11th-15th 2005 Jan RoDs, Dublin

Robots of Destruction (RoDs) is changing the format of its annual show in Dublin€™s premiere event venue, the Royal Dublin Society, to produce a full competition this coming January.

RoDs, in association with EsatBT€™s Young Scientist exhibition, will be holding the first major combat robot competition ever held in Ireland.

The RoDs arena is a 10.5 m2 €˜class 2€™ arena that is situated in the centre of tiered seating. We have a full lighting and sound rig and extensive pit facilities. Last year we had in excess of 38,000 visitors.

We are looking for 24 heavyweight robots for the contest and eight mechanoids for pre and post battle shows.

Please register your interest by emailing rods2005@diotoir.com by 12th of September and an information pack will be forwarded to you.

Hi Pete

were interested think we can get there and get time off
Ive emailed you

EWE2 is interested and has sent you mail

If you are interested in coming over to Dublin next January, this is your last chance to get involved. To those who have already shown an interest, I will be sending information on Monday next.

Hope to see you for a few pints in Dublin.
Pete

Firstly, I must apologise for not posting for so long. I have spent the past several weeks negotiating with EsatBT and heres what I can tell you.

The contest is definitely going ahead from Thursday 13th of Jan to Saturday 15th of Jan 2005. It will be a live event but may be filmed.
Teams will have no more than two members. I am still negotiating competitor expenses with EsatBT but we will be covering food, accommodation and ferry.
I am also still negotiating the prize monies but the principle has been agreed that there will be a nominal appearance fee and every fight you win will have prize money which will accumulate as you progress.
First round losers will have a second bite in a losers battle.
There will be a fixed fee for mechanoids.
The accommodation for teams who have to travel will be for 2 team members sharing and will be for the night before your first fight until the night of your last fight. Mechanoid teams will be accommodated from Wednesday Night to Saturday Night.
The rules will be fairly standard so no surprises.
There will be a pits area with welding facilities for steel and aluminium and possibly titanium.
CO2 will be available.
Mechanoids will be allocated a frequency band so it will be important to have multiple crystals.

If you are serious about coming over for this great event, the please fill out an application form which can be found at:
http://rods.hostmatrix.orghttp://rods.hostmatrix.org


Finally,
I am open to suggestions for any other robots or related demonstrations that would help enhance the show between fights.

Thanks for your interest,
Pete

Booked up :)

8645t3

http://www.8645t.co.ukwww.8645t.co.uk

So is M2XT, should be a great way to start off next season and I cant wait to try out the new flipper design!

Paul

Sounds great!

Im signed up!

Who ripped that application form from the WC website!!!

Thanks to everyone who has completed an application. We will be sending invitations to all suitable robots very soon. There is very little time left so if you want to be considered, fill out an application form ASAP.

Oh and Kane, the application wasnt directly ripped but does have a surprisingly similar content to, and is probably loosely based on, an application seen elsewhere on the web :P

Thanks again and when I am allowed to tell you more, I will,

Pete

http://rods.hostmatrix.comhttp://rods.hostmatrix.com

Kane,

I cant find your application. Can you tell me when you filled out the form so I can check for it?

Let me know ASAP,

Pete

http://rods.hostmatrix.orghttp://rods.hostmatrix.org

Weve applied, time to test our rewound motors Should be a good laugh. Is Eire duty free?

November 8th at about 1:49.

Pete, you can email me: kane (at) kaneaston (dot) co (dot) uk

Kane

Guys,

We have our application in, and are very keen to come along and play, but with only 6 or 7 weeks remaining, it would be nice to get a confirmation and some more details etc. Appreciate that there is a lot to organise.

Roger
Team Revolution.

might pop over for the weekend, i have a corperate event, ( a team building exercise ) playing robots on the friday.

Anyone need a robot driver ..... willing to negotiate rates :)

Dont fancy being on the other side of the fence.


jonno

Were organising passports when we get a confirm. It takes about three weeks so given that its Xmas hols probably about five to six weeks would be more accurate.
Its starting to look a little tight.

Terry, you dont need passports just ID (driving licence etc.)

Paul

Many thanks Paul

Jonno,

EWE can drive EWE2...EWE know EWE want 2

Ian

:)

Jonno,

You can take Rev3 out for a fight as well. Have just finished machining the new mountings for the disk, and just about to take it up to 5000rpm to see how they hold. I never seem to be able to win a fight when the disk is working - maybe you can do better.

Just have my fingers crossed that this event goes ahead as planned.

Roger.

to Terry Carlin

You dont need a passport to Dublin

been there on plane u dont need one and i lost a drink on that saying you do

John
ps i will be taking one but you dont need one

Pete is there a list of whos going to make sure we are on the list etc

Has anybody heard anything yet? Ive emailed a couple of times, but no response. Were still waiting for the info pack, but the events only a month away......

Simon, Ive not heard a thing and considering Pete said on the 11th Nov We will be sending invitations to all suitable robots very soon I can only assume that we are not suitable.

Paul

Weve had a phone call from them, long chat about what were doing and whats going to be on.

I know Pete said that not everyone who applied would be able to come or something like that at some point. I can only assume that there isnt room for everyone that applied.

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

We got called by Pete as well Paul. I hope hes just taking his time working through the list.

Hi everyone, I am back in action again after a minor motorcycle accident (broken leg).Ive spoken to most of you on the phone by now.If I havent talked to you, its because I didnt get to you before the accident, sorry.If I have talked to you then you should know we are just finalising the ferry logistics before we send out the information packs.If you applied and I havent talked to you yet then contact me as soon as you can as I have had some trouble contacting people.Also we have had a couple of teams pull out at the last minute so there are a couple of vacancies available for last minute applications.

Hope to see you here,

Pete
http://rods.hostmatrix.orghttp://rods.hostmatrix.org
rods2005@diotoir.com

Glad you are OK Pete,

Looking forward to a great event!

Looking forward to it too;

Is anyone else on the Wednesday Holyhead ferry?
I am on the 14.30 crossing.

Roger.

Hi Roger
yeah 2:30 :) see you on the ferry

John
8645t

Were on the same ferry

Terry its your round then ;) do u need any 4qds as spares ?

John

Id check your sailings cos N.Wales is very windy tonight and all day tommorrow.

doh

Talking from Dublin its self haveing a great time atm
guinness is no good with woocester sause
but after 15 pints did not tell
im the 1st to book for next year :)
and theres still 1 day to go

JOHN
friday 14th jan

Only me again just got back :) 3am

ps thanx to all the dublin lads what an event :)

JOHN

Just got back. Well done to Chompalot some excellent driving for a well deserved win.
What a great event, us roboteers were certainly given the red carpet traetment. Good crew, well organised show and screaming crowds. It really just doesnt get any better.
Can we come back next year (pretty please)

A very different format to the one we are all use to, but very entertaining and a really good show. The atmosphere throughout the three days was brilliant, and the evenings out in Dublin were special too.

Well done to the diotor boys......Zulu kept the crowds entertained and the roboteers too......what a man! (mad)

Also well done to Debs and Si for a well deserved win.

It was also quite nice to see Chaos 2 in action for the first time in years. The flipper still ranks among the best available today.

See you all next year.

Ian

To all the roboteers there.

Sorry i didnt get to see you but the queue was 1 and 1/2hours long approx. I didnt have enough time to wait to see you all sorry. See you all next year when ill be compeating

Regards
Ian