Best Driver Around?

[lex]

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Gary certainly impressed me at Technogames and the Typhoon spinners must have been trickier than most to drive. I don't know about some of the robots listed by John as needing a lot of skill. anything with 4WD seems to be easier if there's enough power to 'skid' effectively. Terrorhurtz always seems very precisely driven and Jonno is extremely good- lots of practice! Andy's son is really good with Kan Opener too. Back in the day George and Kim were probably the best, Andy Marchant was very good too, as was Mr Adams with the 'Thing' series. Narrow 2WD robots tend to be the trickiest to keep on line, so driving something like that well is fairly impressive.

[cliveb]

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Currently the best drivers around have got to be Ian Thomas and his partner from the tag team champs last year.If those 2 guys can get 2 rambots to the semi finals against all of those so called top class spinners and flippers they must be pretty special in my eyes.

[George_TeamZog]

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This topic could be: What do you think of this person's driving?

I'll start off: What do you think of my driving? (I have driven Mini Mighty Mouse, 4 4 Toon, Tilly Evo, SMIDSY, operated Scorpion's axe, one of Dave Weston's ants, and LR Evo.

[grafix]

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Hey, this is a no brainer question. I am the best driver!!!! lol.

[calumco]

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would definatly say the hardest type of robot to drive are 2 wheel drive with the wheels at the front

when your used to 2 wheel drive with the wheels at the back or in the middle it just handles completly different

[razerdave]

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Tell me about it Calum, I had to put a gyro to be able to drive in a straight line :P

[ian_humphrey]

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I agree with Dave and Calum, Weird Alice was a complete nightmare. The only person to drive it with what looked like full control was Jonno. It's currently being rebuilt with 4 wheel drive, much easier. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Therefore, Jonno would probably get my vote for his ablilty to drive Weird Alice with control, that said I would also commend Shane Lale for how well he drive's Weird mAlice and any other robot he get's hold off.

[pressure]

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That's always been the problem with Skink, front wheel drive.
File under: seemed like a good idea at the time!
Mike.

[lex]

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There you go Ian, 4WD coming up and you've already got the armour upgrade- I feel vindicated suggesting all of that at Hemel three years back. Just needs a bigger scoop on the front to finish up! Nice to see you've been getting some results with the new machine, BTW- you guys deserve it.

[ian_humphrey]

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John, we're going to be replacing the flipper with an axe as part of the rebuild, just so we have a different weapon to play with.

[Guest]

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John, we're going to be replacing the flipper with an axe as part of the rebuild, just so we have a different weapon to play with.

mostly when it was on TV the axe's were mostly the people who lost in my opinion, like if you have a good flipper you can win against an AXE pretty easy, but as thingy says, depends on the driving.

[lex]

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Good stuff Ian- can't have too many axebots! If I ever get Ka-Pow! back in the arena (it could happen...) it's rematch time. I think we only went one-on-one once against Weird Alice, and that went to us, but you did get the first flip in. Robot Rumble '06 I think...
Of course if we were talking worst driver I'd be in with a shout, although we still won a few. I think we hold a winning record against Beast, eh John?


Oh, and Pyrogram- depends on the axebot. Most of them weren't that great when RW was on TV. It's certainly not easy to beat Terrorhurtz, and the current version of Thor is pretty formidable too.

[Guest]

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Good stuff Ian- can't have too many axebots! If I ever get Ka-Pow! back in the arena (it could happen...) it's rematch time. I think we only went one-on-one once against Weird Alice, and that went to us, but you did get the first flip in. Robot Rumble '06 I think...
Of course if we were talking worst driver I'd be in with a shout, although we still won a few. I think we hold a winning record against Beast, eh John?


Oh, and Pyrogram- depends on the axebot. Most of them weren't that great when RW was on TV. It's certainly not easy to beat Terrorhurtz, and the current version of Thor is pretty formidable too.

yer thats true, but the good old hypno-disc pwned with that disc lol , what happened to there robot if you know

[lex]

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Retired. I don't know if they exhibit it, or do lectures. I've not heard of them attending live events even to display, but then I haven't been to a gig myself for a couple of years, so I'm not certain. Towards the end on the TV show they were looking a bit vulnerable to the better armoured flippers. The final version was still dangerous though! If you're keen on Hypnodisc, try to get to the featherweight championships later this month (see details elsewhere on the forum), and see 360 in action. For it's size it is incredibly powerful- IIRC it is more powerful in absolute terms compared to early versions of Hypnodisc!
We are veering seriously off topic though- my steering of threads may be even worse than of robots...

[Guest]

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Retired. I don't know if they exhibit it, or do lectures. I've not heard of them attending live events even to display, but then I haven't been to a gig myself for a couple of years, so I'm not certain. Towards the end on the TV show they were looking a bit vulnerable to the better armoured flippers. The final version was still dangerous though! If you're keen on Hypnodisc, try to get to the featherweight championships later this month (see details elsewhere on the forum), and see 360 in action. For it's size it is incredibly powerful- IIRC it is more powerful in absolute terms compared to early versions of Hypnodisc!
We are veering seriously off topic though- my steering of threads may be even worse than of robots...

yer, but i you did awnser my question so thanks,been wanting to go to a live event for some time, just need to find a time when im free lol. ok lets get back on topic