2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

[teamshock]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Another fairly good draw for Aftershock 2 this time against Ironside and Tron. Quite funny really since this is the 3rd year in a row that I've drawn Ironside in the first round of the Championships- sorry Trev

Just got to get the robot finished now- shouldn't take too long hopefully.

Also it's looking like Heatwave won't be competing since Matt can no longer make it- sorry guys!! Whirlpool should still be coming just needs a new motor and its good to go even if it is fighting Savage EVO and LS4

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

4 4 Toon and Savage Evo HD. Looks like we've got a rematch Tom but of the new machines this time
Although I've seen some pics on Facebook, Evo HD is still a bit of an unknown quantity so going to be another interesting battle. 4 4 Toon's anti-spinner cage worked well last year and stood up well to 360 so it won't be a pushover. I'm kind of hoping to get Boner in the third round; not so much to get the chance to fight it, but just because it would be cool having old v new.

I think Christmas has just come early for Dave

[blazerbotics]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Yipee, no flippers for me yet!

[ady]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

is anyone planning on filming the fights and putting them on youtube.

[james...venom]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

i hope so. Im sure with the line up and draw so far there will be some battles to remember.

[razerdave]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Thats a better second round fight than my first, another rambot and an overhead sword. I see the problem being getting rid of seraphim because Satanix and Alpha will just pass underneath it. I think I have the slight advangta because I have the spikes on the back, and if I can get them through the spokes I can stop it rolling away. Alpha is another problem, its insanely fast even for Satanix.

[james...venom]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Dave you have a good final battle to get through have to wait til tomorrow to find out who

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Adrian, I'm hoping to get as many battles on my camera as I can. I always aim to get at least the spinner battles on video, so there should hopefully be some good footage.
May have to go for a lower quality video setting to fit things in as my camera hard drive is filling up, but considering I'm currently on the highest setting, that probably shouldn't affect the picture quality too much.

EDIT: Just got the tent out the loft to check it was all okay and to remind myself how it went up. Last time it was packed up was at the end of the 2007 Eurochamps so it was in need of an airing! The good news is it's all fine and that I'm really looking forward to camping. The more important news is that I've now got a corner of my tent allocated for the coke and Jack Daniels bottles

[blazerbotics]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Grant, did you have any luck with the campsite about a discount?

[razerdave]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Sorry to spoil the wait guys, but the 3rd draw is already on the website.

And I got probably the worst fight of the lot.

Savage Evo and 360.

God/Lucifer/Allah/Buddah/Spongebob help me :P

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Well I've got another Toon (of the Tiny variety) and Asgard. Quite looking forward to this one; not sure what damage I can do to Tiny Toon but Asgard is quite large so I'm hoping there will be weaker areas that I can attack that aren't in the line of fire of the axe because, err, my top panel isn't very thick!

Thinking back to what happened the last time Drumroll on brushless and Tiny Toon were in the arena together.....Alex, let's smash some walls

[teamshock]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Well I think I have been pretty lucky with this years draw since I'm only fighting one spinner so far still got some good opponents though.

Tanto and Weed could be tough, know the robots but have never seen them fight so could make for another interesting fight.

Managed to get some more work done on Aftershock today and it moves and just needs a couple of small bits finished before it's fully battle ready. Can't wait now- should be a great championships!!

[razerdave]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Its been bought to my attention that theres a few fights where robots have to fight the same one twice, such as Beauty 2 having to fight Toonimator twice, Blitz Quattro has Savage Evo HD twice and Heatwave *would* have had Juggernaut twice. Any chance of this being rectified ? Just in the interest of fair play.

[james...venom]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

In the interest of fair play we can't sorry. The draw was completely out of a hat so the results must stay. A team has no Real advantage or disadvantage by being drawn against the same opponent. Sorry.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

Well I have time to kill waiting for the dog to get out the shower so I can go in, so in the meantime I fancy myself some predictions. All based on the assumption that every machine is in full working order. Bold names are the ones I reckon will take 4/3 points, italics are who I reckon will take 2 points, and the remaining robot 1 point.


First Battle

Beauty 2 v Tiny Toon v The Toonimator
Aftershock v LS2 v Kaizer MK2
Savage Evo v Weed v Whirlpool
Beauty 4 v 360 v Tron
Alpha v Basher v Captain Scarlet
Drumroll 2 v Sam Smith v Seraph
Savage Evo HD v Ironside v Blitz Quattro
Heatwave v Juggernaut v 4 4 Toon
MMM v Tanto v Boner
LS4 v Asgard v Satanix

Second Battle

Savage Evo v Tanto v LS2
MMM v Captain Scarlet v Tiny Toon
Drumroll 2 v 4 4 Toon v Savage Evo HD
Aftershock v Ironside v Tron
Beauty 2 v 360 v The Toonimator
Beauty 4 v Boner v Weed
Alpha v Satanix v Seraph
Heatwave v Juggernaut v Asgard
Kaizer v Basher v Sam Smith
LS4 v Whirlpool v Blitz Quattro

Third Battle

Drumroll 2 v Asgard v Tiny Toon
Savage Evo v Satanix v 360
Beauty 4 v Kaizer v Seraph
Alpha v 4 4 Toon v Sam Smith
Basher v Ironside v Boner
LS4 v Captain Scarlet v Juggernaut
Aftershock v Tanto v Weed
MMM v Toonimator v Whirlpool
Beauty 2 v LS2 v Heatwave
Blitz Quattro v Tron v Savage Evo HD

Think I'm going to keep score this year of all the battles, just to have as a record and to see how bad a predictor I am