6th November 2005 - RR Winter Tour Qual 4 - Birmingham

The 4th and final qualifier event for our roboteers to get a place in the grand final, This is going to be one tough event. Teams pushing their bots to the limits to get into the final for the top prize.
Watch the Action, Hear the cheers, Smell the Fear..

6th November 2005
Birmingham
Birmingham Sports Centre
201 Balsall Heath Road
Highgate
Birmingham
B12 9DL
Sunday: Show 1 at 2pm
Sunday: Show 2 at 5pm

Tickets go on Sale Mid September onwards.
Roboteers can sign up now to join the Winter Tour!

Keep your eye on the website for more info.

http://www.roamingrobots.co.ukwww.roamingrobots.co.uk

JOhn

If you want tough, the midlands is where you want to be! (see Macclesfield thread).

not tough rough

Yup...I just got beaten up for a pair of DC trainers...fu**ing chavs...

Turbulence will be there with a working wepon, gyro, and maybe nicads.

8645t may be there (but i wont) depends if Craig can pick it up ;)

** Tickets Update **

Tickets go on sale October 3rd.


Price £9 Adults - £7 Children - £30 Family

Thanks

John
http://www.roamingrobots.co.ukwww.roamingrobots.co.uk

John, If you can have 8645t trailered up and ready for colletion before you go away we will collect and take it to the event.

Ed - Turbine

ok np Ed

John- Ill bring enough tools for 8645T and Turbulence- do you need any specialist equipment or just a 13mm spanner and allen keys?...If you can drop 8645T of at mine the night before or somthing that would be a big help. Thanks:)

Dave - Turbine

hes all imperial

the real world missed Beast somewhere along the way :P

13 = 1/2 ok ;)

but a 16mm ( adjustable does it all lol) spaner does it and a bottle spanner pass on that size

Dave ill text Ed but no problems yet

All should have recieved an email regarding sunday.

See you all there

john
http://www.RoamingRobots.co.ukwww.RoamingRobots.co.uk

Just a notice from me - driving around the M42 alot to go to and from my Uni - the big massive signs where they tell you if theres delays or what not - well all week the signs have been saying theres a BIG event at the NEC from the 4th November till 6th November and the M42 is exspecting LONG delays for most of the day. So you might just want to prepare for it and maybe ad an extra 30 mins onto your travel time.

Mr Stu

Were all set and ready, Storm IIs repaired after Portsmouth and the anti-THz armour is packed in the car :)

Woohoo, Im off to see fireworks !

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

Great event. Some brill fights!

An interesting final table aswel!

Roll on the final.

Yea. Great fun! Thanks alot to team kronic for all there help in getting our flipper working, Even though it ripped itself apart again lol :)

Dave
http://www.teamturbine.comwww.teamturbine.com

Went to the first show. Good to see Terrorhurtz in action, albeit briefly! Did it have any success in the later show?

:)

only against some computer monitors!

Great event, even tho i wasnt feeling well :sad: All of our bots are now through to the finals :) i think well done to Gordon as well, who i think is the first to blow a Sidewinder controller! Only a few weeks to get the robots ready for the final, lets hope Jonno gets the floor fixed after that final fight!

Most of our bot is through to the final after that fight...

some pic´s or vid´s yet ?

Hi Guys,

Just a quick note to say well done to the winners, and thanks for another great round to the tour.

Not long now until the final.

Bits and bobs will be updated this week, including confirmation of the finalists and details for folkestone.

Might be a bit of a delay as I have a full week with my schools. But ill do my best.

John
http://www.RoamingRobots.co.ukwww.RoamingRobots.co.uk

Well..... Pillow was sent to bed without supper for misbehaving but at least she did enough to qualify. Never mind, its all sorted now and were fully fit for Folkestone. Mind you, Geoff narrowly espcaped being put in the doghouse for shoving in a new vantec and thinking everything would be OK (LOL- hysterically)
Had loads of fun though and apologise to Gilbert for not bring my bear behind on this occasion :wink:

Got some pics up at http://www.teammad.co.ukwww.teammad.co.uk - plus the rest of the winter tour.

David, did you film the melee in the first session that Ka-Pow! was in? I missed most of it trying to concentrate on driving. Still ended up stuck on the pit...
Great event- Id forgotten how loud they are indoors- and some excellent fights. Ka-Pow! continues to improve. Now if we can just stop the arm from bending...

John, that armbending is the reason I did think about the Gravity setup.... It works nicely I must admit.

Yep, its a good solution to the problem, although theres still practical issues implementing the tethering/ retarding ropes and it doesnt give a powered retract, which we prefer. In practice the flipper is really too powerful when run flat out at 30 bar- if it got right under an opponant I think it would get them worryingly close to the lighting rig in the RR arena. In practice I expect well do a combination of things; shorten the arm slightly, experiment with ropes or straps and turn down to 15-20 bar or so.