Robots Live! European Championships 2013-7th & 8th September

[blazerbotics]

Robots Live European Championships 2013

September 7th and 8th will see a quantum leap forward in events as Robots Live team up with the Team Storm Academy to bring a European Championship event with a target to raise £20,000 for Children's Charities in the UK.

As part of their charitable work The Robot Wars World Champions Team Storm, will be bringing the funding required for the event and Robots Live will be working with them and the charities, to run the event. Everyone involved in the event is giving time, effort and input at the lowest cost possible but at the same time we want to look after those of you who are the real stars of the show in return for enabling us to raise money for charity.


The important stuff that you need to know

Where is the event Norwich, close to East Coast ports (eg Harwich, Felixstowe and straight up the A14/A11 from Stansted Airport)

When is the event September 7th and 8th 2013

Will there be a prize fund YES !

Will there be trophies YES !

Will this become an annual event We certainly hope so

Will there be assistance for European Teams attending YES ! (Leo will be coordinating our European Entries)

Will we be helping with Accommodation for teams ? YES !

Will there be food provided for the teams ? YES !

Are there some more surprises to reveal.. of course !

We're expecting more entries than we can accommodate at the event with this being open across Europe, so will be announcing when registration goes live in the near future

People have been saying for a long time they want an event where the competitive pressure is on, the rest of the pressure is off now you need to prove you can deliver!

The robots are coming.

[teamstorm]

Just a quick update, having checked in with our European friends it looks like we're going to get quite a turn-out of European Robots for this, at the moment we have 7 interested.... will be great to see a competition event with a range of different robots taking part.

Alan will open sign-up's for the event shortly, we're expecting it to be over subscribed and we're just in the process of working out how to deal with that and seeding.

Ed

[adz600]

Hope to have ceros up and running for this event

[teamstorm]

The more the merrier ! Just been sorting out all the advertising, we've some fun stuff up our sleeves !

[teamstorm]

Update :

- Sign-Up's will open on 31/05/13 - the event WILL be over-subscribed
- Prize fund of over £1000
- We will be providing a Saturday night hotel room for the first 20 teams that sign up
- We will be providing transportation for the European Teams attending
- Seeds and competition format to be announced shortly.

Marketing campaign starts 29th and 30th May (take a look at the flyer below)

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[swanaldo]

Ed thats great news...It will be great to show those Belgians and Germans how to build a robot. Ok ok so i use their rams and drink their potions but still.

[Marien]

It will be great to show those Belgians and Germans how to build a robot.

So you are aware that the Dutch allready know :-)
I think we'll be bringing 6 to 8 Heavies.

[craig_colliass]

Hi Ed
Just to confirm, it is just Heavies and no fights planned for Feathers at the moment so don't bring them, But it might change.

[teamstorm]

Correct Craig - the sign-up form has no option for registering a featherweight. Should that change, we'll let people know - but with the numbers expected and a limited number of fight slots, it looks like it could be a challenge in itself to get through the Heavyweight competition without throwing in featherweight fights also.

[swanaldo]

Will take em on myself...6 to 8 good flips will do the trick.