24th-28th March - ROBOlympics

Hey guys - sorry to pester you - but its time to register for ROBOlympics 2005!

2005 is going to be much bigger and much better than 2004! We want more Europeans, so dont miss the big show!

Im still upholding my offer to waive combat entry fees for all people whod registered for the FRA world Championships. I know that airfare and stuff is expensive, but this is the place to test your metal AND see a lot of really cool robots.

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Hosted at San Francisco State University, this years event is now four days long and each event will have its own building! Thats right - robot combat it its own building - but soccer in another, Robo-One in another building, and so on!

Dont miss this years event! Last year we were covered by everyone from CNN and Wired to Radio Toyota and USA Today.

This is the only competition in the world where all major events come together. And this year weve added more! Build a Tetsujin Iron-Man or play Aibo Soccer - theres now 56 events in all!
http://www.robolympics.net/events.shtmlhttp://www.robolympics.net/events.shtml

If you never comepted before, join BuildersDataBase and sign up for the show - its a pretty quick process (yall should use it in Europe for your tournies...)
http://robolympics.net/registration.shtmlhttp://robolympics.net/registration.shtml

Id realy like to see more Super Heavys - US$3400 is a lot of dough! All cash prizes will be paid on site!

Feel free to email me with questions, and I look forward to seeing you at the big event!

-David Calkins, President
Robotics Society of America
http://www.robolympics.nethttp://www.robolympics.net

We will be there with typhoon 2 and a few new creations :)

Hey Gary,
This is GREAT!!!
We are so glad to see a couple UK teams are going to make it...
Cant wait to see your bots in person and meet your team.
Good luck with travel and shipping!
See you in March

Matt & Wendy Maxham
http://www.TeamPlumbCrazy.comwww.TeamPlumbCrazy.com

Would be great if a few others were to visit as well.

Storm 2, Razer/Warhead etc?

Hey Mike, I agree. I would love to see more of the big name and other awesome bot from the U.K. and Europe come to the states to PLAY...
But I understand the money and time issues!

Alas we can always hope for more bots!!!


Matt & Wendy Maxham
http://www.TeamPlumbCrazy.comwww.TeamPlumbCrazy.com

An appeal: I cant go to the Robolympics in person but Ive entered a photovore (solar powered phototrope) as a run by proxy (I mail it to them and they put it in the arena and run it). Id like to enter the ribbon climb but there may be a bit too much setup to do it by proxy. So if anyone is going and would like to take part in a non combat challenge, please get in touch with me. Ill build the ribbon climber and mail it to SF so all you would need to do is operate it.

Were looking into seeing if we can head over to Robo Olympics at the moment with Storm II.

Not sure if well be able to make it or not at the moment.

Ed
http://www.teamstorm.comhttp://www.teamstorm.com

Ed - this is your chance to revenge Typhoon for the last RobotWars! We finally got to see the finals and thought you had him. Come on - Sewer Snake (aka Angry Asp) would really like the chance to face Storm II.

I have just bought a new digital camcorder and am taking it across to the robolympics so hopefully I will get some good film and if we go up against megabyte, the camera will be rolling! :)

Photos of Typhoon 2 in action:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/tags/robolympics/page4/http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughin...lympics/page4/

I think Typhoon 2 is currently 1-1, winning its first fight but losing to Slam Job by being flipped (see photos).
Typhoon Cadet is also 1-1 losing to VD3.3Hell Fire (my favourite bot) but beat knuckle duster.
I think its double elimination, so theyre both still in with a chance.
I hope Gary got the fights on film!

Typhoon is reported to be doing well which is good, show the U.S. that we are just as good.

As for RoboGames (USOC complained about the Olympics part and dispatched lawyers, might be wise to change this thread to RoboGames like all american forums have) theres already some videos through.

http://www.teamkickme.com/AS%20vs%20Mega.wmvhttp://www.teamkickme.com/AS%20vs%20Mega.wmv (10-12 oz of butane/propane fuel inside AS!)
http://www.teamkickme.com/Buster%20vs%20Tombstone.wmvhttp://www.teamkickme.com/Buster%20vs%20Tombstone.wmv (Humm... Ti sparks)
http://www.teamkickme.com/SS%20vs%20Mega.wmvhttp://www.teamkickme.com/SS%20vs%20Mega.wmv (Robotic air hockey)

Chris - http://www.featherweights.org/forum Im So Evil Im Worshipped By The Devil

i hear that typhoon won the heavyweights

Yes thats what im also picking up on, just didnt want to say it incase I was wrong.

Chris - http://www.featherweights.org/forum

yeah well it lost once to slam job but i hear it beat megabyte somehow

As far as i know, Typhoon lost to Slam Job after it ended up being tiped over and the link/flag came loose. But im not quite sure how it beat Megabyte yet.

Chris - http://www.featherweights.org/forum

Fairies
1st Ugly Duckling
2nd VD
3rd Tonys Wedge

Ants
1st MC Pee Pants
2nd Disk Addiction
3rd VDD-Kit

Beetles
1st Wallop
2nd VDB
3rd Fear Factor Sr. (Please post your email, I have your medal!)

Hobbyweight
1st Ntertainment
2nd VD2
3rd Lil Shocker

Featherweight
1st Killabyte
2nd VD3
3rd Intrusive Interloper

Lightweight
1st Wedge of Doom
2nd New Attitude
3rd Hexy Jr.

Middleweight
1st Nasty Attitude
2nd Max Wedge
3rd Angry Asp

Heavyweight
1st Sewer Snake
2nd Typhoon 2
3rd Megabyte

Superheavyweight
1st Super Megabyte
2nd Shovelhead
3rd Bounty Hunter

hey 2nd place is still a pretty fine effort

Ah, I was wondering how Sewer Snake got beat because it won against Megabyte. But still well done to the Typhoon Team and im sure Gary will have a few words to say when he gets back.

Chris - http://www.featherweights.org/forum

Go Gary :) (and the rest.....)

Interesting result - and a great one for the UK, particularly as the US teams seemed to almost dismiss it in discussion before the event, in posts on the RFL forum they were saying things such as...

people Ignore Typhoon 2 is because overall Megabyte is a better, more up to date robot, and the two robots that always beat it (Sewer Snake and SJ) are entered

....so its good to see Typhoon 2 sitting above Megabyte in the rankings :)

Well done guys, looking forward to seeing all the videos soon ! Hopefully well be able to get over to the US soon to take part in some events over there as well !

Ed
http://www.teamstorm.comhttp://www.teamstorm.com

Typhoon 2 and the whole team represented the UK extremely well. Its too bad they had to forfeit the final fight because the weapon was not working - the shaft was bent so the shell would not spin.

We were really looking for to taking on the reigning UK champ in the finals. Hope some more UK bots can make it out next year - it was an awesome event!

Cheers to Typhoon 2 and the team!

Matt & Wendy Maxham

well guys, still in the states, doing a bit of site seeing! :)

We did lose to SJ however due to it being a dual elimination tournament, we were still able to fight on.

We won all fights, faced SJ again and tore out their back wheels. We then faced megabyte. One spin up by both and we came together. We took a large dent to the weapon ring which stopped the cone from spinning. Megabyte lost all mobility and weapons and hense we won the battle.

As Matt said our central shaft was bent and the weapon was not repairable in the 40 minutes we were given so we decided to forfeit the final.

It was a fantastic event and well done to all involved however I must announce here that this was typhoon 2s last tournament. We are retiring the robot.

And boy have I got some good videos!!! :)

Whatever happened youve done us all proud and proved that were a force to be reckoned with. Enjoy the rest of your stay.
:)

Anybody know how Team Tanto did? I see they were registered with an ant, an R/C sumo and 2 heavies.

Im well impressed that Typhoon 2 beat Megabyte, it really shows the quality of uk bots.

Is there going to be a new Typhoon Gary?

He cant tell you that MILATARY SECRETS you must be like jayne keep forgetting, i am silly women tee hee wow where am i again, what is this. Look i can change my acsent for every show i do??

tanto wasnt there. Craig couldnt make it.

No more heavyweights planned, we are unsure if we will repair typhoon 2 or leave it as is however some of the parts will be taken out and used in feathers, hmmm feathers with 2 x 3hp mags for drive :)

A Tanto Typhoon final would have been very cool (however unlikely) but never mind.
I look forward to seeing team typhoons new feathers.

Videos of Typhoon and Typhoon cadet are currently being hosted by a group I just set-up: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Robogames_videos/files/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Robogames_videos/files/
Download them soon if youre keen as I expect the download limit will be exceded quickly!
Mark

oh, and thanks to Team Think Tank (VD3.3) for filming the video and letting me host it :-)

lol, its already exceeded the limit

Email the video to kane @ kaneaston.co.uk and ill host it for you.

Kane

that was quick!
try:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/robogames_videos2/files/http://groups.yahoo.com/group/robogames_videos2/files/
I think the group gets new bandwidth next month, or in 2 days time, but Im not sure.
Kane, Ewan: did you manage to download the files or was the limit already exceded? I thought the limit was more than 10MB!

it had already been exceeded

Im collecting them together and putting them on the XFM server that serves the FRA Forum and other bits, plenty of space and no bandwidth limitations.

http://www.extremefightingmachines.co.uk/files/typhoon2.wmv>Typhoon 2 vs Towering Inferno. 900Kb, 19 seconds. (C) Team Think Tank
http://www.extremefightingmachines.co.uk/files/typhoonvd3.wmv>Typhoon Cadet vs VD3. 2.2Mb, 45 seconds. (C) Team Think Tank
http://www.extremefightingmachines.co.uk/files/KnucklebusterVsTyphoonCadet.wmv>Typhoon Cadet vs Knucklebuster. 11Mb, 3.01min. (C) Team Cosmos
http://www.extremefightingmachines.co.uk/files/KnuckleBusterVsTyphoonCadet2.wmv>Typhoon Cadet vs Knucklebuster. 11Mb, 3.00min. (C) Robotic Death Company
http://www.extremefightingmachines.co.uk/files/T2vsSJ.wmv>Typhoon 2 vs Slam Job. 15Mb, 2.10min. (C) Robotic Death Company

Ed
http://www.teamstorm.comhttp://www.teamstorm.com

Admin - Updated with additional video 09:18am

The new group says (on the click of one of the video buttons):

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The document you requested is temporarily unavailable because this group has exceeded its download limit. Please try again later.

Oh, thanks Ed, now we can all see Garys military secrets :)

Team Cosmos are now starting to post RoboGames 2005 videos on their site, and one to check out is....

http://www.teamcosmos.com/robogames0...vKnucklebuster

Join me in defending team typhoon
http://www.advancedrobotcombat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=14753#14753http://www.advancedrobotcombat.com/f...?p=14753#14753

Typhoon 2 qualified for the 2005 RFL National with their performance at Robogames! I know they talked about retiring the bot after RG, but maybe you all can talk them into rebuilding for the Nationals. Competition details are available at http://www.botleague.net/2005-nationals-details.asphttp://www.botleague.net/2005-nationals-details.asp

Matt,

Ive forwarded the details onto the rest of the team and we will make a decision soon however I can pretty much guarantee the outcome

Slam Jobs win against Typhoon 2

http://www.roboticdeathcompany.com/j...201.wmvTyphoon

I clearly am a glutton for punishment.

Event will be back at Ft. Mason (where RobotWars started in 1994.) TENTATIVE dates are 3/24/2006 through 3/26/2006, but dont book your flights until I confirm the venue.

http://www.buildersdb.com/eventdetail.asp?eventID=132http://www.buildersdb.com/eventdetail.asp?eventID=132

Great news Dave! We plan to be there!

John Reid
http://www.b-e-t-a.comwww.b-e-t-a.com