Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

[Kenny]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

for some reason i havent gone to bed and wrote the report up so here you go

http://www.teamkenny.tkwww.teamkenny.tk

thanks
kenny

[jjmc]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

Attended the Newcastle Sunday 1st August 12.00 show and a great day had by all. Our personal opinions (mine and my children) were that this event, although small scale, less grandeous and without big name presenters, was actually better than the Offical Robot Wars Live TeleWest Arena event of 2001 (at least I think it was 2001).

Because it was closer to the audience it seemed more real. The battles were battles and although a couple may have been calmed down to prevent damage (ie Pussycats blade didnt appear to be spinning) they were far less staged than TeleWest. Sparks flew, the pit stopped working, the flipper blade fell off but it was great.

KEEP IT UP!

The children would like a personal appearance at their school. How much?

All the best.

Jim

[team_ireland]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

Great event. Great battles and loads of smoke.

In the first show flipper was running great flipping well with the compressers running really well when all of a sudden smoke started pouring out of the robot. I made a fool of myself shouting Im on fire, Im on fire then someone joined in Fire, fire, fire!!!!! It turned out the drive pack had broken the link accross the bottom of the pack. Nothing to do with me so I am sending them back. Luckally no unfixable damage. Replaced the two blown drive motors and that was it. The problem was then I had to run without the compressers and hence no flipper so i was a sitting duck. 2nd fight kenny flipped me and that was it I could do nothing. 3rd fight was much better. Pushing a few things about before alpha rammed me at full speed into the side of the arena beaching me on the flipper pannel and knocking out my receiver battery.

In the 3rd show kenny smoked when its led shorted out. Very impressive for the crowd but worrying for the roboteers luckally no major damage for him.

Great event all in all with in My opinion the proformance of the show being mute in the very veyr first fight. From practically the middle of the arena it flipped merlin against the screens about halfway up them! Very impressive.

Note to jonno: Can we have mute as a featherweight house robot so the arena flipper and it can play ping pong with feathers?

Regards
Ian

[stu]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

Was a good event.
Sorry if i looked down in gloom, was quite ill to be honest felt like i wanted to pass out a few times. But was a great event, with everyone on their tip toes. Wasgreat event.

Jim Clark - Contact Jonno@roamingrobots.co.uk mate about the school thing. hehe.
As for Pussycats blade, it was off due to a number of reasons. Main one being, even theor Pussycats blade maybe out of date a bit, it still has the potential to do some vital damage which is what we dont really want at some fun events like that. But was soo cool to see Mute flip her about. Great show!

Mr Stu

[blazerbotics]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

great event, probably one of the best. The small amount of robots actaully made it better as we managed to get in the arena when we wanted to.

Robots ran well all weekend, Alpha didnt loose a fight and the vantec perfomed well. Merlin won 3 out of 4 fights.

Highlights of weekend;

G3 and Kenny beating up Behemoth (nearly had him over)

Stu being Gaffad to a chair then locked in arena!

Listening to the keep fit club on the sunday morning!

See you at Stoke, hopefully new alpha will be done (although i keep saying that and it never is!). Weve just stripped Merlin so we can start on the new one.

[storm]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

Best bit of the show for me.......

.... everyone pulling together and working as a team to make it a great show, and one of the best Ive been to so far.

The format of these RR shows just needs a little work and I think we could all be on to a real winner !

Ed
http://www.teamstorm.comhttp://www.teamstorm.com

[blazerbotics]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

i agree Ed. If this is the sign of things to come, then i cant wait for the winter tour!

[fwsorg]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

Ive often found, in my short but reasonably live event (not necessarily of the robotic variety) filled life, that the camaraderie, temawork, and general desire to put on a good show is much better. Its not so much the organisers having to look after roboteers and audience, as it is at larger events, as it is the roboteers and organisers being as one and putting on a show for the audience. Thats not to say the roboteers dont help at bigger events, but its much easier at smaller ones :-)

Anway, sounds like a great event- have heard great reports from all involved- would have liked to have come but its a bit far to go from the south coast without a robot :-)

[big_nipper]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

Very disapointing event for us on the Saturday. Not anything to do with the show that was great, just our robot blew 2 speedos in 2 fights. Wanted it to be the last test before the big one but looks like weve got a lot of work to do. It worked better on sunday and had a great fight with Ripper even though the flipper button fell apart.

Still blew another speedo on the weapon in the last fight as well, but picked up some Dogs bollocks speedos yesturday.

Best bit of the weekend for me is watching that kids face light up when he was picked to drive a robot against vortex and then standing there while Ed destroyed it

[storm]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

Nothing like building up their confidence and then totally crushing it in front of a paying audience

Ed
http://www.teamstorm.comhttp://www.teamstorm.com

[teammad]

Roaming Robots, Newcastle - 31st Jul / 1st Aug

Event report and photos now up: http://www.teammad.co.ukwww.teammad.co.uk

click events, then newcastle roaming robots.