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Hi everyone,
I have just completed my first heavy weight robot and anxious to use it. It looks like Robot Wars series 11 is taking a bit of a back burner this year. So was wondering if anyone is aware of any up and coming events for heavy weights this year?
There is definitely Robots Live! and Extreme Robots this year, they have already posted their dates on the respective websites but they have yet to post the signup forms.
A combined list of dates (subject to change of course)
21st - 22nd April: Extreme Robots Manchester
28th - 29th April: Robots Live! Burgess Hill
19th - 20th May: Extreme Robots Portsmouth
9th - 10th June: Extreme Robots Guildford
23rd - 24th June: Robots Live! Grantham
15th - 16th Sept: Extreme Robots Colchester
21st - 23rd Sept: Extreme Robots Chatham
22nd - 23rd Sept: Robots Live! Stevenage (FRA HW championship I believe)
27th - 28th Oct: Extreme Robots Maidstone
10th - 11th Nov: Extreme Robots Gloucester
As an aside, EXR Chatham and RL Stevenage clash... which makes things slightly interesting because of the championship that weekend.
If your Heavyweight is a spinner, you won't be able to run it at Robots Live! events, their arena isn't classed for them (unless that has changed?) and Extreme Robots have their own limitations about the tip speed, again because of the class of arena.
Hi Michael, once again you've come up trumps for me (not president...) thank you very much for the info. I didn't realise there were other websites too. My robot is not spinner, it's a ramming robot so shouldn't be problem.
Yeah, it shouldn't be a problem provided it passes tech check of course ;) Hopefully I'll have Kaizen running by Grantham in time to iron out any flaws in it.
I've stuck rigidly to Robot wars build rules, especially with the electrical side, so all should be good :D. Grantham will be one of my choice venues if all goes well, so hopefully we'll meet up there. Guess we both could be trialling our bots... can't wait...
:D Though it isn't likely to cause any issues, the FRA does have its own set of rules which the RW rules closely follow but there are some differences so it is worth checking that your bot meets both of them. I can't see why it wouldn't but you never know.
From what I can see is the FRA insist on a fuse and light after the link. But will check again. Thanks.
Hi Cliff-any photos of your Robot ?
Does Your Robot have a active weapon ? as I believe that's a must
if you wish to take part in Robot Wars television events and auditions.
Hi Colin, Here is an early photo. You will see that there are no active weapons, just the robot as a whole.
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They'll be put up on here eventually but traditionally the season starts earliest February. The year's events tend to go up after the Dublin event this week.
She's beautiful! Hope to see you at Manchester.
Thanks Theo, lets hope it does as well as it looks.... Yes looking forward to the Manchester event, just waiting for the applications to become available. See you there :D
Robots live grantham :)
Hi Swan, great news, is the application form for robot entry available yet? if so where can I find it please?
Big shows for us this year;
Robots Live Burgess Hill: 28th & 29th April
Robots Live Grantham: 23rd & 24th June
Robots Live Stevenage: 22nd & 23rd September
Sign ups will be up soon, keep and eye out on here for details.
Hi everyone, just checking if there has been postings for any HW robot entry applications to events for this year yet. If there are, could someone send me details please.
Look forward to meeting up. Many thanks
The signup form for all of the Extreme Robots events has gone live (many thanks to Outlaw for pointing this out):
http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/f...ZLgQK6073tYFlz
Hopefully, I'll have finished building and rebuilding Kaizen and The Honey Badger respectively by then!
Thanks for posting this Michael, have just signed up for a few. Hypothetical question, if I were to build another robot over the summer & wish to enter it along with my current FW into one of the events towards the end of the year, would I have to enter it as a different team or redo my application for the old one?
You might have to take that up with John Findlay when you go to one of the events, ask him as he's the one that sets up the whole thing.
I was debating this myself - I've put in a speculative application for when I've built Kaizen so although it won't be at Manchester, there is the very real possibility it will be at Guildford. As Outlaw says, ask John. ;)Quote:
Hypothetical question, if I were to build another robot over the summer & wish to enter it along with my current FW into one of the events towards the end of the year, would I have to enter it as a different team or redo my application for the old one?
Many thanks Michael, just completed form - Manchester and Colchester. See you there hopefully.
Hi all, anyone know if the applications have been announced for Robot Live (Grantham & Stevenage)? I know spectator tickets are on sale. Thanks
I understand that Robots Live! are waiting to hear back from some side events as to wherever they are going or not. Once they've found out, they'll post the sign up form here ;)
Thanks for the update Michael. The robot is now built, had it running at the weekend, slight design fault with the chain drive. Need to add two tensioners/guides. At full rev the chain oscillates and drops off cogs, I was hoping that the short distance would be sufficient without them... oh hum. Easy fix for this weekend.