Yeah, that's probably for the best. Don't want to get one wrecked and not have a replacement!

Just been watching footage from the shows, HardWired actually stood up to more than I thought, but I definitely need more weight and traction for next time. It's quite clear that the announcer wasn't a fan of my robot though, mentioning weak armour and that it'll easily get mangled (?) and staying out of the way of the fight when I'd lodged myself under Binky and DB10, a little bit disappointed by that in hindsight, but it's no big deal.
The HardWired II I'll be entering next year will be a lot more powerful on the drive so that should be better. If I can add more weight, shock absorbing and a bit more control, I think I'll be able to do a lot more. Tempted to go for magnets too, but there's plenty of downsides to their use in my machine.

Other than that, I'm doing a brand new robot, HardWired III which I'll attempt to build on my own there-abouts to try and home my skills so I'll be able to fix up robots instead of asking for help from others. As brilliant and helpful as everyone was, I can't be doing that every five minutes, it's not fair! This new one will be essentially a 2WD Rango. I'll use the already established design of HardWired II and work from there on it, it'll have some dimension changes to suit a spinner, but the design works well so I don't want to stray from it too much. I want to keep HWII as my indestructible, reliable brick with HWIII being more of an experimental, more damaging machine. Initially the idea was to fit HWII with a disc but after a few chats, it'd involve quite a lot of messing about and it'd mean heavy changes to the chassis to fit the disc in, so why not start again from scratch and keep both running!

Both will enter into the 2015 champs if I can find another driver. Should be very interesting indeed!

Would just like to thank everyone involved again for such a fantastic event, and to Mario for helping create such a tough little machine!