Featherweights.org 2 Day Xmas Event 13th/14th Dec

**kane** · 21st October 2003, 21:46

Following the success of the two recent featherweight events (Inspire in Norwich and the Featherweights.org Featherweight Smash in Redditch) weve teamed up to bring you the next big featherweight event.

December 13th and 14th in Norwich will be the closing featherweight event of this season. With a purpose built feather arena, complete with purpose built hazards. Youre all invited to take part in what will be the biggest featherweight event yet with cash prizes and Technobots vouchers being given away like never before.

Registration will soon be open on the Featherweights.org website as before, and whilst space isnt limitied at the moment anyone wanting to come would be well advised not to hang around.

There will be a main knockout competition and plenty of sideshow competitions to keep everyone busy... and prizes for as many categories as we can think of.... The award for being on the recieving end of the hit of the day ????

Anyway.... we all just wanted to let everyone know that the event is going ahead, and well post on here as soon as registration opens on the featherweights.org website !

Take care

Ed H, Ed M, Jas H and Mr Stu
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**storm** · 24th October 2003, 10:04

Seeing as weve got a shiny new forum - I thought Id post an update here to let people how things are going - and how registration for the event is going.

To date weve had 16 registrations I believe - thats more than enough for a good featherweight competition, and certainly enough to justify more people registering !

The arena has been checked out - it will be the same as last time, however weve got some arena hazards to keep you all busy including a Pulveriser Battlebots style hammer for your little create to get mashed under

Im just working out what help we can give on the accommodation front. I think at the moment were going to reccomend you stay in the local Travelodge/Travel Inn - and we should be able to help with costs towards that.... watch this space.

Everything is shaping up for this to be a great event, just before Xmas. So if youve not signed up yet, what are you waiting for ?

Signup is available at http://www.featherweights.org http://www.featherweights.org from the Christmas Featherweight Event section !

Thanks

Ed
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**storm** · 29th October 2003, 10:13

Hi all, we thought it was probably about time we sent out an update on the Christmas Feather Weight Smash for those of you who are already going, and provided a reminder to those who havent signed up yet to come along. Weve got lots more confirmed than we did when we first announced the event !

Accommodation

There is a fund to help offset Saturday night accommodation costs for teams attending. We realise that featherweight teams are often less well funded than the big heavyweight teams. Were recommending that you stay in the Norwich Travel Inn here Holt Road, Norwich Airport, Norwich, NR6 6JA - 08701 977 291 They do rooms for Â£44.95 per night which will sleep 2 adults and 2 children (1 Double bed, and 2 singles in each room). This is the closest Travel Inn to the venue - there are others around Norwich to choose from, however these things always work out better if everyone ends up in the same place !

Event Format

Stu and Co at Feather Weights.org are busy working out the finer details of the event format. What is known is that to win the Grand Prize you would have to attend for both days. The winner will be decided on points format based on performance over the weekend - and points mean prizes ! There will also be plenty of sideshow events running alongside the main event, so even if you get knocked out there will be plenty of chances to fight - and you might event find a wildcard round to win your way back into the main competition !

This year as well as our Featherweight arena, which is being upgraded to have a roof and higher side walls well have some custom built arena hazards. Huge pneumatic hammers, and spinning disks of doom for you to try to use tactically in your fights - dont panic, none of them are designed to cause terminal damage, but could help you on points in a fight !

As well as the new arena - this years event will have a serious sound system, and professional lighting - creating an amazing atmosphere in the huge space that is Inspire !

Prizes and Prize Fund

There will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes for the main competition, as well as smaller prizes for those winning sideshow competitions. At this point in time were keeping the prize fund secret - however its larger than last year, and the top prize winner should expect to take away more than enough in winnings to build themselves a new robot ! And as for the trophies - soon BattleBots isnt going to be the only place that you can go and win a Giant Nut !

Still not Signed Up ???

If youve still not signed up to the event, theres still time. Visit http://www.featherweights.org/inspire www.featherweights.org/inspire and fill in an application form. Those attending so far are :

PLF, MiniMoth - the new featherweight from Team Behemoth !, Stiff Breeze, Dark Carrot, Tantrum, Cut-Let, FlowRate, Gianto, RIP, Scorpion JR, Terror Turtle, Rampage 2 and Micro-Maul - theres also more coming from local schools to try and take on the big boys in the arena !

This should be a great event, just before Christmas, with a real Christmas feel to it. The publicity for the event is huge - with adverts in the Robot Wars Club magazine, online and across the Eastern Counties. No doubt well head out into town in Saturday night for an evening of food and drink (lemonade for the under 18s!).

We all look forward to seeing you at the event, and seeing the last event of the 2003 Robot Calendar out with a bang !

Take care

Ed
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**s8nsmum** · 24th November 2003, 11:14

Is there any predictions of when the closing date for applications will be? I hope to have my bot finished in time but things always go wrong so i dont want to take up a place and stop someone with a working bot from going only to not go myself.

Joseph Townsend

P.I.M.P.anought

**ewan** · 24th November 2003, 15:43

Im sorry but because of a few reasons we (team Mini-Maul) will not be able to make it to this event, Im going on holiday and even if I could go to the event, Id have nowhere to stay, I didnt have much success in the booking side of things...
Anyway I promise Ill make it to the 2004 featherweight smash, With Micro-Maul evo2 Even though evo1 will not have gone to any events.
Cheers, Ewan
P.S all I can say is evo two involves 24kg of walking featherweight with a BIG 6kg vertical disc at the front