Robo Challenge - 2013 FRA UK Featherweight Championships!

**cliveb** · 8th April 2013, 22:28

Thanks to James, Grant and all at Robo Challenge for a superb 3 days. Really enjoyed the Champs again this year. Congratulations to Michael and Adrian on making it third time lucky,you really deserve the title, Learo and Jonno on second and Mouldy for third place with the non smoking 720.

Team Toon managed to come home with 3 trashed bots,all of which at one time or another had smoking issues in one form or another. Tiny Toon proudly took on the spinner boys until Galactus shorted out the battery pack. But be warned, just like 4 4 Toon after 720 and Boner had nibbled it, put the link in tonight and she powered up and drove. Tiny Toon is alive and will be at Colchester next Sunday. So sorry Inertia,Boner,720,Galactus,LS4,Drumroll 2,Boner again,LS4 again,NST and Galactus again, your not good enough yet and she will be there again next year.

Team Toon

**Eventorizon** · 9th April 2013, 11:16

Originally Posted by cliveb

So sorry Inertia,Boner,720,Galactus,LS4,Drumroll 2,Boner again,LS4 again,NST and Galactus again, your not good enough yet and she will be there again next year.

When we get the armour fixed on Binky we will have a shot at breaking Tiny Toon! [Though not until next year i'm afraid]

One surprise though. It wasn't 720 that snapped the welds, it was landing after LF3 tossed us through the air for the second time! Who would have thought!

**sam_smith** · 8th April 2013, 21:48

What an awesome event!! Many thanks to all the Robo-challenge team who put this event on for us. Once again I felt the champs atmosphere was the best of any event I've ever been to.

I thought the standard of robots and battles was incredible and it was good to see so many new teams developing new machines.

Mark, the battle between LH3 and NST was epic, really like the new sleek design of LH3 btw. I suspect one of these days NST or shard is going to get a real kicking from one of your machines!

Congrats to everyone who made the podium. Long awaited win for Explosion.
Was well impressed with 720 winning that 9 way melee.

Was very pleased with how NST ran, it delivered the reliability i've come to expect from it and all the reliability upgrades worked well for it this year so its still in fighting form. It seems my driving was the weak link at times.

A big thanks to Grant for controlling the weapon so well in NST and taking the control to a another level this year (directing the robot in flight where possible to keep in the arena). Thanks also to those who helped me out in the pits, Calum, Alan and Dave of particular note.

Didn't manage to get any videos this year but am very much looking forward to seeing videos of the battles which certain dependable teams provide for us

**Mouldy** · 8th April 2013, 21:50

That was well good fun!

Well done to the Explosion lads for there first place!... and beauty, good driving from jonno... and some crafty rule bending by learo as normal to get second (haha) - only robot to beat 720 so far- ill have to come up with something to get you next year!

Had a great week at gadgetshow, good banter with John lear and guntherm in the pits, and some real impressive battles this year.... that fight with 720 against tiny toon was one of the best battles ive ever had from a drivers point of view.... although im kinda glad us spinner lads are finnaly getting the reliability there to take out the hardox box's!

Was pretty pleased with 720, i only took it all apart a few times because i was being picky about things... i could of just charged the lipo, and had it working in 5 mins between each fight and it would of worked just as well... pretty maintenance free. worked better then expected... although Sam helped point out one area that could be improved upon during the 720/NST fight- ive already started designing the new hybrid brushless motor that will be going in for next year.... its also the first time ive used a brushless setup without a single bit of smoke until the end- which only happened due to shorting within the robot which eventually took out the 100a fuse.

360 was a bit of a flop, first time ive tested it on 6s, seems the scorpion didnt like it and kept cutting out- so ill get that replaced for some botbitz esc's for next year.

Good to see some new faces with new robots with weapons too- very impressed with "no toy" and "scruffy".

Thanks to the Coopers for organising it all.. hopefully next year will be just as good!

Think someone with good video skills should do a montage now... cant beat a good montage lol

**blazerbotics** · 8th April 2013, 21:56

"We aren't allowed to swap drivers mid way through a championship, so why should we be allowed to swap robots under the same name? "

Because there's a rule saying you can't swap drivers, there is no rule governing how much of your robot your allowed to swap between fights. The EOs and Kane had no issue with it, else we wouldn't have done it.

**webby** · 8th April 2013, 22:41

Onece again, as said above, thanks to Robo challenge for hosting an awsome event!
I had an awsome time, especially when hit by ls4!
A rebuild has begun and i look forward to next year!

**razerdave** · 9th April 2013, 07:34

I had a discussion with Learo about this, because to me, what he entered under Beauty 7 was almost a different robot.
To me, there are 5 key parts to a robot: Chassis, drive, electronics, batteries, weapon system. 3 out of those 5 were swapped out before round 2 started (drive went from Gimson to 900's, electronics went from scorpion to Vantec, chassis replaced). To my mind, that is not the same robot that was in before.

Anyway..
Thanks to the Coopers for putting on a great event as usual, and big congratulations to Micheal and Calum for their wins and to Jonno/Learo and Mouldy for their respectful finishes.

720 was the robot of the champs for me, you definitely addressed the engagement issues you had before! Best exit I've ever had, thanks Mouldy and Alex (Binky)!