Congratulations Typhoon

[team_mammoth]

Congratulations Typhoon

Garry, can you please stop smashing the arena...its not Mammoth so what has it done to you?

[typhoon_driver]

Congratulations Typhoon

well u see at times stuart typhoon got lonely without mammoth and so it was trying to smash its way out to see mammoth however the production crew and especially derek (typhoon is scared of derek) didnt let typhoon out.

[team_penetrator]

Congratulations Typhoon

poor typhoon :0P

[team_mammoth]

Congratulations Typhoon

Well we did offer to go and act as Special Guest Refbot but they thought youd object

[craig_anto]

Congratulations Typhoon

we have a 50kg disc with at least 75% of the weight at the edge, 1m wide and spins at 900 rpm (the current gearing means it can go to 1200rpm but we hadnt balanced the disc well enough). Even so we can deliver around the 40kj mark we reakon.

My ruff maths only puts Typhoon at 25-27KJ
not far off the maths I worked out for my cage spinner (work robot that never got finished)

no doubt is good i just thought 40kj was a tad high

[revolutionroger]

Congratulations Typhoon

Too high - you mean too low.
50kg with 75% at diameter, and remainder evenly distributed towards centre generates 49kj (at 900rpm)

Most impressive, and congratulations

Roger.

[craig_anto]

Congratulations Typhoon

http://www.teamcosmos.com/ke/ke.shtmlwww.teamcosmos.com/ke/ke.shtml

I got 25.556KJ
its alot higher if you dont use the right calculation
if u use 1/2 mass times velocity squared you do get somewhere close to 50KJ
the site uses the proper calculations

[swanaldo]

Congratulations Typhoon

i think storm 2 was totally and utterly robbed. i watched the final in my pub with 8 people and i had a bet with them knowing the result.... at the end of the fight they all voted storm 2. good robot and all that gary but i think you were very lucky to get that result.

[typhoon_driver]

Congratulations Typhoon

i know we were shane but then personnally i think that the fight was very good.

craig we have had our own calculations confirmed by many top engineers and physicists to put the figure at 40kj, the only problem is that you would have to work it out for each individual part and so you would have to get a good rumage around to get an accurate calculation although im slightly bewildered at the interest that people have shown towards T2.

[fwsorg]

Congratulations Typhoon

afterall, why should anyone show any interest to a championship winning, full body spinning, precision-machined-by-a-defence-company robot? :-p

[julian]

Congratulations Typhoon

The spike need not puncture Typhoon. It just needs to be able to push it about. Two spikes and you could have a go at slamming it into something else.

Im looking more at the middleweight. We almost gave Gary a fright at Extreme 2 because we could slam the front armour in above the cutters. Sometimes the lowest ground clearance isnt the best.

I was stupid in putting an unfinished robot up against Typhoon. The original Broadsword, whilst having a lot less power, would have at least got into the next round. It was (just) a heavy so removing the unnecessary top armour would have got me in. Its all a learning experience, I suppose.

[jamesb]

Congratulations Typhoon

2 things

ti is a pig to weld, but the ti was bolted on and it was the steel spaceframe weld that failed

secondly, seen no denial of the conspiricy theories so by that Im assuming all 5 are correct?

[typhoon_driver]

Congratulations Typhoon

lol, i just decided to stay right out of the conspiracy theories although perhaps the one about me being a master tactitian is correct............

[jamesb]

Congratulations Typhoon

I think thats the closest well get on those then, although Ed is yet to deny popping off John F..... hummmm.....

[shredderteam]

Congratulations Typhoon

Anyone else notice the lack of speed in Storm II during this fight then?
Thatll be Ed swapping a battery pack for the heavier side armour then..
Probably a mistake considering the complete lack of side impacts from Typhoon as far as I can remember.. the extra speed/push would have served him much better..

Anyway.. was a great fight, though I thought Storm II won at the time, and the footage did nothing to change my opinion.

Perhaps RW didnt want to see a push bot winning for the second year running?
Hmmmmmm.....


Sam