, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
- If you believe so, but I think we've plastered it on the article enough. However, your logic is reasonable and if you still think so, I'll help. Toon Ganondorf (t c) 00:14, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
- I suppose it is pretty obvious on articles like this which version it refers to, so it's probably not completely necessary. We can leave it out of single-version robots' results tables if you want to. Christophee (talk) 00:20, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, I'll take it off Blue and V3 now. I'm doing the multi-competitors at the same time. Toon Ganondorf (t c) 00:24, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Name[]
Just out of curiosity, does anybody know how this robot's name is pronounced? Christophee (talk) 00:11, September 17, 2009 (UTC)
- "Wortel drie" which is Dutch for "root of three". RA2; aka Resetti's Replicas. (My Talk) 01:42, September 17, 2009 (UTC)
Infobox[]
I've included the other entries from all three teams in the infobox, but that has made it quite long. Instead, we could just use the team pages for WJ and Jeroen (which have already been linked) and link to ODT-Zero for Alex. That way we still link to all five robots indirectly, but the infobox isn't so long. Does anybody have any preferences? Christophee (talk) 11:42, April 13, 2013 (UTC)
- I decided to add the team names, and link that way, so the other entries are no longer required. Hopefully it looks okay. Christophee (talk) 12:20, April 14, 2013 (UTC)
√3²[]
Soon we'll need to rename this page. Jeroen van Lieverloo made it clear in a recent YouTube video and an older Team Tie Rip FB post that the true name is √3², pronounced Wortel Drie Kwadraat in Dutch and Square Root Three Squared in English. The TV show using simply √3 was purely an error. It's a more complicated name but we already can't type √3 without copy and paste so it may as well be the full, official √3². TOAST 12:10, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- Seems like a slam dunk then. Let's begin the pain. Jimlaad43(talk) 12:26, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- Alternatively, couldn’t we just rename it to Wortel Drie Kwadraat, the actual Dutch name? Raz3r(talk) 12:47, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, I support Raz3r's route. I at least feel normalising using Wortel Drie Kwadraat to some degree would be a positive step forward. NJGW (talk) 13:00, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- I can't agree. When Jeroen can Lieverloo put the official name forwards, he said √3² and only told us Wortel Drie Kwadraat as the way to say it in Dutch. If that were the name, the stats board would have said "Wortel Drie" with the Kwadraat erroneously missed off. Clearly, the name is √3² and the show went with √3. Wortel Drie Kwadraat may be possible to type without copy/paste, but does it look better in text? Definitely not, it's haphazardly long, √3² is at least compact. TOAST 13:08, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- It’s not that bad to be fair, at least not in my mind. We use the name Absolut Krankhaft within Arena Killer’s German part of its wiki article, so a name like Wortel Drie Kwadraat doesn’t feel that haphazardly long to me, especially when everyone in DS2 was happy enough to use the Dutch name. Raz3r(talk) 13:22, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- Well yeah the show said Wortel Drie because that's the pronunciation. It is bot, however, the spelling, making √3² the name. I also want to draw attention for the sake of discussion that Combatwombat555 also supported the move to √3² in my blog comments. TOAST 13:32, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- Well, I said it was a better name, I didn't say it was necessarily the right one - but I do agree that √3² is the intended name and should be used. Wortel Drie Kwadraat can be noted as the Dutch pronunciation. Combatwombat555 (talk) 13:51, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- Well yeah the show said Wortel Drie because that's the pronunciation. It is bot, however, the spelling, making √3² the name. I also want to draw attention for the sake of discussion that Combatwombat555 also supported the move to √3² in my blog comments. TOAST 13:32, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- It’s not that bad to be fair, at least not in my mind. We use the name Absolut Krankhaft within Arena Killer’s German part of its wiki article, so a name like Wortel Drie Kwadraat doesn’t feel that haphazardly long to me, especially when everyone in DS2 was happy enough to use the Dutch name. Raz3r(talk) 13:22, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- I can't agree. When Jeroen can Lieverloo put the official name forwards, he said √3² and only told us Wortel Drie Kwadraat as the way to say it in Dutch. If that were the name, the stats board would have said "Wortel Drie" with the Kwadraat erroneously missed off. Clearly, the name is √3² and the show went with √3. Wortel Drie Kwadraat may be possible to type without copy/paste, but does it look better in text? Definitely not, it's haphazardly long, √3² is at least compact. TOAST 13:08, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, I support Raz3r's route. I at least feel normalising using Wortel Drie Kwadraat to some degree would be a positive step forward. NJGW (talk) 13:00, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- Alternatively, couldn’t we just rename it to Wortel Drie Kwadraat, the actual Dutch name? Raz3r(talk) 12:47, July 17, 2020 (UTC)
- √3² is what it should be, with Wortel Drie Kwadraat as an alternative name down in the article as the correct pronunciation. Jimlaad43(talk) 13:14, July 17, 2020 (UTC)