24th-25th September - BattleBots 2005

Registration for Battlebots 2005 is now open at http://www.battlebots.com/http://www.battlebots.com/ the event is being sponsored by corporates and is being called Battlebots R3.

DOUBLE ELIMINATION:
The R3 Tournament will be a double elimination contest.

STATS AND RANKINGS:
The R3 Tournament is an Official BattleBots Tournament. All match data will be used in future and historic ranking calculations.

PLAYER AGREEMENT:
Entrants will be required to sign a BattleBots Player Agreement. However, the R3 Player Agreement will give entrants a choice to either grant BattleBots, Inc. exclusive or nonexclusive merchandising rights. Please note that granting exclusive rights to BattleBots, inc. does not preclude you from entering other robot combat tournaments. Exclusive BattleBots may enter third party events so long as they do not grant any rights assigned to BattleBots, Inc. to that third party or any other third party.

Signed Player Agreements are to be sent with Registration Fees to the BattleBots office at 1024 Nimitz Ave, Building 140 - Mare Island, Vallejo, CA 94592 (Note: All registration details and directions are posted when you register online).

COMMUNICATION:
Any questions regarding event registration for the R3 event should be sent to R3register@battlebots.com.

FURTHER INFORMATION:
All other event details are posted (or will be posted) at:
http://www.battlebots.com/rochester2005.phphttp://www.battlebots.com/rochester2005.php

Nothing to do with me I hasten to add, but I thought it looked worth adding to the calendar !

Should also add, well be dragging Storm II over if we can !

Ed
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What isnt clear from the R3 site (until you read the small print on the BB site) is that they are only accepting middleweights, heavies and super-heavies. No light(feather)weights :sad:

Thats not strictly true Karoline, they are accepting Featherweights (30lbers in the US) but for a different part of the competition.

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

If you take a feather over I would take it to the 30lb mark. We learnt at the robogames that the 1.6kg is a big disadvantage!

But anyways, best of luck Ed! I am sure you will show the americans just what a good british robot can do!

2 questions I cant find answers to:

1. Can Jenny and I really get away with competing in the IQ part of the competition with the college/uni students?

2. Is the US sufficiently prepared for the Pillow Torque Girls? :proud:

Mind you - kids are back at school by then so it looks v. unlikely

lookin to go with a smaller Tanto called Tantaless in the 50KG bracket

craig you got room in your hand luggage for shane :-) :-)

Ed , are you still going ? I´m interested in going too . Already subsribed , only waiting if they accept a FRA/DRG rules built full pressurebot .

Has anyone been to this event? Anyone know if it was a success?

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