Team Death - New Heavyweight

[team death]

Damage report this week, Yes we finally got to our first event with the MEAN MACHINE
and what a roller coaster experience it was down at Grantham.
I had been putting in a bit of a night shift through the week to try to get the Robot
ready but there were still a few tasks to do down at the Grantham event.
Adam had brought a new set of batteries with him but the lead ends were different
to the ones we had on the Robot so the first job was for Adam to solder new bullet
connectors on and that was fairly straight forward and after a bit of a re-wire on
the weapon by a Froggy team member.
I turned my attention to the fail safe on the weapon-I set the failsafe in the transmitter
which looked good on the relay and Adam called a crew member for a tech check.
unfortunatley the fail safe failed to activate on the drive and then weapon fired and
blew a fuse-failed tech check 1.
Adam thought the error was in my transmitter after I had altered the settings so we
tried Adams spare Flysky.
After a second tech check all seemed good apart from the blown fuse so we decided
to use the Bot as a ram bot for the first fight as time was now short.
Adam had had a look at white board and we were in the competition proper up agaisnt
Robot Wars series 8 winner Apollo and Earthquake by team shock.
Adam and I decided that I would drive first and made a large circle bashing into
the other Robots in the pre fight display.
I talked to Adam about holding the centre ground so I Headed straight for the middle
of the Arena-I think Apollo had all ready flipped Earthquake by then so Apollo headed
my way, the most memorable part for me was when I drove up the the flipper of
Apollo and got a mighty flip before I could drive off the deep end.
The flip must have lifted the Bot five feet in the air but the Robot kept going-
we didnt quite last three minutes-more like one and half and we were eventually
immobilised by a protective rear flap pushing against the wheel.
We got the Robot fight ready for the mele at the end and met series 10 RW
winners in there-Eruption amongst other great flippers.
Here's a list of the Damage..........

Rear tyre flap protector ripped off
polycarbonate side panel broken off
Rc receiver batteries ripped out
Large chunk of foam ripped out of Tyre
Other tyre badly split
Front shovel bent upwards
weights bar ripped from bodywork
Chest expander springs ripped off
Winch webbing and hook torn from winch
Chain for reducer sprocket has come off.

I have yet to check the Esc (The Cytron) and the batteries but I hope to try it out
next week.