Robot Wars Series 3 competition venue......
This was going to be a big robotic competition,120 robots had been selected to take part and
future stars were about to emerge from the ranks.
The building itself resembled a aircraft hanger with arched windows about 60ft of the ground,the layout
as I remember was a large canteen then rows and rows of tables for the robots to sit upon
then a massive sliding door leading into the arena .
Our Robot -Death warmed up- was right in front of the arena door on a shared table with stealth.
8 robots were in each group and we chatted to most of the teams in our group except hypnodisc-
dont know how I missed them.
Progress was slow regarding round one battles and by the start of the afternoon on the second
day we still hadnt been in to do battle.
we amused ourselves by chatting to the other teams and watching the screen when a battle took
place, I remember the young lad about 6 or 7 years old and his dad were due to fight chaos 2
in the first round,the lad kept drawing pictures of his crocodile style robot gobbling up chaos 2
and his dad remarked how he had got a standing ovation during the auditions, I know
thier ic engine let them down and chaos 2 showed little mercy.
Stealth whom we were due to fight were a father and son team and the father kept saying he didnt
mind losing as long as the robot didn't get smashed up-they were to fight hypnodisc after beating our robot.
This was the occasion that Robot Attacks Man made the headlines -I was the only one tech checking my
robot when rex garrods robot went bezerk due to a faulty switch and for a long time thought I was
controlling his robot from beyond the sliding door.