Yeovil Robot Bash August 14/15th

I am holding a Robot bash again this year at the Yeovil Festival of Transport on the 14th and 15th of August.
We are planning to use a Big Top tent this year to house the arena and audience seating to make it an all weather event.
The arena will again be a 40 feet square heavy plywood floor on a purpose built base, and fully enclosed to restrain the over-enthusiastic roboteers from flipping things too far.

We provide pits, power, and CO2 gas plus help and encouragement to budding robot builders.

All roboteers are invited and we will run fights for all weights.

As in previous events we will have periods between fights when the robots are made secure and safe in the pits and the audience invited in to see and discuss them, buy merchandise and let the fans worship their heroes and collect autographs.

We also provide free tent or caravan pitches, for participating roboteers, from the Thursday through Sunday nights so bring your family as well as your robot, for a free long weekend holiday.

The Yeovil Festival of Transport is a big event for all sorts of old and modern vehicles from bicycles to jet powered tractor pulling and has a great after hours atmosphere for all competitors with on site food, booze and entertainment, including the best cider in the world.

Nearby are the Concorde Museum, Bristol shopping Arcades, Cheddar Gorge, Clarks Shopping Village and several excellent beaches to keep your family entertained while you play robots.

Yeovil is just off the A303 which connects to the M3 at Basingstoke, just 2 hours from central London.

Id like to come to this one, quite near to us.
Put down Micro-Maul (featherweight)
Cheers, Ewan

Roger, will there be any screening to allow feather spinners...... :) and would the arena be up to the job of containing Storm II as would be good to come down and have a chance to run it !

Thanks

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

Might be also interested, depending on arena spec.

Jonno
www.roamingrobots.co.uk

Roger - youre clearly busy in the LED thread, but I dont suppose you could enlighten Jonno and myself as to the arena youll be providing ?

Thanks :)

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

The arena is still in the planning stage but is planned as 40 ft square 40 mm thick plywood on a solid base.
It will have side walls using railway sleepers starting below floor level.
Above those will be 60 cm high heavy planking, both layers fixed to the flooring solid base.
I am hoping for polycarb walls as well but these are not confirmed.
If no polycarb then I will use 8 ft high Harris steel mesh fencing, the same as is used around building sites. This will be set back 2 metres from the arena edge the same as the last 3 years.
I will post further info as soon as I get it.

With an arena like that running todays robots, Id make the crowd stand a good 20m back...
Cheers, Ewan

I shall decide which robots are safe to run at the time.

My Robot Bash at the Yeovil Festival of Transport is run using common sense and a lifetime€™s experience of industrial Health and Safety measures.
The YFT management and my insurers have faith in my ability to do that.

I am fully insured to run a radio controlled robot fighting event.

If you want to have a good weekend here bring along your robot and family, enjoy the social event andthe great after show entertainment provided by the wide variety of other exhibitors or join in with them.

Excellent food for all and booze are available on site.

I shall run robot fights safely within the capabilities of the arena as I see fit at the time.
If you dont think you or your robot can operate safely then stay away so you dont spoil the fun for the rest of us.
The rules are basically the standard RW set with some minor changes to suit the event and its facilities.

If you want to come along, then please email the details of your robot, team and what you camping pitches you require to me at rp@bigc.moycom.co.uk. NO picture files please, I may request those later.

I shall email the rules, and further details as they become available to roboteers who register their interest in my show.

I do not have the time to answer every query posted here.

Roger Plant 9-02-04

Well be there as usual.


Dominic

http://www.ukrobotics.comhttp://www.ukrobotics.com

Kronic would love to attend. Its very close to where were based. Stick us down if you would.
Cheers,

Dave

A couple of name changes for the Yeovil event.
It will now be known as the Yeovil Festival, and my robot event will be known as Robots-at-War, with a website of http://www.robots-at-war.co.ukwww.robots-at-war.co.uk

Robots entered so far are,
WBC, Bigger Brother, Kronic, Cobra, St Agro, Crustation, Constrictor, and feather weight Micro-Maul.
Possibly Tornado as well.

Roger, are you bringing Wheely Big Cheese down cos i havnt seen it for years

Chears

Carl

Can P.I.M.P.anought and Pimp 2 come to this one, sounds fun.

Joe Townsend

WBC will be there of course.

if we have our middleweight robot built in time, ill inform you if its comming but i should be able to attend with our lightweight Son Of Penetrator.

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Carl
http://www.freewebs.com/carls-robot-pagewww.freewebs.com/carls-robot-page

Unfortunately Kronic will not be able to attend this event due to a double booking. Sorry

Dave

the Cereal Box Killer *WILL* be attending to this event :)

were not sure about S.O.P but it might come

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Carl - Team Penetrator
http://www.freewebs.com/carls-robot-pagewww.freewebs.com/carls-robot-page

Ill most likely be bringing my 3 ants to this, who else will have ants with them and has anyone got an ant arena theyre bringing?

Thisll be my first 2-day event, so Im looking forward to it :)

Scott
http://www.teamultimatum.tkwww.teamultimatum.tk

What are your thoughts on this event date being double booked? Roaming robots are doing an event, on the same days, quite nearby (reasonably) to this event, so which of these do you thick will be better?

We committed to this ages ago Ewan. it was a good do last time we were there

St.Agro

Website is now up:

http://www.robots-at-war.co.ukhttp://www.robots-at-war.co.uk

or http://www.ukrobotics.co.uk/robotsatwarhttp://www.ukrobotics.co.uk/robotsatwar if you want to view the site without the ads.


Dom

http://www.ukrobotics.comhttp://www.ukrobotics.com

Nice site Dom. I like the link cover rules.

Thanks Terry, I am glad somebody likes the idea, I have received mostly negative comments so far about my new link rules.

Just looked at the site ..what do you mean by link cover rules Terry?

Roger: Can you expand on what the complaints have been?

Tom

3.1.1 i) All robots must be fitted with on-off switches/or removable links that operate both radio receiver and drive/weapon circuits - in practice totally removing all power from the robot.

ii) If there is more than one isolating device, these must be positioned adjacent to one another.

iii) The main power cutoff MUST be a removable link (See Technical Sheet No. 4.) which must NOT be in place unless the robot is in the arena or under the supervision of a technician. A key or switch is not allowed.

iv) The link must be positioned in a visible part of the robot€™s bodywork, fitted away from any operating weaponry or drive, and this position must be clearly marked.

v) The link may be fitted under a cover, but the cover and link must be able to be removed by a simple pull action.
A rope or cord loop must be fitted to the outside of the link cover. Pulling on this loop must cleanly remove the cover and link.
The cover, if fitted, must be painted red and contrast well with the surrounding bodywork panels.

Tom they want to be able to snag the link assembly with something like a long boat hook and yank it out...

A sensible idea for this sort of event... in my opinion.

Cheers Woody I see now.

Tom

Woody, that is exactly the idea of this link rule, to allow remote removal of the link in an emergency without going too near to a belligerent robot.

If you want to enter your robot at this years Robots-at-War and it is not possible to modify the link in time then contact me.

Were a double sided double flipper so there are not many options for link/cover placment. The back of the robot is the only sesable place where its going to be able to be pulled whicheverway up we are. The thought of aproaching our bot to pull the link if its misbeheaving scares me to death. As there is the chance that it could choose that moment to flip itself back into me. Being able to disable from the distance of a long pole I think is a much better idea.

Great event, nice arena with a few great battles between big bro and hellbent.

Good job guys

Oh... and my one day build robot fubar was fun to drive :proud: (keep what that means to yourself :proud:)

Nicly organised event, really good arena and great social. Well be back next year.

Thanks to Roger for making this happen and to everyone who took part for making it such a great time (and a great breakfast too). It was good to see that we drew solid crowds (second only to the tractor pulling)every time we fought - a good indication that the public (at least the public that goes to a festival of transport) is not losing interest in robots.

Thanks for the compliments guys, lets hope we can get more roboteers to next years event on the 13/14th August.
I am hoping to get some pictures up on our website http://www.robots-at-war.co.ukwww.robots-at-war.co.uk soon.