I wish I could come... just a shame I dont have a robot atm :)
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I wish I could come... just a shame I dont have a robot atm :)
Due to the accom problems, what about seeing if the centre would allow roboteers to sleep in the hall? it would save people either having to stay miles away or paying out a fortune. As its a leisure centre it will have showers, and will have big crash mats for beds (although people can probably bring airbeds/camps beds). We dont mind ruffing it for a night. It might be worth looking at as a back up option.
Well, theres always my place if you really get stuck, but its 45-50 minutes drive away and I dont know if Id get permission to let you stay. (no harm in asking though)
Camping might also be worth looking at, but again its a similar distance away. (the only sites I know of anyway - a quick search on Yell didnt turn anything good up). There is a Travelodge-type place near me as well (just off the motorway in fact), but Id imagine the prices are steep.
Still working on the robot. If we get it fixed in time we will do the same as Bristol. Bring the Van and stay on the car park :)
Well prob be camping. Any one els doing same? If so any one know of any sites?
ok teams, all sorted...
Email on its way
Jonno
Does anyone have the postcode for the venue?
Thanks
NE1 7XY
its on the RR website
Thanks
Behemoth will be attending this one!
wahoo, thats 3 robots going then :P
im going :D with robot
quotewahoo, thats 3 robots going then :P/quote
Actually, its about 6 (theres some on the webpage). 7 including Storm II. And quite a few feathers, too.
I wonder if Firestorm know about this event...
it was a joke!
Im suprised firestorm arent coming actually, there local event!
jonno is it ok if my mum drops me off then goes home and picks me back up on sunday?
Firestorm said they would wish to come but are on holiday.
Mr Stu
Could Behemoth and Storm 2 please sign up on the web site then.
Mr Stu
Roaming Robots Crew
Any info on the camp site? (Where it is ect)
When did anyone say Storm II was coming ?????
It was just an observation Ive made at the last two events - youre there helping to run the show, and Storm II is there as well. (therefore Im beginning to think that Storm II always turns up, even if its not on the list)
What web site?
Kane
http://www.roamingrobots.co.uk/events_newcastle2004.htmhttp://www.roamingrobots.co.uk/events_newcastle2004.htm
All info on our new website.
Jonno
http://www.roamingrobots.co.ukwww.roamingrobots.co.uk
Did you let Stu do the website then?
I wish Kane.
Mr Stu
Well at least it is useable now!
1000x better than before!
Nah, you can tell Stus, they all use the same template :wink:
Youre not meant to say that Steve :-p
Have we got a final list of whos coming yet? (and are we still short on numbers?)
final list is...
Heavyweights
Ripper
Merlin
Big Nipper
Mute
Pussy Cat
Behemoth
Leveller 2
Scorpion X
Gman
Feathers
Foxy Boxy
Dizzy Tilly
Pushability
Alpha
G3
Kenny
Vortex
The little nipper feather brigade !!
And a few suprises.
Enough to do a show.
Just leaving now :)
Jonno
Not bringing any little nippers with us this time :)
just finished KENNY tonight at 10pm and all i got to say i was very tierd because of the build quality lol looks Cr*p at the back but ok at the front
picture on profile :)
thanks
kenny
right everything packed and ready to go now i gotta get my mum out of bed :)
thanks
kenny
Good luck, Kennys looking mean and ready to do some serious flipping. :proud:
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Once again, another great show. Despite the limited lineup, we still got some great battles (particularly the opening and closing fights of each show) and some upsets, too (the greatest of which was Merlins hard-fought victory over Mute at the start of the 3rd show). Throw in some organised carnage (Vortex ripping up sacrificial bots) and an on-going competition between the two sides of the hall (ie. each side supports a robot and the winner got a point) and you have a fine result. I even got to drive again (Leveller vs. Scar was given to the public) and actually won this time, although Scar did break down partway through. And a great six-way fight between Mute, Merlin, Behemoth, Big Nipper, Pussycat and Ripper to finish things off with. Nice.
Thanks to everyone who organised and competed in the event, hope to see you up here again sometime.
just got back.
very fun event and i thought it gave a good performance i liked it when i flipped the rc car and it hit the roof a couple of times :)
i liked the torch at the campsite lol he should of gone to the toliet instead of peeing outside his tent :)
report in a couples of days
thanks
kenny
Super event!
The small number of robots didnt cause much of a problem. Some great fights (cant think of one that was dull). Can we take that rock wall to other events aswell please??
Write up, pics and vids will be up some time this week on http://www.teammad.co.ukwww.teammad.co.uk
for some reason i havent gone to bed and wrote the report up so here you go
http://www.teamkenny.tkwww.teamkenny.tk
thanks
kenny
Attended the Newcastle Sunday 1st August 12.00 show and a great day had by all. Our personal opinions (mine and my children) were that this event, although small scale, less grandeous and without big name presenters, was actually better than the Offical Robot Wars Live TeleWest Arena event of 2001 (at least I think it was 2001).
Because it was closer to the audience it seemed more real. The battles were battles and although a couple may have been calmed down to prevent damage (ie Pussycats blade didnt appear to be spinning) they were far less staged than TeleWest. Sparks flew, the pit stopped working, the flipper blade fell off but it was great.
KEEP IT UP!
The children would like a personal appearance at their school. How much?
All the best.
Jim
Great event. Great battles and loads of smoke.
In the first show flipper was running great flipping well with the compressers running really well when all of a sudden smoke started pouring out of the robot. I made a fool of myself shouting Im on fire, Im on fire then someone joined in Fire, fire, fire!!!!! It turned out the drive pack had broken the link accross the bottom of the pack. Nothing to do with me so I am sending them back. Luckally no unfixable damage. Replaced the two blown drive motors and that was it. The problem was then I had to run without the compressers and hence no flipper so i was a sitting duck. 2nd fight kenny flipped me and that was it I could do nothing. 3rd fight was much better. Pushing a few things about before alpha rammed me at full speed into the side of the arena beaching me on the flipper pannel and knocking out my receiver battery.
In the 3rd show kenny smoked when its led shorted out. Very impressive for the crowd but worrying for the roboteers luckally no major damage for him.
Great event all in all with in My opinion the proformance of the show being mute in the very veyr first fight. From practically the middle of the arena it flipped merlin against the screens about halfway up them! Very impressive.
Note to jonno: Can we have mute as a featherweight house robot so the arena flipper and it can play ping pong with feathers?
Regards
Ian
Was a good event.
Sorry if i looked down in gloom, was quite ill to be honest felt like i wanted to pass out a few times. But was a great event, with everyone on their tip toes. Wasgreat event.
Jim Clark - Contact Jonno@roamingrobots.co.uk mate about the school thing. hehe.
As for Pussycats blade, it was off due to a number of reasons. Main one being, even theor Pussycats blade maybe out of date a bit, it still has the potential to do some vital damage which is what we dont really want at some fun events like that. But was soo cool to see Mute flip her about. Great show!
Mr Stu
great event, probably one of the best. The small amount of robots actaully made it better as we managed to get in the arena when we wanted to.
Robots ran well all weekend, Alpha didnt loose a fight and the vantec perfomed well. Merlin won 3 out of 4 fights.
Highlights of weekend;
G3 and Kenny beating up Behemoth (nearly had him over)
Stu being Gaffad to a chair then locked in arena!
Listening to the keep fit club on the sunday morning!
See you at Stoke, hopefully new alpha will be done (although i keep saying that and it never is!). Weve just stripped Merlin so we can start on the new one.