First beetleweight robot

[DaveB]

So on Saturday we took Landslide to compete in our first event at the Battle in the 'burgh in Edinburgh. Whilst my better half was enjoying the sights the kids and I spent the whole day at the event and had an absolute blast! Thanks so much to all the brilliant, helpful and friendly folks we met there and to the organisers for running such a great event. We managed to win our first ever fight, more by luck than judgement I feel, but never the less took some really big hits and managed to keep going long enough to claim a victory which I guess is part of the game. In round two it was pretty clear that we were mightily outclassed by another big spinner and an awesome piece of robot engineering in 'Night fury' and that our brittle chopping board armour wasn't going to cut the mustard. However, we survived more hits than expected, even without our wedge which was too badly mangled in the first battle. The fact that we kept going as long as we did was very gratifying. Damage was fortunately confined to non-essential parts and we managed to rebuild (mostly) to get back in the arena for a friendly later on so that my eldest got a brief drive with some other non-spinners. Overall we were really chuffed that we took part and that the robot worked as intended. Witnessing the rest of the battles over the day was terrific and really inspiring. Hopefully we'll make it to another one next year!

[Sam_DRT]

Hi Dave, Landslide was a really impressive first time build, it just kept going! HDPE instead of chopping boards and I think it'll be lasting the full 3 minutes with spinners

[McMullet]

Well done on your first event! I was watching the live stream and recognised Landslide when it came up - I won't deny, I had a bad feeling about how it was going to go but you did brilliantly! Very impressive.

[DaveB]

Thanks both. We certainly learnt an awful lot. The power in some of the spinners is pretty scary,not to mention the air raid siren of doom!