First off, kudos to you for your perseverance. I don't think anyone's put in as much effort as you getting to events & suffering mishap after mishap, only to keep on instead of quitting. It was great to see all that work starting to pay off somewhat at Cheltenham.

Speaking of highlights, a highlight for me this year was at Burgess Hill when us featherweights got to fight Jibril & Backflip, even though it wasn't quite what you guys were hoping for. If you ever do get a rematch against Earthquake do remind Will that Explosion managed to defeat Jibril quicker than he did.

Regarding attending & travelling to events I'm thinking it's a bit of a double edged sword. On one hand getting to more events helps you learn what you need to improve, but the time & money commitment of going to events cuts into the time & money you have to improve bots. To be honest, if you're prioritizing MW's it might be best to ignore Robots Live since they don't seem interested in MW's anyway (except maybe Grantham since it's much closer). I think you're on the right lines with a 200 mile limit (or 4 hour drive each way) since 8 hours driving plus about 8 hours at the venue would still leave about 8 hours rest in a day. There's also the fact that you can't always account for traffic & problems getting back (see Burgess Hill).

When you say new arena for Botfest, would that be a new design or just a new version of the old one? Also if that new ant is the one you mentioned at the last Botfest I for one am really looking forward to it, as well as what else Team Kaizen has in store in the future.

PS I struggle just to get Parasite into my 107, it's a miracle how you get a MW, FW & equipment into a smart car.