Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

HI Guys,

Thankyou to the Robochallenge crew for their hard work over the weekend. Sorry i borrowed the arena without asking.. slap wrist... wont do it again !!!

Congratulations to team us ,,, :rofl: Can LJs head get any bigger !! LOL Explosion is one good machine too !!

Rip Evo never lived up to potential after i realised a design flaw... if you mount a massive ram on a piece of polycarb... its not going to flip, its going to bend the bottom downwards instead. doh !! The drive is good, the ti armour is good, and the 3.2mm hardox is very good !! It'll be back with a bit of development and a nice 3mm ti base plate. !!

Wasnt a good event for the spinners i dont think, never lived up again... although 360 is one nasty machine.. i think dave is just unlucky with how it bouces everytime !! Keep on going though !!

John

Thanks to Grant and all involved to make the event go as smoothly as it did. Sorry I couldn't get more involved with the indoor stuff and the robots, there were a lot of our team to organise on the day!!

Well done to all who won, it really was a cracking event to be a part of, I'm sure you'll agree.

(Small note to Grant - have you got any detailed time sheets you could let me have or post here please? - Cheers!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YovpL8gXnSE

Thanks to everybody connected with Robochallenge and Silverline for the weekend.
Congratulations to Michael with Explosion and John Lear,Jonno,John Bell and any body else who might have driven or helped operate Beauty 4.(more pit crew than Ferrari :shock: ).Well done to all of the winners of the 4 classes of Power tool dragracers, i have to admit that i enjoyed it far more than i thought that i would.
Highlights of the weekend; David Westons face trying to get the magnet from 360 off of Satanix. :rofl: The very graphic description from one roboteer of how he managed to get washed with a tea cup. :uhoh: The massive roar of support for Alex when he set a new track record for the modified dragsters of 64.45 seconds. :proud: Thanks guys.
Will we be going again next year?When we got home at 12.30 last night after 7 hours on the road no.When i got home from work tonight unloaded the car and checked the robots over for damage( Stagefright: blown mixer, burnt out batteries victors flapping around.Tiny Toon blown victor cooling fan,wheel hanging off,gouges from Drumroll and Savage Evo. 4 4 Toon paint scratched by Little Hitter. :lol: Yes we will be back, trying to improve on our time.

This event was awesome!

highlights -

- watching 360 throw itself around

- finding out that whilst my reaction times suck, it doesn't matter if you have more grip than anyone on the track

- having hornet 2 killed off by a wooden robot after it mashed up titanium, hardox, ali etc etc. As Jamie said hornet 2 is now retired from competition. I'm going to rebuild it at some point and possibly throw it into whiteboards for fun but I'm now going to focus on my new machine.

- Ladies and gentlemen of the forum, I would like to propose a game of 21......

- Pulling donuts on the field at late o clock and then having John Reid trying to wake me up with a wheelspin when I wasn't in my tent :P

- Watching various parts of dragsters fly all over the place

- Returning home with a new wine glass

Thanks to robochallenge and silverline for such an awesome event. I can't wait for the next one!

That stupid game kept me up all night on Saturday, tried to sleep and all I could hear was your drumming and saying

'Ladies and gentlemen of the drinking circle, I propose a game of 21, Its a good game, its a fast game, its a fast game its a good game..' and then whichever direction it was going and John Lear drunkenly getting it wrong :P

Still looking into whats wrong with my robots controller.

sounds like i missed a good event! Jonno! it would be on my signature but i have 2 many characters! so kane change that please :)

dave we will have a proper 1 on 1 one day! with our link in tight with lots of tape!

my dad also blames his drunkness on a dodgey burger

and im off to leeds so wont see you all til wigan! unless clive wants to pick me up on the way to events :P

LJ phone me can be arranged. :)

Dodgy burger my hairy a**e :lol: :lol: The trouble we had stopping him going clubbing with Ken .

Food was superb best at any event, specially the first sitting of lunch on Sunday, you know who you all are. :rofl: :rofl:

[quote=mr_turbulence] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YovpL8gXnSE

I've got a video of the final - will be a couple of days probably before I get it uploaded.

Also, is anyone missing a hacksaw? Its a Draper one and its almost identical to mine (probably why my dad packed it away). I won't be at any event for a while, so if someone is missing theirs and thinks this is it, I'll arrange to get it posted to you. I'll even give you a new blade with it :)