Robo Challenge - 2013 FRA UK Featherweight Championships!

**Eventorizon** · 8th April 2013, 15:08

A second awesome event! Thanks to everyone who made it the spectacular spectacle that it was.

In its first year Binky placed 14th out of 46 robots, which is really impressive. Turns out that in our first 2 qualifiers the disc would not spin due to a low voltage lipo and the HV160 kept cutting out. But when it worked... it worked; Cicatrix, LF3 and Satanix can vouch for that!

Conker II was on the back foot from the off after LS4 mangled the Titanium. The gearboxes were all grindy but that didn't stop us beating Night Fury; though it did feel a little hollow without MMM in the arena. Jamie was apparently shocked when he discovered that the back of Conker was just MDF in our final fight, but with the bent Ti it was only a matter of time before Conker ended up on its back; the bent Ti preventing if from driving the wrong way up.

We know what to do for next year on Binky, should make it easier to hit people with the disc rather than relying on the scoop. Conker II might be for sale and I will be replacing it with C3; but I am already planning to redesign the current concept to include what advice and techniques I have gained this event.

Congrats to Michael and Adrian, a well earned place in history! And well done to Dave for getting 720 into 3rd in its first event and beating the ex-champ.

Thanks again to everyone who helped out with all our little issues, and to everyone else for making the 2013 event one of the best yet!

**SamO** · 8th April 2013, 16:32

Well done everyone for such a great weekend!

Congrats to Michael for winning the championship (it had to happen someday

) and well done to Callum for winning the annihilator.

I'll go into more detail on our build diary, but all in all, it was a fairly successful event for us!

Again, thanks to everyone for making this such a great weekend, and I hope to see you all soon.

**ady** · 8th April 2013, 16:40

Great uploads and great viewing, thanks guys looked an exciting competition,

**RogueTwoRobots** · 8th April 2013, 17:12

Just back in the door after what was another phenomenal championship. Many thanks to James, Grant and all the Robo Challenge team for organising and running the event. Without your efforts we wouldn't have such a great opportunity to crack out the big guns each year and get stuck into some proper robot destruction!

Congratulations to Michael and Adrian for becoming the new featherweight champions with Explosion! Always a consistent performer since its inception so well done for making it all the way. Congrats too to John & Jonno with Beauty 2, proving that there's life in the old bot yet, and to Dave for claiming 3rd spot with 720 in its first champs. Already said it elsewhere but that machine was the robot of the championship for me! And Calum, fantastic job on becoming Annihilator champion; a beautifully made robot and a well deserved win!

Drumroll had mixed fortunes, with strong attacking performances in some battles being out-weighed by repeated electrical and drive-train failures in others. Thanks to Alex and Harry for providing replacement fuses (which I forgot to pack!) and to Shane for helping turn around Drumroll for the losers' meleé and manning my camera.
Carcinus didn't fare too well either, with its lovely new claws being reshaped by LS4, but on the plus side it only ended up in the pit once, during a whiteboard on Sunday

Thanks again to all the roboteers for your company, it's a large part of what makes these events so enjoyable and we're always guaranteed a good laugh

Photos and videos to follow.

**plargen** · 8th April 2013, 17:58

Had great fun and congratulation to the new champ

cant wait till next year got many upgrades planned to improve the reliability issues and aiming to get a lot of driving practice, after scruffys beating by TS3 in a whiteboard i was surprised to find it still worked but i had a good laugh watching it get beaten up

and a big thanks to the event organizers it was a great event

**calumco** · 8th April 2013, 18:48

really great event guys!
after having almost pulled out due to a close friend passing away the weekend before im really glad i got the robot together and im amazed after almost 5 years i've won something!!! can't believe it. thought it'd be nice to paint it my old mates favourite colour orange too in the hope he'd give me a helping hand

congrats to explosion on the win and comiserations to beauty and 720, line up just kept looking stronger and stronger as the weekend went on, honestly had 720 or nst down to take the win thou!

spent most of my spare time constantly repairing my drill drives, so they are next to go i recon and will have a good look at my self righter too and get the weapons on a seperate tx, as my nerves couldn't take all the multi tasking!

roll on next year!

**typhoon_driver** · 8th April 2013, 19:05

Got back to Aberdeen a few hours ago (just over 1000 miles on the trip computer!). I'm absolutely nackered even after a good sleep last night.

Mixed event for me really, boner did well initially before snapping the brushless shaft in it's third fight. With a renewed shaft I'm confident the motor shouldn't have issues from now on and it was doing well in the annihilator until I ended up in the pit (DOH!). Not happy with the drive on boner. Burned out one 24v gimson and the other two now sound very crunchy. Either the gearboxes are no good or the motors aren't. Will need further investigation.

Congrats to all the winners and thanks to all that lent me tools, parts, time and somewhere to sleep.

**blazerbotics** · 8th April 2013, 21:23

Thanks to Mr Lear for letting me drive Beauty 7 (or should that be Beauty 6?

) had good fun, might get a feather done for next year, maybe new G3 or Alpha. Well done to all the RC crew, have fun at Fleet!

**big_nipper** · 8th April 2013, 21:26

Every year the event just gets better. Big thanks to Robochallange for all their hard work and letting us use the workshop to keep LS4 running.

Litter hitter 3 v NST was the best fight we've had for 12 months, wait that last one was NST v LH2 as well

. Next year Sam!

Congrats to Michael for the win, well deserved.

I think Little Flipper is a little worse for wear, maybe another electric attempt next year. Graeme was to patch it up til then.