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  • #61
    Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

    Hi Guys,

    Well once again we’ve raised the bar of our Robot Wars show keeping us at the top !!!!
    During the Saturday evening show I'll be honest, i had a warm feeling when i watched the start of the show in the audience, as we have now officially gone from Roboteers putting on a show with our robots, to a proper professional show which i consider to be on par with any touring theatre show ! Such a great feeling to be where I always dreamed we could be, and of course with the new brand is just unreal.

    A big thank you to all the roboteers who joined us, including the Dutch, Belgium, and German roboteers who we will see some of you in Guildford, and of course our awesome crew who had to work under pressure due to the fan belt snapping on the truck and arriving late !

    Mark and Chris have settled down now in their new roles as co-presenters, and they will get better and better throughout the year !!

    3 nearly sold out shows, and 3 fantastic spectacle shows !

    On the whole our new format tweaks were very well perceived by both audience and roboteers from feed back we have had, our things like the pit camera interviews, and tag team competitions really gave the audience the feeling that they were involved in the show !!
    Removing some of the wires has had the desired effect and has brought back some more oota’s, the audience do like to see the ootas !!

    Congratulations to Eruption, a tribute to all the hard work over the years, and you got to take home one of our brand new fantastic Robot Wars trophies !! Now that’s what you call a trophy !!!
    It was a funny final, I haven’t watched it yet, but the top 4 robots of the event were all on form and it could have gone any way !! Great to see Behemoth self righting again

    Work has already begun on Colchester, only 4 weeks to go…. with a few tweaks to the new current format, addition of a flame jet on the arena floor ( watch out its been coming for a while ) and you never know.. a few more house robots might be able to join us as work has begun on the mission to find them !!!

    John
    Robot wars

    P.s we can organise more grudge matches if you like Jeroenl :-)

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    • #62
      Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

      I want a 1 on 1 with TAN its cost me loads of money

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      • #63
        Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

        Originally posted by beast
        I want a 1 on 1 with TAN its cost me loads of money
        Yeah Tan hates cartwheels! He is the main reason i have switched to HPDE once..

        Originally posted by roamingrobots
        P.s we can organise more grudge matches if you like Jeroenl :-)
        It would take you for ever to get MD back on its feet!

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        • #64
          Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

          I want a 1 on 1 with TAN its cost me loads of money

          John don't do it It will only cost you more money. you can't beat TAN,
          Saint will fight it for you we won't beat it either but it can't hurt us

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          • #65
            Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

            Originally posted by Jeroenl
            Originally posted by beast
            I want a 1 on 1 with TAN its cost me loads of money
            Yeah Tan hates cartwheels!
            TAN loves kart wheels, they are nice and crunchy.

            This was a very nice event indeed. I loved the pace of the show. Not much downtime for the audience to get bored with. The tag team stuff was rather confusing for me, but I guess that is something I'll have to get used to.

            Sorry we had to leave so early in the last show, we had a ferry to catch so we missed the finals. Congrats to Eruption, very good performance throughout the days. Ant and Kane's footage on the flip on Bullfrog I want to see online, the airtime on that was massive.

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            • #66
              Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

              Good to see you Leo,

              Yes it got a bit confusing when we tried to fit the tag team in, making Ripper and Maelstrom fight together at the end as team captains, and link that to the event grand final !!

              We have the solution to make it simpler for Colchester !! Its a learning curve but worked a treat, the audience loved being involved in the show !!

              John
              Robot Wars

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              • #67
                Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

                I think it is a good idea to make the tag team fights longer!

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                • #68
                  Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

                  As in increase from 3 mins to 5 mins ?

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                  • #69
                    Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

                    Most fights don 't even reach 3 minute's ?
                    For example :
                    http://youtu.be/cVILGv6YYBU

                    2.50? I understand that if a fight gets boring its a good thing to count down.. But in this tag team

                    http://youtu.be/ffuE1vXaRFs
                    2.20 ?

                    Non tag team but still very short?
                    http://youtu.be/U538T6YiTsA
                    2.10 minute's

                    Intro fight :
                    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3A9Vqp9tlc
                    2.20

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                    • #70
                      Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

                      Its something for us to think about.

                      We used to have 3 minute automated fight music, but we are currently redoing it all. We will be back to automation by Colchester with the new music.

                      John
                      Robot Wars.

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                      • #71
                        Re: Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmo

                        Many thanks to Jonno and the new Robot Wars crew (I still keep on forgetting about the name change, it'll always be Roaming Robots really :wink: ) for another brilliant event. Everything seemed to run really smoothly even with a new format, and I personally think the tag team added some variety to the show. It was also nice to see the European roboteers again, look forward to seeing you all again at Guildford.

                        I think you can all guess that the event was a success for us! Eruption ran almost flawlessly throughout the weekend with some freak behaviour in the second tag team battle, where it seemed to keep stopping, but that seems to be a one-off like the self-righting against Kronic at Whitwick. Eruption won 5 our of its 6 fights (not too sure if Eruption or Behemoth won the semi, it was a close fight), but I have to admit we did get lucky in the final, but everyone needs a bit of luck every now and then And to top it all off Eruption and TR2/Toon Raider are still undefeated as a tag team! Explosion broke in the last whiteboard due to a rushed Saturday morning Travelodge rebuild, but its working again for next weekend for a bit of last minute testing before the Gadget Show.

                        See you soon either at York or the Gadget Show/Colchester

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