21st & 22nd July 2007 - Fighting Robots European Champio

2007 Fighting Robots European Championships
Hosted by ROBO CHALLENGE LTD.
Sponsored by PRIORY CASTOR & ENGINEERING

Robo Challenge are pleased to announce the 2007 European Championships for both Featherweight and Raptor class. On the 21st/22nd July the largest ever featherweight event will be taking place, and with up to 40 featherweights and 15 raptors, this will not be an event to miss out on!

The full combat competition is being held in the Robo Challenge Grade 2 arena, meaning all robots conforming to the FRA build regulations will be allowed.

Over the 2 days of combat, there will be 6 shows, consisting mainly of competition fights with 2 white boards in each session. Each robot entered into the main competition will have a minimum of 3 fights each to get a fair chance of progressing to the next round. Further details on the exact competition format will be published at a later date. Each competition fight will be judged by three independent judges to try and obtain the fairest decisions.

The first 12 non-UK entries will be given £75 to help with travel expenses. This will be given out per FRA membership. I.e. if 6 robots are fighting under 1 FRA membership only £75 will be given.

An entry fee of £5 per FRA membership is required to secure your place. This will enter 1 robot per team. Each extra robot entered under the same FRA membership will be a further £2. This Entry fund will go directly to the prize money and secure your entry into the championship. To up the stakes there will be a large prize fund - a minimum of £500!!!

The competition will be held in the Birmingham area with sign-ups and details on the venue to be published shortly.

Good Luck

Robo Challenge Crew

Fantastic, sounds ideal for hornet 2 :)

Count me up for it. Should be a gdun :)

strike that, re-read the post and it answered my question

(Message edited by jamesb on March 17, 2007)

Is that Raptor class - GRA style?

Where are the build rules for a Raptor ?

http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/discus/messages/13/2068.html?1166387227http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/disc...tml?1166387227

Have a quick read Simon.

6kg bots, but are they 12 or 24 volts, and are there restrictions on the motors, materials etc ?
Its unclear on the thread.

GRA rules: http://forum.roboteers.org/filebase_entry.php?entryid=6&sid=bde1c69a8dcd05e99 2fce368d1b70d3ahttp://forum.roboteers.org/filebase_...9a8dcd05e992fc e368d1b70d3a

Cheers Marien. Are these the rules for this event or are they FRA feathers but smaller ?

Marien, the motor descriptions are all Dutch to me (poor joke) are cordless drill motors ok ?

Simon ...You could have found the link on the thread reference I gave.

Posted on Friday, November 24, 2006 - 8:46 am:
By dirk kasten

Si,
Max robot weight is 6kg,
Max robot volume is 1m cubed

motor restrictions are bacially drill/ hobby motor no greater than 64 length by 42 diameter (mm)

Weapon/Drive motors and batteries cant exceed 12V
All onboard electronics cant exceed 24V

Other than that, FRA standard.

(Message edited by Psychostorm on March 17, 2007)

(Message edited by Psychostorm on March 17, 2007)

The GRA forum site was hacked so now a provisional site is put up in its place.

The GRA raptor rules can also be found on:

http://www.computerclub.nl/forms/raptor_rules_englisch_v2.0_pdf.pdfhttp://www.computerclub.nl/forms/rap...h_v2.0_pdf.pdf

Hi guys

We have recived lots of interest so far thank you. Just to confirm that we will be useing the current Raptor rules. If there are any changes to these we will let you know straight away. One change is to rule 5.1.1 We will be allowing the 2.4ghz radios aswell.

The website is currently being worked on to accommodate for the event sign ups and tickets. We shall let you know as soon as its ready.

Il keep you posted!

ill be there with 3 robots hopefully
matt

excellent, hopefully sign ups we be avalible within the next week or so. we will keep you posted.... oh and there will be an extra addition to the top prize :)

We are pleased to announce sign ups to the European Championships will be open this sunday at 12pm on http://www.RoboChallenge.co.ukwww.RoboChallenge.co.uk

More info about the venue and show times will be online sunday aswell.

Also in addition to the prize money, Astroflight have kindly sponsored a top spec 112DC Charger!

With lots of interest from teams all over europe its looking to be a promising turn-out so make sure you get signed up quickly as there are limited spaces. More info coming soon.

regards

Robo Challenge Crew

Sign ups are now on!

Signed up! :)

Echo Jamie :)

Only been open less than 3 hours and already more than 1/4 full in both weight classes.

Looks like we will be seeing some new faces too, 4 robots from Finland have already signed-up to see how us Brits really do things:proud:

Any feathers from Finland?? I am very tempted to start on a Raptor too :)

Yeah, there will be one finnish featherweight and other three are Raptors.

Sadly I cannot come myself since I´m in the army at the moment, but maybe next year.. I already have some evil plans and whole year time to battletest em.. ;)

OK, Ive now entered an as-of-yet non existent Raptor. Time to start buying bits!

Hehe, glad to hear Im not the only one to enter an as-of-yet non-existent robot. Got all the bits and as soon as I move back home from uni, its all going together :)

As it happens the dates co-incide with the wedding of two German roboteeers. So I dont expect a lot of German roboteers for this event unfortunatly.

I have signed up for this, 3 feathers, 1 raptor.

Thats a shame. Sign ups are still going well guys. looking forward to seeing you all here. Dont forget that additional robots entered will need a separate designated driver. This helps the championship run smoother for everybody and also stops the possiblity of haveing to pull one robot out due to haveing to battle yourself in a competition fight. Whiteboards are fine with the same driver on multipule bots though.

Im umming and arring which robot to enter out of Predator and Captain Scarlet... Predator would look great but i think captain scarlet would have a better chance?

Are the fights one-on-one? We have 2 drivers and 3 feathers.


(Message edited by leorcc on May 21, 2007)

Each round is different to try and get the best of all competition formats.

Starts with a league of 3 way melees. then knockout 1 on 1s with a losers melee, semi is a 3 way with the final 1 on 1. It maybe be altered slightly but that is the basic format. is it possible to bring a third driver leo?

No, Mario cant get that time off and if Rick comes along it would probably be 3 drivers 4 feathers. :)

Then get a random volunteer driver to wreck your machine for you on the day :)

Hmm so tempted to come. Ill think about it :)

I will def be there. Just had hornet running around on its wheels for the first time and whilst I think the wheels will be changing before the competition it is exceptionally controllable and going to be very interesting to watch with a disc going at full tilt on the front :)

ye looking forward to seeing it gary. make sure you sign up soon to represent Scotland alistair!

I really want to go , problem is dont have a robot yet and what i do have are random pile of pieces. And i just noticed i might be able to enter with a Raptor .... hmmm Ideas :)
Oh and i am guessing that spinning weapons are allowed ?

Yes :)

does anyone have apostcode for the venue?

have searched on the interent but want to be sure, of the right postcode:)

alex

hi alex the postcode for the venue is WS11 2AL