12th/13th April 2008 - Robots Live - The Triangle, Burgess H

What an awesome event. Well done to all the comp winners. Great to see tornado and some other older robots back on the circuit. Kronic performed well (except in our competition semi! :) ) and Weed went well when we ran it with no CO2, not so well with it. Nearly became the first F/W to OOTA ourselves before the round actually started!

Had major problems with our Spektrum DX6i, Kronic even loosing the binding 4 times in one round, and taking 5 mins to bind before that round!

All problems with our robots aside, we had a fantastic weekend and the nephews thought it was great. Thanks to Robots Live for another great weekend.

Just got home we had a great weekend which was worth every one of the 785 mile round trip just to see the smile on Alexs face with his first ever trophy for his 2nd place. Thanks to everbody who helped us get Tiny Toon ready for the final specially Ed Wallace and Ian Thomas for lending the insides of DB5 & Lightwave and all your hard work to the detriment of your own robots.Beers definately owed.
Congratulations to Iron Awe 5 & Little Flipper

Clive/Wendy/Alex

Many thanks to the Robots Live Crew and the other roboteers especially Mr Ian Watts for the test of his famous Watty180 speed controller. A definite first on my must have list.
St Hammer went Ok, but the rigors of combat certainly exposed a few weaknesses with the transmission design. I will have to get that fixed before the next event.
One unexpected bonus it can drive itself out of the pit with only one wheel going!

Thanks for a great event Guys
:)

Thanks to the Robot Live crew for another well run event. We seemed to have intermittent flipper problems all weekend but it held together long enough to win. Great to see Barbaric Response and Tornado fighting again.

Rob
http://www.iron-awe.co.ukwww.iron-awe.co.uk

Another very busy event, I think apart from our fights I only watched two others which were two of Tornados fights, would have been rude not to. Turbulence did ok finishing in 4th after losing to IA5 in the semi again! then to Kronic in the play off.

Dave, btw I never had your charger, but I believe Marco borrow it from you. Dont know anything about it sorry.

Thanks to everyone who made it such a great event again.

well done alex(tiny toon)wish i could have seen you get your 1st trophy really proud of you love jackie team tilly

Thanks for an great weekend, both days were excellent, congrats to the winners,and the buffet
was well appreciated aswell.
my weekend went very well, I didnt win any fights
but was close a few times I had fun with the
arena flipper trying to turn myself over and also made quite a serious hole in the floor outside the arena (kronic ootad me and then ootad turbulence on top of me !!
Also 1st weekend with futaba 2.4ghz wich works
great and watty high amp speed controller cheers ian.
Thanks again and see you all soon.
Terry.

Some pics now online...

http://www.teamkronic.com/gallery2/v/Events/Triangle2008/http://www.teamkronic.com/gallery2/v.../Triangle2008/

Dave

Looking forward to seeing the best bits vid

havent seen that barbaric response in a long time.

Nor me, and they certainly whooped by butt in the semis! Good to see older bots coming back into the fold

(Message edited by Kronic on April 15, 2008)

iron awe had a paint job?

http://www.teamkronic.com/gallery2/v/Events/Triangle2008/DSCN0253.JPG.htmlhttp://www.teamkronic.com/gallery2/v...N0253.JPG.html

Its white knight. I think they bought the old iron awe

Terry, just seen the footage and it was turbulance who OOTAd you. It looked like us cause we flipped turb at exactly the same time as they flipped you. Wait till u see the footage, looks good :)

Event photos, report and best bits online: http://www.robotslive.co.uk/burgess_08.htmhttp://www.robotslive.co.uk/burgess_08.htm

Dave
http://www.robotslive.co.ukwww.robotslive.co.uk

AWESOME best bits! And good camera work - I tried to take pictures of some of the robots during fights, and even recorded a video of the final for my personal use, and it was SO tricky to get the camera right, but you did it with complete ease! :proud: It summed up the event VERY well, showing some the bits I remembered the most, and Im happy to have gone and got signitures on my foam-hand from:
Kronic
Tornado
Storm II (Ed Hoppit signed it for me)
Bigger Brother
Toxic
Whirlpool
Turbulence

By the way, whats the name of the music?

lol nice vid, needs a bloopers vid doing though :)

Iron Awe three was bought by Erik from Team Wind Power, has been painted white and is now called White Knight.
Great event, thanks to Flo for giving Skink its best ever flying lesson!
Nearly got you over the wall again Iron Awe 5, perhaps Pressure will be lucky next time?
Congrats to all winners, Wottys rule!
PS theres a featherweight Wotty on the way.

o cool , they have brought a very good bot

a featherweight wotty, hmm cool

should get Ian to donate one to the winner at UK Champs :P lol

http://www.teamkronic.com/gallery2/v/Events/Triangle2008/DSCN0264.JPG.htmlhttp://www.teamkronic.com/gallery2/v...N0264.JPG.html

Love the crazy eyes Dave :)

Hi All,

First of all thank you to all that attended, and well done to our two champions; Little Flipper and Iron Awe (again!). It was great to see Tornado and Barbaric Response back in action, with them both making an unbelievable return (Tornado 100% record over the weekend, and BR making the grand final).

The upgraded arena flipper showed off its power by launching feathers the length and height of the arena and nearly putting heavyweights OOTA. Also the introduction of our featherweight house robot €˜Battle Axe€™ (yes the name was actually decided on as it was entering the arena!), it still has a few more things to be added but already has shown the featherweights who€™s boss!

Work has started on the DVD, we€™ve had a good laugh at some of your interviews, plenty for the bloopers!

Also we€™ve got a white jacket (with BMW logo on it) that was left behind.

Once again many thanks to all that attended and all the crew for the hard work, and we€™ll see you at the Space Centre!


Robots Live!

http://www.robotslive.co.ukwww.robotslive.co.uk

lol im not photogenic okay..:P

no ur not lol but i still love my mouldy locks

best bits are great,
cheers for getting revenge for me dave,
thats poetic justice that u got turb 4 me !!

They were close to going out at the same time as you went out. That would have looked awesome! Oh well, theres always next time :wink:

The Robots Live DVD of this event are now on sale. At a public price of £9.99 and for the roboteers who attended the event they are just £7.50.

The DVD was lunched at the Space Centre event being displayed on for 10FT screens around the arena & pits. The DVD contains all the competition fights from the event, including many special feature, including backstage at Robots Live, House Robot feature, Out takes and much more!

The DVDs are on sale at the Robots Live Shop: http://www.robotslive.co.uk/shop_rl.htmhttp://www.robotslive.co.uk/shop_rl.htm or for the roboteers who wish to purchase for £7.50 please email us at dvd@robotslive.co.uk

Dave
http://www.robotslive.co.ukwww.robotslive.co.uk