Robots Live! -22nd July 2012- Royal Armouries Muesum, Leeds

A new venue for us, we'll be attending the Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds for their robot weekend (this will be our 2nd event of the weekend as were at Manchester on the Saturday!). This will be a similar setup to the NMF event with the 8x8m arena, running 3x 45minute shows through the day. These will be more for display rather than competition (no OOTA's for heavies). We have a limited amout of space for teams, if your interested, please sign up (when available) and we'll get in touch.

Venue

Royal Armouries Museum
Armouries Drive
Leeds
LS10 1LT
http://www.royalarmouries.org/visit-us/leeds

Show Times: 12pm, 1.30pm & 3pm

Its quite far for me to travel but I might have to go to this one.

We`ll be there!

Sign Ups Open! http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form ... 03bNebf7br

Ill be taking Flow, The old Flow not the new one im building.

ok we won`t be there after all!
Trouble booking off work so we're only doing Manchester the day before now.

We have signed up to this event and the two larger ones later in the year :)

We should be able to attend the event in Manchester if you are looking for people to come as well as it is quite local for us.

Ill be there with Ripper on Low pressure for demo events if you want it.

Ill be in leeds anyway :proud:

let me know.

Your both welcome to come Leeds, you'll have to turn them down abit (like they were at Aylesbury) as its a Med-size arena and we cant flip out (they're abit paranoid about their floor, won't tell them we made a mess of the last venues floor!).

I think we're OK for Manchester, the chance are we won't have lot of space and have enough heavies at the moment, but will keep you in mind if anything changes.

Hi alan, can I nip over to Manchester with k9.

Hi Alan I think I signed up with Saint and a walker and some feathers.

Yes you did Craig. No problem with K9 at Manchester.

would be rude not to pop down as its only downstairs from my mates penthouse flat i'm staying in at the moment lol

Penthouse? Guess were all coming back to yours!

Ha well its not the penthouse but its the top floor of this block with a nice big balcony, so its our penthouse :) and chris moyles as a neighbour...

Is this heavyweight orientated or are feathers welcomed? Might be able to have the new conker minus the disc working in time.

Hi Alan
I have provisionally booked the Saturday night at the holiday inn next to the museum where are you staying that night as we may be able to meet up.

Craig

We're stopping at the Holiday Inn next door to the venue, if anybody fancies getting up for a 6am setup you're more than welcome :wink: If you book before the end of the month its about £70 (that includes breakfast).

The event is a different style to the normal larger shows. Each show (3 of) will be about 45minutes, which will probably be;

HW
FW
HW
Boxers
HW

It will probably be 2 or 3 in each of the heavyweight fights, depending on how many robots we have. Heavyweights will have to play nice as there will be no flipping out of the arena due to the venue being worried about their floor, so the big flippers will have to turn them down abit.

got bits to fix toxic, just got to try and find the time now would like to come for the day out,
not sure how to turn the pressure down though, i could only use 1 burkert or maybe i could
promise only to use cold bottles and not heat em up eh alan :wink: :lol:

One burkert should be fine, its the same size arena as Edinburgh.

well i couldn't throw you out with 2 valves there anyway :!:

are you going out saterday night for a beer ? etc , if not i might drive up in the morning.
was it holiday inn ls10 1le it will only give me an average cost of £70.31p strange do they
take the money of the card when they decide how much the room is :shock:

Don't know what were doing Saturday night, depends what time and how tired we are when we get from Manchester. You know you want to come up the Saturday and get up nice and early to help setup :lame:

The 'average' cost confused me aswel!

Thanks Alan the booking @ the holiday inn is now confirmed. going to sort out the robots today ready for the event.

An email going out wednesday for this event, sorry for the lateness of it but i've got another meeting with them tomorrow so can get a few things finalised. If you haven't signed up yet please make sure you do, although i won't accept anymore featherweight only teams, just heavyweights (heavyweight teams are welcome to bring their feathers).

HWs signed up

Toon Raider
Ripper
Double Action
Eruption
Saint
Mighty Mouse
Big Nipper
Melrin
UFO
Kronic

I know theres others that have said they are coming but have yet to sign up. Big flippers note; there is no flipping out of the arena (featherweights can) so please restrict them where possible.

On another note, anybody willing to get there early and help with the setup would be much appreciated, we have 2 events in 2 days and have to start setting up at 6am on Sunday, so we may not all be with it! :roll:

And Toxic2
Sorry I forgot can u send me email aswell Alan.

good old Melrin I havn't seen it for years :lol:

Sorry to ask this Alan, I'm still waiting on my E-mail as well.

and me

thats because it hasn't gone out yet... :uhoh:

bloody post office

Many thanks to Alan and all the Robots Live crew for a great day.
I did like the event. I hope they will have us back again soon.

The robots worked quite well and I am looking forward to the next event.
I have some work to do on Saint as the drive caused a few problems.
And Seraph stopped for some reason, but Gabriel worked very well, I'm quite pleased with that one. :mrgreen:

Hello all

Just a thank you to all those that came on Sunday, glad you enjoyed it. Its been a very long week, with 3 events, and the 6am start on Sunday didn't help matters! Thank you to the Lales and Terry for your help with the arena (and Jackie's endless supply of Tea), its much appreciated. Also a major thanks to the Big Nipper team for all your help over the last week, although i might have to find someone else to drive UFO and ODO as im struggling to beat them! :proud:

All the guests and staff loved the show so hoepfully we'll be back next year! We've now got a couple of months off until Swansea (annoucements for that coming soon!) so plenty of time for upgrades and new builds!

Thanks to Robots Live for running the event last week. In some aspects these smaller events are much more relaxed, it's nice to have a chill at the events sometimes. :) It was also nice to see that it was popular with the crowds, would be nice to come back again next year (especially since it's quite close)!

Videos of our three fights are on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCsm-M4ya6s