Just done some mods on Saint so the drive should be a lot more reliable, charged all 4 sets of batteries, just cycling the TX battery. looking forward to this one.
Who Knows with luck we may come second this year :shock:
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Just done some mods on Saint so the drive should be a lot more reliable, charged all 4 sets of batteries, just cycling the TX battery. looking forward to this one.
Who Knows with luck we may come second this year :shock:
Tried putting the postcode into my Garmin and it will not accept it.Has anybody else had this problem?
Had the same with the one for Queensferry :( :(
Works on Google, are sure your not trying it on a new I-Phone? :)
I tried SA1 3ST and it worked for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by cliveb
Fortunately, this isn't a venue that requires a lot of directions at Swansea's end. Quite literally the slip road at M4 J42 and keep going down that road (Fabian way BTW) until you see the LC venue on the left. Need to turn left on the lights.
All else fails, SA1 8QB is an office furniture warehouse on Fabian way. Just don't turn off to that last left and carry on until you see the venue on the left.
Can't imagine why it isn't coming up mind - there's been a leisure centre there since 1979...
probably because Garmin are cr4p
It's mr browns dodgy satnav !!!! Anti welsh !!
The older garmins don't have very complete postcode databases. Try entering the street name instead.
Oystermouth Road. It stops being fabian way at the Tawe bridge. It's straight on one from the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by kane
Anti Welsh Sat Nav? LOL
Turn onto Heol Llan- actually **** that.
[Sat Nav displays NO SIGNAL]
have you changed the country to Wales. The garmin I have wont pick up the 'UK' postcodes in wales unless you specify the country as Wales!!
Was about to say same my garmin u av to change country to Wales 1stQuote:
Originally Posted by widow_twanky
Downloaded the extras package ( extra Ls and Ws ) and all now seems fine.Thanks for the advice. :wink:
Hey guys, cant make this one, a mix of things really but shall be ready for the champs!
Sorry about screwing the numbers up but im sure someone can take my place
More upgrades and work done to Storm II than it's seen in a long time - I'm flying back from Jo'Burg espcially for this one !
Bring it on ! (trademark to Mr D.Gamble acknowledged)
Mute is being stubborn! Rear flipper has stopped working twice now for no apparent reason - but typically it fails open :angry: And somehow we've managed to crush the relay on a battle switch - although the relay still works - which is good!
I get the feeling Mute doesn't want to go to Wales... it doesn't bode well...
You don't need the rear one, it doesn't do anything anyway :)
The tortoises have landed! :proud:
I don't get to say that everyday... :lol:
Just about to set off, so this is a official warning going out to The Pink Puff,The Red Disasters,The Saints have no prayer in chance sinner THAT THE TILLY ALLSTARS ARE GOING TO TAKE ARE TITLE BACK THIS YEAR. SO ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, WE ARE GONNA GET YA.
TILLY ALLSTARS FOR NOW, TILLY ALLSTARS FOR EVER.
Current Scores:
4th - Tilly All-Stars - 36
3rd - Team Barbie - 41
2nd - Mighty Reds - 50
1st - Saints N' Sinners - 56
Just got in had a good drive back 6 hours with a short pit stop.
Thanks to everybody at Robots Live for another enjoyable weekend and well done to The Saints and Sinners on your hard fought win. Sorry for bleeding all over the floor,I did manage to keep it out of the hall and in the corridor and toilet :uhoh: Thanks Ed :)
Till next time and still The Peoples Champions
Team Barbie
Thank-you to you all for visiting this fair city. I hope you enjoyed and weren't too hacked off by anything. Well, asides the rain - can't do anything about that.
Major Thanks to Robots Live! for putting up with a lot of inconvenience behind the scenes to put on these fantastic shows. Also for not choosing Cardiff.
Thanks to Kim Davies & Family for turning up. I finally got to see Panic Attack live. YES!
Apologies to Ed for holding up... everything. I try not to, you know.
Get well soon, Clive. Staff were a bit surprised there wasn't greater injuries considering the event.
Commiserations to anyone who couldn't make it. Particularly Mr Weston who missed a win to go to Germany. Murphy's law.
Thanks all.
What happened? :sQuote:
Get well soon, Clive. Staff were a bit surprised there wasn't greater injuries considering the event.
Nothing too bad, I think. Clive's finger was bleeding - I don't recall the cause.Quote:
Originally Posted by PJ-27
Wouldn't be the team champs without a finger injury, would it?
Thanks all for a great event and to the hard work of Alan and the crew for their tireless efforts in running the event. I'm aware they had more than a few challenges with the venue, but despite that audience numbers looked good and based on the feedback that I got standing at the door people were really impressed and hope that we'll be back again.
Congratulations to Saints and Sinners for winning the competition, it was hard fought with the Mighty Reds coming a close second.
It was great to see Kim there with Panic Attack, I think he was really taken aback at how far things have moved on since he was last running his machine - a testament to everyone involved at the passion, innovation and expertise that lies within the community. In the old days we turned up at Robot Wars, we fought, we lost and we went home. There was no suggestion that you'd get it fixed in 20 mins, re-gassed, recharged and back into the around for a quick mele just for the fun of it. How times change.
Clive's injury was nothing exciting, I believe he dropped his feather Tiny Toon on his finger when loading his van - silly boy. Think he's had a couple of stitches today on his thumb.
I won't be at Maidstone I'm afraid, off to Barcelona with work, however Tim and Meral (and Elissa) will be there with Storm II, and I'll be back to host the UK Champs later this month.
Finally - a quick thanks to Tim for all his efforts with Storm II and managing to keep Storm II running across a weekend, after nursing some nightmare gremlins, it seems that we're starting to see light at the end of the tunnel, and not just the train coming towards us waiting to hit us !
As always many thanks to the robots live crew for all their hard work. I hope the venue's management fears were not realized regarding any damage to the floor.
I didn't expect to be having the crowed chanting Saint, Saint Saint. But the Welsh are a devout lot :proud:
I am surprised to be part of the team that actually won a trophy! though I do not expect anyone to believe Saint made much of a difference.
Saint was quite reliable only the link got broken (I will be blaming Thor for this not that I have any proof :mrgreen:) and Seraph worked very well too.
I hope to see all the robots and crews around for next weeks fun, Clive get better soon. :D
We had a good event all in all. Excellent shows put on by robots live. The mighty reds losing by 1 point to a well deserved winning team the saints and sinners. Hope that finger gets better soon clive.
Thanks to the mighty reds we did good.
Great to see me old pals the mute boys.. Gonna have some fun we are.
Was pleased with Air it went well for its first outing.
Has anyone got a vid of the last 8 way mellee.
Was good to see panic attack after all these years.
Behemoth is looking good.
Tilly was running well too... Keep up the work pete.
Thor had issues but he will get it good soon enough.
Mute looking great too.. Still lovin the 360 self righting.
Storm ran well and as soon as thatweapon is done it will be feared once again.(not by me tho) :)
The teambud nut will return but under a new name available only at robots live events. RR seem to have their own now. Still flattered by using the nut for advertising tho... It must be good :)
Again well done to robots live. Shows done for roboteers by roboteers.
Yes Swanny it can be said you have impressive big nuts LOL :rofl:
I keep meaning to replace the image, I will after maidstone after our first grudge match !!!
Ripper did well throwing robots out until the friendly with Thor and the RoboteQ blew, no idea why but its already on its way to france.
Will be sorted for maidstone for the winter tour to defend the title.
John
www.RoamingRobots.co.uk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBHTai4cRLUQuote:
Originally Posted by swanaldo
Was a great event, thanks to robots live and the all stars :)
Nice to see everyone again been far to long.
Last fight was great fun
Sorry about the floor Alan :wink:
First of all a HUGE thank you to everybody who came, I know it was a long way for everybody! Great to see so many teams at a show so far away. I hope you all enjoyed it and I think the slightly different format of running the fight based competition was the best way to make the event abit different to others but still keeping it entertaining for the audience.
Well done to all my Saints and Sinners team mates for beating the Mighty Reds by one point to take the trophy home (Weston, you're sacked :rofl: ) Will get the full results up at some point.
As always big shout out to the crew, a big thank you to the Nipper guys for helping us out with the arena and captaining the S&S. Thanks to Ceri with helping on the arena, Jackie for her endless cups of tea and help on the merchandise and everybody else who helped out.
The arena modification worked well, kept alot of robots in the arena and made for longer fights but still gave us more than enough OOTAs.
Great to see Panic Attack making an appearance, and the Mute boys are back! (not that the arena floor is too happy about that...)
We had alot of problems in the lead up to the event with the venue management, then we had our website hacked on Friday night meaning very little sleep (Thanks to David for sorting it out), but in the end it all worked out and we even had a sell out show.
Once again, thank you all for coming, I know alot of you got home late. See you all at the UK Champs (make sure you have signed up!). I'm now off to bed...
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Well done to all my Saints and Sinners team mates for beating the Mighty Reds by one point to take the trophy home (Weston, you're sacked :rofl: )
Should of seen that coming :P
Well done boys :)
Was a great event. A good test for the new Evo VIII Behemoth :). Think we have pretty much sorted the self righting now :)
Well done to the fellow team mates of S&S. A very close win :proud:
Was a great moment having the fight with Panic Attack, One robot I always wanted to have drive against and great to meet up with Kim after all these years!
Cheers, Ant
Hi all, great event thanks to Robots Live. Hope your little pinkie gets better soon Clive, hope its not your tickling finger.
Shane after spending the night in the same room I now realise that we share a problem only in your case the problem is much more severe in fact I could almost say with you it could be genetic. Maybe some inbreeding somewhere way back in the family tree and I fully understand why you felt the need to buy me breakfast but your secret is safe with me. As far as the competition is concerned I think after the last fight the mighty reds may have been ahead on points but they didnt deserve to win anyway pulling robots out of just about every session - wimps. :roll: :talker: :lol: