12/13th July 2008 - Roaming Robots - Royal International Air

Would love Beauty Kody. Luke wouldnt let me buy it though cos its pink.

Was a very good event I thought. I am dissapointed for DTK, it was awaesome for most of the event. Its one thing losing but your link falling out in the UK championsip finals? That just sucks!! That said, well done to Iron Awe 5.

Was a bit dissapointed with Hydra and just unfortunate the way it landed cos the ram pulled itself out and the flipper bent. Although we were almost not competing because of the weight. Spot on 100kg after taking off EVERYTHING i was allowed to take off. Swan did fall for the foot under the scales trick (lost 6kg that time:proud:).

Andy

id sell it but dno if my dad would as so much time has gone into it and i dont think we can make a better flipper - im hoping to move into the axe class but its all money which ill need for car insurance lol :sad:

soo anyone stuck any fights on youtube yet :)

just got home, had a good evening at the campsite, just wish to say congratulations to Iron Awe. thourghly enjoyed the fight, no excues the key should have been fitted better. Loved every minute of it, Jonno fantastic event.

Although my dad said we were going to retire, Dantomkia is going to stay and come back from what it now knows even stronger, look forward to the ret of this year and to see you all next year.

I still want that rematch Iron Awe.
I know you had a play afterwards with my dad driving, hes not as good as me, which was very obvious.

look forward to seeing you again.

well done iron awe 5 and well done dtk and i did better than last year

It was -despite all the bad luck with the horrible weather- a terrific event. I mean, the atmosphere was there, that sizzling tickling buzzing were-gonna-get-there-till-the-Finals good old days feeling that I am so fond of in this sport. As well as the were-gonna-get-this-car-thru-tmuck feeling that I now cherish LOL.:rofl: Jason, YOU DA MAN, DA CON-KEER-OR of DA MUCK !
Id say that this was a technically good championships, with not too many robots having technical problems (only 2 fights had to be postponed).
Well done to a robot that combined good engineering with good driving, although a self-removing-link is a nice thing to have in an opponent...:proud:
And well done to the crew of Roaming Robots, whom not even torrential rains could keep from trying to keep that arena up. (It stayed up.) And who are not to be downed by such trivial matters as the biggest airshow in Europe cancelling on the spot.

And oh man, that follow-the-leader game between the Spitfire and the Typhoon... ahhh, that was just icing on the cake. Plucky Spit.

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sarah go and give your dad a big kiss cos he deserves it. i am very very proud of him.

that typhoon and spitfire was just one of the best things i have seen. its one of those things i will probably never see again. lucky i got it on vid tho it is wobbly.

Swanny, can you place that one on youtube? I would love to see that again. That and the F22 Raptor flying on Friday made my trip worth while on its own. The champs where a great bonus. :)

Big thanks to Jonno and the crew for a really good day yesterday. When we turned up on Friday in the pouring rain and heard that the airshow had been cancelled I was expecting that wed all be heading straight home again. Well done to Dantomkia for a really good performance, greatly improved on last year although obviously unlucky in the final to loose the link. My plan of tieing a piece of string between their link and my robot obviously worked :wink:

Rob

P.S. Sarah, happy to have a grudge match whenever you want just name the time and place!!

its only about 15 seconds of it cos when they started to fly round my jaw dropped and i stood in awe then realising i had my vid camera i rushed to get it just in time for about 20 seconds before they split and landed. i will try and get in onto my pc when i get home from work. never done vids to pc before either. mabee someone else vidded it.