all finished and packed ready to go! :proud: not looking forward to 4am start tommorow :uhoh:
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all finished and packed ready to go! :proud: not looking forward to 4am start tommorow :uhoh:
@ connor and calum
thats the fight im most looking forward too
I'll try not to disappoint then!Quote:
Originally Posted by mattsdragons
To help speed things up, just go straight to car park N12, say you're an exhibitor who needs to unload stuff. They'll give you an unloading pass, then head to Gate 1 (it's closer to Hall 9 than Gate 3), unload your stuff at door 9.1, and then park your car. Grant will sort you out with an exhibitor's parking pass so you don't need to pay £8 a day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Leonardomayo
Fights for tomorrow:
Mini Mighty Mouse vs 4 4 Toon
Beauty 3 vs Little Hitter
Explosion vs Venom
Drumroll vs Cobalt
NST vs Ripoff
And the annihilator:
Little Spinner 4
Little Flipper 4
Flow
Inertia XL
Tiny Toon
Satanix
Also something to note, from last years top ten, Explosion is the only robot to get through again this year :)
Anyone been totally destroyed?
GO LITTLE HITTER
Only major damage this time has been to tormenta, NST tore its front end almost completely off.
I think Conker left in bits too, but not much damage really.
Who damaged conker?
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Belt got tangled round the motor pulley after it got shredded on a bit of Wedgie's flipper that I'd bent up. Didn't have any exact replacements so been bodging it with thinner longer belts and had to replace it after each fight so far. Smashed a tooth off the drum in the fight with Galactus so that's away with the Coopers tonight to get re-welded and I should have two or three belts to try out tomorrow.
Gonna be a nervy battle with Cobalt. Only got 6mm poly protecting my ESCs!
Thanks for the updates guys. An interesting comp for sure. Can't wait to see the vids. I'm still gutted I couldn't make it :(
How you finding the brushless jamie?
that was amazing, i cannot belive i won a fight, i cannot belive that ML kept running, i can't bellive it did okay in the whiteboards :D
ta muchly to many people for there help, especialy to Ceri and Dave w for there battery/link help
Just got back from it. Thanks to everyone for being so friendly, we all had a great time! I'm pretty sure we'll be at another event soon. Just as soon as I make another robot.
Home now with Conker. Just want to say thanks to everyone for an amazing event and experience! Already have ideas running through my head on the next version of Conker, though I might change its name back to Shrapnel after NST turned it into just that; thanks sam :lol: I will get the pics and videos we got some time soon. Got a good one of Wedgie in mid-air 8)
Was a great event, came away with a working robot
I must be the only person to go to a full combat event and not take a spinner hit ;)
Was great too see everyone, hope the day went well for you all aswell
Thanks for that Harry!
But I would really like to thank razordave for his excellent advise and willingness to help, Alex marler for lending me his charger and giving advise, team bitza for lending us batteries and helping us fix our bots, the person who's name escapes me who lent me a drill motor and all the other people who helped us :D
Despite all this help we didnt get on well :sad: ,invictus got stuck on the floor in every single fight so it came 37th with 4 points I think. Thanks to whoever said that arena look was completely flat :angry:
Centrifuge had it first fight vs kaizer and ts2 but kaizer didn't work properly, at one point ts2 got stuck so if I had left him I would have won but I decided to hit him with our bar so got him going again then he bent our bar which made the motor break and he bent our armour and then at the end one of our wheels came unscrewed and got stuck against the side of the bot which broke the drill motor and then blew the relay our electronize and we couldn't get a spare motor which fitted so that was the end of centrifuge.
For next time I will get invictus more ground clearance and replace the speed 900 which broke as apart from that it worked well. But I think centrifuge needs a complete rebuild, but that can be arranged.not sure when our next (non spinner) event will be as we don't have a bot at the moment.
Thanks again to everyone who helped us
You're welcome. Good luck finding a flatter arena floor.Quote:
Thanks to whoever said that arena look was completely flat
you mean my robot TS2 not nst btw, i couldnt believe how it perfomed against centrifuge i wasnt expecting that, gutted i shattered my motor bracket.... Twice!
It wasn't flat enough! I turns out you need more than about 1mm ground clearance. Sorry I got its name wrong, I get confused with all these 3 character names (nst,ts2,ls2)
So who won the UK Championships? :)
Still got a day's worth of fighting to go Liam. These are the top ten robots and the fight draw for tomorrow:
Mini Mighty Mouse vs 4 4 Toon
Beauty 3 vs Little Hitter
Explosion vs Venom
Drumroll vs Cobalt
NST vs Ripoff
The brushless has been great. Although with the belts snapping it's not gone through that many impacts, but it's all survived so far so hopefully I can get the drum/belt sorted and get some more damage in :)Quote:
Originally Posted by typhoon_driver
There did not seem to be much damage at the time. NST took off 2 of the wheels and damaged one of the drive motors (bent the motor mount and shattered the magnets) as well as the front and side armour panels. But now I have got it home the damage is more extensive than I thought.Quote:
Originally Posted by MicroGravity100
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The base plate has been shattered from the back left hand corner right to the center of the robot, splitting it in 2, as you can see...
Electronically however it still works perfectly. ESC's are fine, relays, BEC, receiver... even the lipo's escaped unscathed!
I would love to see that fight again, it all happened so quickly that it was over before I could take it all in, so if anyone has a video let me know.
Kenny went quite easy with cobalt's claw as I only had one wheel drive but will still need a good hit with a hammer to bend it back out
and thanks to Katharines driving of bruiser, I now need a new gearbox for my drills as I stripped the gears inside
Congratulations to Dave Weston, 2012 annihilator champion with Satanix! :)
well congrats to Robochallenge
well done to NST and well done to Explosion for a hard fight but comming second 2 years on trot is no mean feat
hard luck to Colbot and cool 3rd for little hitter
Beautys wil be back!!!
so NST is the new UK champ?
If so, well done Sam, a lot of work paying off :)
GO ON SAM!
Really glad a spinner won the title finaly, its been a threat for a few years, and the title couldnt of gone to a more deserving bloke.
NST - 1st place
Explosion - 2nd place
Little hitter - 3rd
Cobalt - 4th
Spinner...flipper...axe...hydraulic crusher... doesnt get more diverse then that!
Thankfully i got beaten by the UK champion, so it wasnt too embaressing... but 540 was pretty lame... back to the drawing board for me :)
Well done to robochallenge lads for putting on a great show, and thanks for all the hard work, and good laughs.
Big well done to Sam for the UK champs 2012 A win very well deserved.
You have spent time, effort and money making and developing over the years a formidable fighting machine.
the lesson to learn is beware the quiet man :uhoh: . well done again. :proud:
and to Dave for the Annihilator win. so glad it all worked out for you this time.
Also explosion for a noble second place and
Little hitter for third, Team big Nipper never too far away from the podium.
And to all the others A great effort hope you enjoyed the experience
Massive well done to Sam, so glad a spinner won it, but a lot of respect to Micheal and Explosion for 2nd and still being in working order when it came out (put link in, worked fine), even if the body work has had it !
I am really impressed with the quality and ingenuity of the newcomers, Guilherme in paticular, long may it continue :)
Stupid question but got any videos?
well done everyone.
dave has a picture of explosion after its last fight.
care to show us dave?
well done to
sam
dave
and
the robo challenge guys greta event finally a spinner survived :P
Explosion after the final:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ve/photo23.jpg
And Satanix after a round with Inertia:
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...ve/photo22.jpg
Congrats to NST for winning the UK Champs and Satanix for winning the annihilator! :)
90 of 'em. Check back tomorrow...Quote:
Originally Posted by mattsdragons
Thanks to everyone at Robo Challenge for a brilliant UK Championships.
There were some excellent fights this year with plenty of destruction and action to keep the crowds entertained!
Very well done to Sam and NST for an fantastic win- good to see a spinner finally make it to the top! Also well done to Michael and Adrian for a well deserved 2nd and to Little Hitter for 3rd.
Not forgetting a very impressive display by Dave and Satanix in the Annihilator another very good win!
There will be a couple of videos uploaded over the next few days but in the mean time here are a few pics of the damage Inertia managed to cause :)
The slice taken out of Explosions Flipper
http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/8ce3668e.jpg
Tiny Toons Scoop
http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/908f802e.jpg
And the back end of Little Flipper
http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/fd937ba4.jpg
Well done to Sam for winning and Michael for second place very well deserved in both cases. Well done Dave for the annihilator, your driving has been improving a lot recently and it showed this weekend.
A very well run event again by RoboChallenge, thanks guys. Its inspired me again to get back into feathers, watch this space.
Kane filmed almost all the fights, think we will get a highlights of the qualifiers and then some of the knockout rounds.
fun event, 1st fight moved slowly for a second or 2 then battery broke (one of the cells managed to unsolder itself). 2nd fight i missed :oops: :oops: :oops: . 3rd fight escs packed up ( :angry: :angry: ), reavenger wasn't working either so to prevent it being the boringest fight of the comp i told kenny he could crush omen 8)
i should mention omen's disc wasn't working for the entire comp, triple checked the wiring and the battleswitch is turning on and off so i think it must be the relay thats knackered.