Roaming Robots, Welsh Robot Champ's May 1-3 2004

[dragonmaster_1]

Exellent event, I even got to take on Tornado and Behemoth with my Featherweight Dragon 2 and it came out in one piece thanks for being gentle on me guys.

Great event, really enjoyed the weekend.

Congratulations to the Mute boys, ive emailed you the vid of the final....you were so nearly in the pit.

Well get you next time

Ian & Scott

great event, shame about all the controversy at the end, but ah well.

Nice event for Alpha to retire on, winning its final event before the new one is built (if i get time to do it!).

Merlin blowing yet another set of batteries, doh! Although was interesting hacking apart the hawker.

Great fun at the fair! What was the red pedel for on the go-karts

[robjones]

Yes things were a little fraught after nearly 18 hours of competition!!
The misunderstanding was probably caused by our judge not correctly identifying various silver coloured featherweight robots competing in 6-way melees. Luckily Jonno had an unofficial but ultimately face-saving record of the correct results.
I think the organisation of the feathers competition could have been better. I was too busy with other tasks to get involved and didnt get told the competition was happening (it all looked a bit friendly to me with teams not wanting to go against Vortex etc) so I instructed our own judge to try and get the finalists otherwise wed have noone to present prizes to. In the end I was slightly disappointed to see some good feathers not able to compete in the final, one only half working and the ultimate winner apparently dead on the cease call
Nevertheless its shouldnt be taken seriously by anyone - its meant to be a bit of fun after all!

But maybe next time, a plan of action to how you wanted the event to end on would have been helpful. Not to dwel on it, as all was fine in the end just about, but Terri and i were given the task to organise fights for the last session, and we was trying to please some roboteers who needed to get HOME and some roboteers who had JUST taken part in the final fight in the last show and needed more time to charge batteries. Terri and I got a lot of slack for trying to please everyone and doing our best, so Terri deserves a well done at least.
Also some people (not even me) didnt know what was a friendly fight, or a REAL fight to win the trophy some bots did less fights than others but still got in the final and all sorts.

All is well now and finally went ok in the end. We all live and learn, but over all, the weekend is one to remember as a good event, and next year im sure will be even better.

Mr Stu

[robjones]

Yes Stu I think youre right, it needed a proper plan from me. Its all a steep learning curve!

Hi has enybody got eny pics of dragon 2 in the arena with Behemoth or Tornado

The winner loved their prize

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[teamchip]

They say in the ad they are selling as it is too small for them.

Someone buy it for £30 or something re aution it for another event for another kid to love it and frame it at least. Im sorry but if i was that age and won that T-Shirt, i would have it in a frame and full time guards around it and all sorts :P

Now a signed autograph from Ewe 2 just goes in a draw

Mr Stu