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If anyone is after a hotel room, I have one going spare - all paid for.
Holiday Inn Solihull, 1 junction from the event (3.4 miles away)
Full details here - https://secure.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d...sl?secure=true
Nice hotel, pool etc, yours on Friday and Saturday night for just £49 a night !
PM if interested
Grant/James
Do we get tickets for the Gadget Show Live Show this year. If not is their anyway we can purchase some?
as far as im aware we get passes that allow us to wander throughout the entire show and see it all free of charge. Not gonna keep up locked up in the arena when we're not needed :P
It's the extra theater show i'm on about, we got V.I.P tickets last year but as their is so many of us this year we would be very lucky if we all got one! Hopefully we can though, was really good!
http://fwd.channel5.com/gadget-show/vid ... eatre-show
again grant mentioned that one to me. Something about trying to squeeze in. Basically bat your eye lids and flirt your way through ;)
This is more of a question for the EO's, but is the event going to run as Team Invade detailed in an earlier post?
And is the Only bring your Robot if your competing on the day rule going to apply for the Sunday?
We were hoping to stay the whole weekend and WhiteBoard on the Sunday, but firstly it seems unlikely we'll qualify, and secondly if we did then we would be too pre-occupied with the competition as I would imagine the other robots would be....
Thanks!
Hi P.J, Due to the Pit Area being smaller than usual, we have to limit the number of robots per day to 20 in total for safety reasons. This is why we have extended the event by an extra day to accomodate this.
This doea mean that you are allocated a Pit space for the days that you are competing and your pit tables are re-allocated for another robot on the next day.
This needs to stay the case unless there is a large amount of Pit space spare in the first 2 days.
We do however plan to run plenty of whiteboard on your day of competition, and also choose 6 competitors that have been knocked out of the competition for the annihilator to fight on Sunday.
You are more than welcome to come for all 3 days to the show, but due to Pit space unless competing then only the robots allocated for that day is allowed in the Pit Area.
Regarding the Live Theatre shows, I believe there are 3 shows each day - if you que up before the show there are a certain amount of tickets for sale on a first come first serve basis. I do recomend trying to go in and see it! You should even see James Nick and I on the big screen LOL.
Cheers Grant, sounds fair enough.
What about the running of the competition, is it as Team Invade detailed?
Well, going off the champs in 2009, it goes roughly like this:
To start we have 3 qualifier round with three robots in each, from these qualifiers we gain points for the following
4 points for a knockout win
3 points for win by judges decision
2 points for 2nd place
1 point for 3rd place (but the robot must have entered the arena)
0 points for not entering the arena
The qualifier rounds are decided by the pre-event draw
Top ten scores from the qualifiers go through to the knockout rounds, which goes:
5 1v1 fights
5 way losers melee, 1 robot goes through
3 1v1 fights
3 way losers melee, 1 robot goes through
2 1v1 semifinals
3rd place play off
Final
Well just got a reply from flightpower. Lipos haven't even been sent out yet so they won't arrive for the event. I gave century uk a call and they said they should be able to get me some lipos in time for the event. Seem quite decent and helpful at century. So hopefully I'll have them Thursday. Should have the drum itself complete tonight. I'll get pics uploaded if I do
Glad i didn't order any by the sounds of it! Grant do we need car passes to get through the security gates for loading, im guessing were coming in through gate 3 to get to 11.1?