Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

[cliveb]

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Will be decided if and when it is finished Liam.3 or 4 possabilities though. :wink: :wink:

[grant_ploughbot]

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Hey Clive, I am looking at doing the Draw a week before the event if possible. So signups will close the day before then.
I will sort an exact date out tonight with James and put it in the big update.

Sorry it got delayed tonight as its James's birthday.

[razerdave]

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I will be attending the Tag Team champs, but possibly without a drag racer, since my steel fabricators have decided they can'tweld the angle grinders bevel gear to the shaft because they don't think its steel. I'm going to try something drastic and hope to hell it pays off

[grant_ploughbot]

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Dave, it will be steel!
I've welded quite a few up now lol. Otherways can be to drill a hole through and put a pin/bolt through it.
Good luck with it

[RogueTwoRobots]

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Should be getting my power tool tomorrow and hopefully have it finished by the end of the weekend (with exception of the RS cable adapter, which I really should order before I forget :shock: ). It'll have a theme to it, with a little furry animal indigenous to the Scottish Highlands at the wheel

Not gonna be camping anymore though
We figure that since its a pretty long drive back up on Sunday, a comfy bed on the Saturday night and a nice shower in the morning will be a benefit. Plus my dad suffers occasional back pains (he's getting old ) so a camping mat on top of a field probably isn't the most comfortable thing for him. Will still be at any party thingy on the Saturday night though - I believe Ring of Fire is on the cards at somepoint :twisted:

[cliveb]

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We will be signing up this week now a few things are sorted out this end.Who else is going?

[john_frizell]

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Does anyone know the time of day when this event starts? I intend to come [PTDR mostly built] and knowing when it starts would be very helpful in planning the journey.

[razerdave]

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My attendance with a working robot is pending ATM. Finally got the robot back from the welders, and wired in a re-programmed XXL. Its doing exactly the same thing as it did when I sent it.

So Satanix is still brainless for the time being. Thanks a lot Gary.

PS: You know I'm joking

[grant_ploughbot]

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Hey Guys,
Sorry for not answering your questions sooner. This event is a little bit different to others, and all of our decisions have to be passed around and usually altered again and again before anything can be set in stone. We dont want to give out information and then change it the next day!


Camping - Silverline have booked a field at the Haynes Motor Museum on the Friday and saturday night. This is available for £5 a night per tent/caravan. We will be at the venue from Friday morning, so you can come anytime during the day to set up your things (and arena ).
Camping fee€™s are preferred to be paid by cheque along with the £10 entry fee. I will e-mail out the details to send the cheque to shortly.

Event Schedual
As you are aware this is Silverlines Power Tool Drag Racing event, with our Tag Team Championships held along side. Although the event is over 2 days, the majority of the Tag Teams will be run suring the Saturday with the Semi-Finals, Finals and hopefully plenty of whiteboards in between on the Sunday. The Sunday will mainly be filled with Drag Racing.

Saturday

9.00am - Drivers Briefing
9.45am - Indoor Drag Racing Practice
10.30am - 10min break
10.40am - Robot Tag Team Qualifying
11.50am - 10min break
12.00pm - Indoor/Outdoor Drag Racing Practice
1.00pm - 1 hour lunch break
2.00pm - Robot Tag Team Qualifying
3.10pm - 10min break
3.20pm - Indoor/Outdoor Drag Racing practice ( Indoor Qualifying)
4.20pm - 10min break
4.30pm - Robot Tag Team Round 2
5.40pm - Finish

Sunday
8.30am - Drivers briefing
9.00am - Outdoor Drag Racing Qualifying
9.45am - 10min break
9.55am - Robot Tag Team Semi-Finals
10.35am - 10min break
10.45am - Indoor Drag Racing Qualifying
11.30am - 10min break
11.40am - Outdoor Drag Racing Qualifying
12.25pm - 10min break
12.35pm - Indoor Drag Racing Qualifying
1.20pm - 10min break
1.30pm - Outdoor Drag Racing Finals
2.15pm - 10min break
2.25pm - Robot Tag Team Finals
2.55pm - 10min break
3.05pm - Indoor Drag Racing Finals
3.35pm - Prize Giving
4.00pm - Finish.

If there are any changes to the schedual we will let you know asap.
We are still waiting to confirm the times you can arrive on both Saturday and Sunday, we should have these details within the next 24hours.

As you can see, the weekend is going to be VERY busy and we will require every-ones co-operation to ensure the even runs smoothly and on time. If you are not ready with your robot or dragster when your fight or race is ready you will miss out. Minor re-working of the robot fighting order may be acceptable but please let us know as soon as possible if you need your fight moving.

Food/Refreshments

Silverline will be providing food and drinks for everyone during the Sunday of the event along with a BBQ on the Saturday evening for everyone to enjoy.
Breakfast and lunch will be provided on the Sunday.

Haynes Motor Museum have a caf open all weekend for food and refreshments aswell.

Prizes
Silverline tools have Kindly donated a selection of prizes for the Tag Team competiton along with the £4000 cash to be won in the Drag Racing.
Information on these prizes will be given very shortly once confirmed. There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places.

Gadget Show!

As some of you may have seen from last years Power Tool Drag Racing videos that the Gadget Show got involved and failed miserably at creating a Ride on Dragster.
This year they are back, and planning to take home the trophy with what I believe to be a seriously quick Ride-on Drag racer!
Hopefully the filming for this won€™t cause any/many delays to the already tight schedual.
If your on your best behaviour you might make it on TV!

Competition format/Draw/Entries

I will give full details on the competition formats for both the Tag Team and the Drag Racing tomorrow, along with a full list of entries and details on when the Draw will take place.

For anyone wishing to still sign-up, I will be putting a deadline up with the above information tomorrow.
Public audience
This event is not based on ticket sales for entry to watch. The Audience consists of invited guests and customers of Silverline tools so we have no idea on the numbers that will be passing through. I expect the Sunday will be far busier Audience wise than the Saturday.

Full details on how to get to the Haynes Motor Museum are here http://www.haynesmotormuseum.com/about- ... nd-us.html
If you have any questions please ask and I€™ll try to get back to you as soon as possible.

I hope your Robot and Dragster building is going well - and look forward to seeing your creations!

[Baz]

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Hi Grant - thanks for the schedule of events. Can I ask how the qualifying and final thing is working? Is it a knockout event where everyone gets a practise time, then gets put against a similar timed team for a race - the loser then takes no further part?

[grant_ploughbot]

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Hi Baz,
For the drag racing both the indoor and outdoor racing will have 3 qualifying runs. They will be drawn at random so you will be against a different dragster each time.
Your worst time will be dropped and the average of your best 2 runs are used to determine your position. The top 4 Dragsters of each catagory go through to a 3rd and 4th play-off and the 1st and 2nd place finals.

Hope that makes sense!

Also, i'm not sure if your planning on comming on the Saturday - but the Indoor qualifying thats been put on saturday afternoon is for anyone thats there on the saturday. If your only comming Sunday it wont affect you at all.
This is only done because the schedual is so tight and with 40-50 dragsters expected to turn up it is almost impossible to get through all the qualifying runs on the sunday.

[banana_man]

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Grant,
I couldn't use the entry form on your website, so I sent you a signup email. Could you tell me whether you have received it?

[Baz]

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I'll probably be there both days in some capacity old bean. I've got some toys that require playing with!

[grant_ploughbot]

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Alex - Yes I did get your e-mail thankyou. Your are on the list!

Baz - I look forward to seeing them

[razerdave]

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Hey Guys

I'm still struggling with my dragster, and for some very bizzare reason which has not been found out, Satanix's speedo controller blew up yesterday evening (I mean actually blew up - the big capacitor next to the battery In lead on the Scorpion XL blew its top and lots of magic smoke came out).

The controller has been sent for repair and a replacement XXL sent fot the competition. But I still have no clue if this dragster will be done