2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

[Mouldy]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

flow v aftershock;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR_mOR4s ... ature=plcp

cobalt v ripoff;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5kge5wl ... sgQNir8%3D

annihiliator?;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOMSrWxi ... tIcSOA4%3D

cobalt v drumroll;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJiG1wNs ... MCuTkT0%3D

[RogueTwoRobots]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Had hoped to be in bed by now, but waiting for the caffeine effects of numerous fizzy drinks to wear off, so just time for a quick message.

Congratulations to Sam for a well deserved win with NST. Even at its first event, when it was the product of quite a rushed build, its levels of reliability were and have been phenomenal, especially considering the forces involved in all its impacts! And it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Also glad to have a spinner finally win it; hopefully we can push on from here and get them in the top tier more regularly.

Well done to Michael with Explosion and Grant driving Little Hitter for 2nd and 3rd respectively. Unlucky Michael for falling just short again, but at least you weren't a victim of the arena this time. And not forgetting Kenny with Cobalt, a great result for a new robot. It's a bloomin' evil machine and I look forward to seeing it in action again
Also, congrats to David on winning the Annihilator. Hope you enjoy it! Loved the insanity of the first round too.

Nice to see so many newcomers to the event this year, but my best newcomer choice would have to be Galactus without a doubt. A formidable weapon and some excellent fights. Even though the teeth were breaking off and were almost non-existent at the end, Guilherme kept it going and got many battles with it. Would be great to see it at a competition again at some time in the future.

And finally, a huge thanks to James, Grant and the rest of the Robo Challenge crew for hosting such a fantastic event! I'm knackered after just three days so god only knows how you guys are still functioning after two events in as many weeks and several days of GSL demos. Your efforts are appreciated by everyone in the community I'm sure, and I can't wait for the next one

Pictures are up now: http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c367/ ... ps%202012/

Will sort out videos within the next week. But now it's time for bed

[psycho_fling]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

It was raining Beautys on the way to the car last night

[PJ-27]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

We had a great weekend! Although the robots were pants!

Thanks to Kenny, Jamie, Mouldy and Dave in helping us getting Bitza moving. I'll update the build diary with an event break down but one of these years we'll turn up with a robot that can actually move......

Congratulations to Sam for winning, finally a spinner! Most impressed though that you managed to swap back to the old system the night before and then went on to win! Just goes to show how valuable reliability, driving skill and luck of the draw is.
Beaten by the washing machine though.... Although I'm pretty sure it lost drive on one side, judges?

Well done to Explosion for maintaining 2nd and being the only robot from last years top 10 to qualify, to Grant for not only coming 3rd with someone else bot, but also controlling the weapon on the bot that won it! And finally to Kenny for building an awesome new machine and achieving 4th!

[Ellis]

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Thank you to everybody for such an awesome experience. Mr. Weston, you've been a great laugh and a great help. Your generosity is off the scale. Congratulations on the win, too, you deserve it. James and Grant for being equally brilliant; the whole event went brilliantly smoothly, I'm sure that was no accident. And thanks for the aid with our robot, we wouldn't have managed half of what we did without your help. Thanks Paul, for being generally hilarious! Sam for being impossibly friendly and generous (and for despite having potentially the most damaging machine thus far, not showing even a hint of arrogance), and the thanks list goes on. Everybody was lovely, we felt 100% welcome. I feel I've known some of you for years!

Sadly, Tormenta will be retired. After 10 battles we think Tormented would be a more suitable name! Nah, we had great fun, we learned a TON, and getting completely mashed by the later found champ is fine by us.

We will be back next year, hopefully stronger, scarier, and without even so much as a hint of chopping boards!

Thank you!

Edit: we have quite a lot of footage; we will upload over the coming weeks. Anyone who has our fight with NST on video, please link us!

[Revsmin]

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Anyone who has our fight with NST on video, please link us!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRwgkHO1tN4

[Max]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Anyone got the video of centrifuge vs ts2 vs kaizer?

[Revsmin]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Keep checking my channel, all competition fights will be uploaded soon enough...

[Kenny]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Thank You Robo challenge for such a great event, Cobalt performed better than i ever thought getting to 4th place, it was a real shame NST damaged my motors so i couldn't really move in the 3rd/4th play off, I would like to congratulate sam smith with NST on winning the championship all the years work making it more reliable really payed off! and also dave weston of winning the annihilator championship well done!, Roll on to the next one!

[psychostorm]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

Explosion after the final:

Best angle I've got:


Videos:
Cobalt v NST:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWsZG...YAOtd685A5ipw=
Explosion v Little Hitter:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmxQR...W5NFjrB8hwCC0=
Cobalt v Little Hitter:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lKcP...DZpmJ8uSif4_c=
Explosion v NST:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igogs...8MBNE=#t=2m10s

[PJ-27]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

I also want to say thank you to everyone for your kind words on the audio intros, and to RoboChallenge for making a system to play them back.
I don't know who it was but they did a very neat job with the software to run it and I believe they were up until quite late Saturday night trying to get it going!
Thumbs up to Explosion for ranking the same as last year, now I don't have to update yours! Thumbs down to Flow and LH entering the comp at the last minute and then going on to do very well since me and Kane had to very quickly make yours up on the day!

Originally I was going to offer the samples up to be bought by the teams to help cover my costs, but given that many people didn't get to hear theirs I'm going to upload a folder with them all so people can take as they please. If you fancy donating some cash for yours then my paypal addy is p.j.belcher@hotmail.co.uk and would be much appreciated.

Does anyone know a neat way to upload a folder of many files for public download?

[cliveb]

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What a really great event,many thanks to all at Robochallenge for putting it on.

Congratulations to Sam on winning and to Michael and Grant on second and third. Wendy Alex and myself are so pleased to see David Weston win the Annihilator,well done mate.

There were some superb fights over the three days,some great banter,lots of new machines and loads of new faces.Thanks to everybody staying at the hotel we were in for making the evenings so much fun,superb company.

Finally about us. Alex finished 13th with Tiny Toon, I finished 10th with 4 4 Toon and Wendy 6th with Rip-Off, so we came home very pleased and satisfied.

See you all soon

Clive

[psycho_fling]

Re: 2012 FRA UK Featherweight Championships by RoboChallenge

There were some superb fights over the three days,some great banter,lots of new machines and loads of new faces.
Clive

i echo this great to finally meet Pedro, the lonely bear, R2D2 and C3PO :P

[Team Invade]

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A massive thanks to James, Grant and everyone on the RoboChallenge crew for such a fantastic, and I'm sure what will become a truly memorable event. This has to be up there in one of the best events I've ever been to, even if the most stressful event of the year!

Congratulations to Sam for a deserved win with NST, certainly the best spinner I have ever seen, so very well done. Other congratulations go to Team Big Nipper and Grant for coming 3rd with LH2, Kenny for doing so well for a first event with Cobalt, and Dave for a long deserved piece of success. Not to mention Will for the nasty slot he put in our flipper arm, and Sam again for destroying the shell, spare arm and armour, although I am happy that I atleast came the closest to breaking NST. Also a big thanks to Dave Moulds for re-welding our arm after Inertia cracked the welds on Friday.

Very pleased with coming second twice in a row, but gutted that once again we just missed out on winning the whole competition, atleast I didn't get stuck this year! Explosion will be back as soon as possible, hopefully for Aylesbury, and will be coming back next year to hopefully make the final for the third year running, and hopefully win it for a change!

[Laser]

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Thanks alot to James, Grant and the whole RoboChallenge team for putting on a superb event!
And also thanks to all the roboteers for being so friendly.


We had a really good time and were suprised that laser worked all the time and the only problem was the drill moving in its mount


A massive well done to Michael for coming 2nd with explosion, it was a excellent final, Grant and the big nipper guys with a 3rd from LH2, Kenny with cobalt and most of all Sam with NST for doing superbly and being the first ever spinner to win the UK champs

I have got 70 videos that I am uploadinbg to youtube, so should be done tommorow and I have got 150+ photos of the event and GSL.