Robots Live! End of Year

Hello Roboteers

Well our first year is over, and we would just like to say a huge thank you to everybody who has supported us whether by competing, crewing or coming along to watch.

Less than a year ago we were just starting to draw up final designs for the arena and contemplating whether to go ahead or not, but from a lot of encouragement and support from roboteers we decided to â‚¬Ëœpush the buttonâ‚¬â„¢. We had a couple of busy (and cold) months over winter building the arena, whilst trying to promote the first event as well. Luckily the arena didnâ‚¬â„¢t suffer too many problems during the build and it was ready on schedule for the beginning of February. The arena has gave a whole new look the live events scene, and enables the audience to see the complete action, in what we feel is the best enviroment.

Whitwick, Leicester, 10th & 11th February

The debut event for the arena, although actually our third event as an event organiser. Everything went smoothly we crowned our first ever champions.

Heavyweight Winner: Big Nipper
Featherweight Winner: Skink

Burgess Hill, 14th & 15th April

This show proved to be the biggest of the year, with over 2â‚¬â„¢500 people attending it had an atmosphere not seen since Robot Wars. The arena saw several upgrades, including the completed lighting rig and arena flipper. We also saw the axes take control in the finals.

Heavyweight Winner: Terrorhurtz
Featherweight Winner: Little Hitter 2

Exeter, 7th & 8th July

Robots Live travelled to the far reaches of Devon for the first show in the West Country. Big Brother proved itâ‚¬â„¢s not yet over the hill!

Heavyweight Winner: Big Brother
Featherweight Winner: Skink

Hemel Hempstead, 1st & 2nd September

Our final show of the year greeted our biggest turnout in robots, with machines from across Europe competing, along with a couple of other special guest robots. Well done to Team Wind Power for taking home the double.

Heavyweight Winner: Pressure
Featherweight Winner: Skink

Now the events for this year are over we can announce the Robots Live Seeds, based on previous results and how they are expected to fair next year;

Heavyweights:

1. Big Nipper
2. Big Brother
3. Terrorhurtz
4. Pressure Mk4
5. Tiberious
6. Behemoth
7. Kronic
8. Iron Awe
9. Turbulence
10. Storm 2

Featherweight:

1. Skink
2. Little Hitter
3. Little Flipper
4. Whirlpool
5. Push â‚¬ËœNâ‚¬â„¢ Shove

Next year, we already have two events and, have just announced our final 3 dates, seeing us travel to some of the biggest venues in the country. The arena will undergo a few upgrades and repairs having contained over a 150 fights. More arena FX are to be added along with a few other â‚¬Ëœitemsâ‚¬â„¢. Our show format will change as well for next year, in the effort to add more variety for the audience and make it more fun for the roboteers. Due to the success of the social at Hemel Hempstead we hope to involve this into more shows over the year. We have a few more projects in the planning as well for next year; they will be announced at a later date.

Next year we will be introducing a league system to cover all of our events for the heavyweights. Although still in the planning, this is just one thing to try and link the events together. There will still be the normal competitions running at each event.

Finally, once again, we wish to thank everyone for their support. A special mention to the crew, without the arena and shows wouldnâ‚¬â„¢t be what they are, quick mentions for; Ed Wallace, Dave Moulds, Dave Lang, John Lang, Andrew â‚¬ËœKennyâ‚¬â„¢ Kenworthy, Dean Butterworth, Marco Roberts, Dave Gamble and Ed & Rick for presenting the shows. Thanks to all the others who helped with getting the arena up/down, promotional work etc.

Many Thanks and Roll on 2008!

Robots Live!

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