Robo Challenge - 2013 FRA UK Featherweight Championships!

**beast** · 7th April 2013, 21:25

Well thanks to all that were involved and well done to robochallenge so very good machines and fights

well done to Michael good win against us (that hurt to say)

Beauty 2 is fully working still so IT will get the Trophy back one day

Dave said to us "I am going to hit Beauty 2 that hard Beauty 8 will feel it " Better luck next year Dave !!!

thanks to Johnno and Alan for great driving

Beauty 2 built in 2007 and back from the dead

**harry hills** · 7th April 2013, 21:57

Very enjoyable event, thanks to robochallange for putting it on, and thanks to all who helped me fix my robot.
Congrats to Michael, well deserved win.
Sorry for taking off so quickly and not saying goodbye to everyone, but we really needed to be off.
Harry.

**beast** · 7th April 2013, 22:23

Beauty2 v 720 semi final

**Revsmin** · 7th April 2013, 23:07

A fantastic 3 days at the GSL, had awesome fun and was surprised at how effective Ricochet was!
Congrats to Michael, it's been far to long and torturing; second twice, can't imagine the feeling! But that doesn't matter now they're the champ, but new Skyfall will give you a run for your title next year!

Also congratulations to:
Jonno & John for a well deserved second, just goes to show how good Beauty 2 is and how good a driver Jonno is.
Mouldy for an explosive third place, the drum'll buff out I'm sure

TS3 for the Annihilator, I though you'd go further in the main comp after what you did to Project X at the open day last year though!
Haz and Massacre and Ellis and Tormenta 2 (or is it 3?) for making it to round 2 for the first time, just gutted I couldn't join you

. There's always next year though!
And finally Lenny (my friend) for driving Ricochet for the first time and still being able to take out the 7th seed and, more importantly, the 1st!!!

5 points in total, missed one fight entirely cos the ESC needed recalibrating

Skyfall.
Swanny, you may think that Ironconkers was a fail, but with a total of 2 points over all, I think only one robot came lower, Cobalt, and it didn't even turn up. That seals the deal. This incarnation of Skyfall is dead. It's wheels were donated to Inertia XL and it's motors to Ricochet. Time to get started on the new one!
Videos uploading now, some will be up tomorrow morning, the rest will take time.

**PJ-27** · 8th April 2013, 08:54

Had an awesome weekend! Thanks to the RoboChallenge guys for hosting and everyone else for some awesome fights.

The Disc exploding, Drumroll ripping the lid off and going in with 360 had to be personal highlights. Didn't get any videos though so looking forward to seeing other people's.

@Kane, when you get a chance do you mind sending me over the Go Pro vids you got and I'll edit them together with 'Bot-Cam'. Also anyone else who got some good external angles and doesn't mind me using your recordings, PM me please. Thanks.

**Eventorizon** · 8th April 2013, 09:16

We have all the fights after Binky was knocked out and some before. Jamie and Ellis also had cameras for most of the last day too.

**Ellis** · 8th April 2013, 10:57

All of the above! Fantastic weekend with way more success than I could have possibly expected. We have to bodge the robot back together for Yeovil and Colchester, somehow, and after that decide if it's worth rebuilding Tormenta 2 or moving on. Several things became even more clear this year, issues-wise, but I'll write about those in the build thread eventually.

I'll do some more specific thanking in the build thread too, once the next two events are through, somehow I don't think we've seen the last of other people's favours! You all know you you are anyway, so thank you very much.

Two major high points off the top of my head are getting Ripoff out of the arena, is that the first OOTA with an electric lifter/weapon? Another is getting full points with NST in the arena, after 720's wrecked us I expected NST would be fatal. Finally going the full 3 minutes with Inertia XL, to the point where the judges decided a rematch was the only way to decide who won, it was too close to call. Proud of that!

Well done to Michael, it was only a matter of time! Very well deserved. Commiserations to the rest in the main comp, though we saw some amazing new competitors, and congratulations TS3 for taking the annihilator win.

See some of you in the next week or two, and to the rest, until next year.

**teamshock** · 8th April 2013, 11:18

Thanks to everyone for a great weekend! Well done to Michael and Adrian for winning with Explosion, John for 2nd with Beauty 2, Dave and 720 and Callum for winning the annihilator with TS3.

Overall we did much better than expected getting 6th with Inertia and 2nd in the annihilator with Heatwave.

Inertia had a terrible start in the first fight breaking off both motor pulleys for the disc and losing the links- we put them back together (thanks to help from Adrian, Dave and Sam) and got it going for the next fights which it won by knockout despite some drive issues which were later put down to a loose gear. We tightened it up and got ready for the finals as we qualified on 9 points. Our first fight with Tormenta was one of my favourite fights and was really close. The rematch was also brilliant and a huge well done to Ellis and co. for getting it back up and running- not an easy job in such a short amount of time! Inertia went on to beat LS4 before being thrown by 720 which bent the scoop which we couldn't straighten properly before the playoff meaning we had little drive and got knocked out.

It all still works and will be back next year good as new

also huge thanks to everyone that helped keep it going and in the competition!