Robot Wars: March 16/17th - Mountbatten Centre - Portsmouth

[robotwars]

Hi Guys,

Well once again we’ve raised the bar of our Robot Wars show keeping us at the top !!!!
During the Saturday evening show I'll be honest, i had a warm feeling when i watched the start of the show in the audience, as we have now officially gone from Roboteers putting on a show with our robots, to a proper professional show which i consider to be on par with any touring theatre show ! Such a great feeling to be where I always dreamed we could be, and of course with the new brand is just unreal.

A big thank you to all the roboteers who joined us, including the Dutch, Belgium, and German roboteers who we will see some of you in Guildford, and of course our awesome crew who had to work under pressure due to the fan belt snapping on the truck and arriving late !

Mark and Chris have settled down now in their new roles as co-presenters, and they will get better and better throughout the year !!

3 nearly sold out shows, and 3 fantastic spectacle shows !

On the whole our new format tweaks were very well perceived by both audience and roboteers from feed back we have had, our things like the pit camera interviews, and tag team competitions really gave the audience the feeling that they were involved in the show !!
Removing some of the wires has had the desired effect and has brought back some more oota’s, the audience do like to see the ootas !!

Congratulations to Eruption, a tribute to all the hard work over the years, and you got to take home one of our brand new fantastic Robot Wars trophies !! Now that’s what you call a trophy !!!
It was a funny final, I haven’t watched it yet, but the top 4 robots of the event were all on form and it could have gone any way !! Great to see Behemoth self righting again

Work has already begun on Colchester, only 4 weeks to go…. with a few tweaks to the new current format, addition of a flame jet on the arena floor ( watch out its been coming for a while ) and you never know.. a few more house robots might be able to join us as work has begun on the mission to find them !!!

John
Robot wars

P.s we can organise more grudge matches if you like Jeroenl :-)

[beast]

I want a 1 on 1 with TAN its cost me loads of money

[Jeroenl]

I want a 1 on 1 with TAN its cost me loads of money

Yeah Tan hates cartwheels! He is the main reason i have switched to HPDE once..

P.s we can organise more grudge matches if you like Jeroenl :-)

It would take you for ever to get MD back on its feet!

[craig_colliass]

I want a 1 on 1 with TAN its cost me loads of money

John don't do it It will only cost you more money. you can't beat TAN,
Saint will fight it for you we won't beat it either but it can't hurt us

[leorcc]

I want a 1 on 1 with TAN its cost me loads of money

Yeah Tan hates cartwheels!

TAN loves kart wheels, they are nice and crunchy.

This was a very nice event indeed. I loved the pace of the show. Not much downtime for the audience to get bored with. The tag team stuff was rather confusing for me, but I guess that is something I'll have to get used to.

Sorry we had to leave so early in the last show, we had a ferry to catch so we missed the finals. Congrats to Eruption, very good performance throughout the days. Ant and Kane's footage on the flip on Bullfrog I want to see online, the airtime on that was massive.

[robotwars]

Good to see you Leo,

Yes it got a bit confusing when we tried to fit the tag team in, making Ripper and Maelstrom fight together at the end as team captains, and link that to the event grand final !!

We have the solution to make it simpler for Colchester !! Its a learning curve but worked a treat, the audience loved being involved in the show !!

John
Robot Wars

[Jeroenl]

I think it is a good idea to make the tag team fights longer!

[robotwars]

As in increase from 3 mins to 5 mins ?

[Jeroenl]

Most fights don 't even reach 3 minute's ?
For example :


2.50? I understand that if a fight gets boring its a good thing to count down.. But in this tag team


2.20 ?

Non tag team but still very short?

2.10 minute's

Intro fight :

2.20

[robotwars]

Its something for us to think about.

We used to have 3 minute automated fight music, but we are currently redoing it all. We will be back to automation by Colchester with the new music.

John
Robot Wars.