24th-28th March - ROBOlympics

Hey guys - sorry to pester you - but its time to register for ROBOlympics 2005!

2005 is going to be much bigger and much better than 2004! We want more Europeans, so dont miss the big show!

Im still upholding my offer to waive combat entry fees for all people whod registered for the FRA world Championships. I know that airfare and stuff is expensive, but this is the place to test your metal AND see a lot of really cool robots.

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Hosted at San Francisco State University, this years event is now four days long and each event will have its own building! Thats right - robot combat it its own building - but soccer in another, Robo-One in another building, and so on!

Dont miss this years event! Last year we were covered by everyone from CNN and Wired to Radio Toyota and USA Today.

This is the only competition in the world where all major events come together. And this year weve added more! Build a Tetsujin Iron-Man or play Aibo Soccer - theres now 56 events in all!
http://www.robolympics.net/events.shtmlhttp://www.robolympics.net/events.shtml

If you never comepted before, join BuildersDataBase and sign up for the show - its a pretty quick process (yall should use it in Europe for your tournies...)
http://robolympics.net/registration.shtmlhttp://robolympics.net/registration.shtml

Id realy like to see more Super Heavys - US$3400 is a lot of dough! All cash prizes will be paid on site!

Feel free to email me with questions, and I look forward to seeing you at the big event!

-David Calkins, President
Robotics Society of America
http://www.robolympics.nethttp://www.robolympics.net

We will be there with typhoon 2 and a few new creations :)

Hey Gary,
This is GREAT!!!
We are so glad to see a couple UK teams are going to make it...
Cant wait to see your bots in person and meet your team.
Good luck with travel and shipping!
See you in March

Matt & Wendy Maxham
http://www.TeamPlumbCrazy.comwww.TeamPlumbCrazy.com

Would be great if a few others were to visit as well.

Storm 2, Razer/Warhead etc?

Hey Mike, I agree. I would love to see more of the big name and other awesome bot from the U.K. and Europe come to the states to PLAY...
But I understand the money and time issues!

Alas we can always hope for more bots!!!


Matt & Wendy Maxham
http://www.TeamPlumbCrazy.comwww.TeamPlumbCrazy.com

An appeal: I cant go to the Robolympics in person but Ive entered a photovore (solar powered phototrope) as a run by proxy (I mail it to them and they put it in the arena and run it). Id like to enter the ribbon climb but there may be a bit too much setup to do it by proxy. So if anyone is going and would like to take part in a non combat challenge, please get in touch with me. Ill build the ribbon climber and mail it to SF so all you would need to do is operate it.

Were looking into seeing if we can head over to Robo Olympics at the moment with Storm II.

Not sure if well be able to make it or not at the moment.

Ed
http://www.teamstorm.comhttp://www.teamstorm.com

Ed - this is your chance to revenge Typhoon for the last RobotWars! We finally got to see the finals and thought you had him. Come on - Sewer Snake (aka Angry Asp) would really like the chance to face Storm II.

I have just bought a new digital camcorder and am taking it across to the robolympics so hopefully I will get some good film and if we go up against megabyte, the camera will be rolling! :)

Photos of Typhoon 2 in action:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/tags/robolympics/page4/http://www.flickr.com/photos/laughin...lympics/page4/

I think Typhoon 2 is currently 1-1, winning its first fight but losing to Slam Job by being flipped (see photos).
Typhoon Cadet is also 1-1 losing to VD3.3Hell Fire (my favourite bot) but beat knuckle duster.
I think its double elimination, so theyre both still in with a chance.
I hope Gary got the fights on film!