2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

[teamstorm]

Hotel Room Going Spare - £49 a night

If anyone is after a hotel room, I have one going spare - all paid for.

Holiday Inn Solihull, 1 junction from the event (3.4 miles away)

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Nice hotel, pool etc, yours on Friday and Saturday night for just £49 a night !

PM if interested

[john]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Grant/James

Do we get tickets for the Gadget Show Live Show this year. If not is their anyway we can purchase some?

[typhoon_driver]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

as far as im aware we get passes that allow us to wander throughout the entire show and see it all free of charge. Not gonna keep up locked up in the arena when we're not needed :P

[john]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

It's the extra theater show i'm on about, we got V.I.P tickets last year but as their is so many of us this year we would be very lucky if we all got one! Hopefully we can though, was really good!

http://fwd.channel5.com/gadget-show/vid ... eatre-show

[typhoon_driver]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

again grant mentioned that one to me. Something about trying to squeeze in. Basically bat your eye lids and flirt your way through

[PJ-27]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

This is more of a question for the EO's, but is the event going to run as Team Invade detailed in an earlier post?

And is the Only bring your Robot if your competing on the day rule going to apply for the Sunday?

We were hoping to stay the whole weekend and WhiteBoard on the Sunday, but firstly it seems unlikely we'll qualify, and secondly if we did then we would be too pre-occupied with the competition as I would imagine the other robots would be....

Thanks!

[grant_ploughbot]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Hi P.J, Due to the Pit Area being smaller than usual, we have to limit the number of robots per day to 20 in total for safety reasons. This is why we have extended the event by an extra day to accomodate this.
This doea mean that you are allocated a Pit space for the days that you are competing and your pit tables are re-allocated for another robot on the next day.

This needs to stay the case unless there is a large amount of Pit space spare in the first 2 days.

We do however plan to run plenty of whiteboard on your day of competition, and also choose 6 competitors that have been knocked out of the competition for the annihilator to fight on Sunday.

You are more than welcome to come for all 3 days to the show, but due to Pit space unless competing then only the robots allocated for that day is allowed in the Pit Area.

Regarding the Live Theatre shows, I believe there are 3 shows each day - if you que up before the show there are a certain amount of tickets for sale on a first come first serve basis. I do recomend trying to go in and see it! You should even see James Nick and I on the big screen LOL.

[PJ-27]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Cheers Grant, sounds fair enough.

What about the running of the competition, is it as Team Invade detailed?

Well, going off the champs in 2009, it goes roughly like this:

To start we have 3 qualifier round with three robots in each, from these qualifiers we gain points for the following
4 points for a knockout win
3 points for win by judges decision
2 points for 2nd place
1 point for 3rd place (but the robot must have entered the arena)
0 points for not entering the arena

The qualifier rounds are decided by the pre-event draw

Top ten scores from the qualifiers go through to the knockout rounds, which goes:
5 1v1 fights
5 way losers melee, 1 robot goes through

3 1v1 fights
3 way losers melee, 1 robot goes through

2 1v1 semifinals

3rd place play off

Final

[xtreme]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Well just got a reply from flightpower. Lipos haven't even been sent out yet so they won't arrive for the event. I gave century uk a call and they said they should be able to get me some lipos in time for the event. Seem quite decent and helpful at century. So hopefully I'll have them Thursday. Should have the drum itself complete tonight. I'll get pics uploaded if I do

[blazerbotics]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Glad i didn't order any by the sounds of it! Grant do we need car passes to get through the security gates for loading, im guessing were coming in through gate 3 to get to 11.1?

[botmad]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

When are you doing the draw Grant

[beast]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

draw has been done ages ago pete

The draw is as follows:-
Friday

Fight1

Project-E vs Tiny Toon vs Beauty 2
Little Flipper 3 vs Captain Scarlett vs Mini Mighty Mouse
Daiske vs Cicatrix vs BuzzBar
Boner vs Basher! vs Calum Jones
540 vs Wedgie vs Aftershock
Alpha vs Inertia XL vs Seraph

Fight 2

Alpha vs Daiske vs Aftershock
Wedgie vs Seraph vs Beauty 2
Inertia XL vs Calum Jones vs 540
Little Flipper 3 vs Cicatrix vs Tiny Toon
Basher! vs Project-E vs Mini Mighty Mouse
Captain Scarlett vs Boner vs BuzzBar

Fight 3

Beauty 2 vs Aftershock vs Cicatrix
Captain Scarlett vs Calum Jones vs Seraph
Project-E vs Alpha vs Wedgie
Basher! vs Inertia XL vs BuzzBar
Tiny Toon vs 540 vs Mini Mighty Mouse
Little Flipper 3 vs Boner vs Daiske

Saturday

Fight 1

Bruiser vs Beauty 4 vs Ironside
Satanix vs Bitza vs Cyberon
Block of Wood vs Vortex vs 4 4 Toon
Explosion vs Heatwave vs Bonx
NST vs Carcinus vs Drumroll 2
Little Spinner 4 vs Tron vs Kaizer
Asguard vs The Toonimator vs Kaizer

Fight 2

Tron vs Ironside vs Bonx
Beauty 4 vs 4 4 Toon vs NST
Little Spinner 4 vs Block of Wood vs Explosion
Heatwave vs Bitza vs Bruiser
Asquard vs Carcinus vs Vortex
Cyberon vs The Toonimator vs Drumroll

Fight 3

Cyberon vs Kaizer vs NST
Little Spinner 4 vs Bitza vs Vortex
Asguard vs Drumroll 2 vs Heatwave
Beauty 4 vs Tron vs The Toonimator
Carcinus vs Explosion vs Bruiser
4 4 Toon vs Satanix vs Ironside
Bonx vs Block of Wood vs Satanix

[teamshock]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Inertia XL and Heatwave are all done ready for the event. Heatwave has a new flipper arm and seems to be working better than ever. Just waiting for the paint to dry on Inertia.

The only downside is that there will be no Aftershock at this event- the others have taken too long to get ready and there is so much work left to do that there just isn't enough time. I'll look at throwing together some form of replacement but it probably won't get done in time

Really looking forward to this one now

[xtreme]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

Got drum done, just got rest of robot to build now, 2 nights to do it. Plenty of time right?

[typhoon_driver]

Re: 2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

very nice tom, whats the final weight of the drum? What you running it off and what rpm you aiming for?