26th/27th March 2005 Debenham Robot Rumble

[stu]

You never know,
Hate to bring this up but im sure Ed and XFM wont mind. Yes its been a big down-er, but money has been lost and now its time to try and get some of it back, and time to pick your self up and get an event going. Maybe the Debenham area has lost Robot Wars high, Debenham has been going for what? 4 years? Never know, Robot Rumble may return somewhere else - no one knows yet. But XFM have come back strong with lots of little event booked and bigger bigger ones planned for future.

Kane you better go on all the rides!

Mr Stu

[martyn]

I know this is the wrong thing to ask but will the public be able to get money back

Apparantly, Yes.

Even though I couldnt have gone anyway, im sorry to hear about that :sad:

Sorry guys, cant make alton towers now... :-(

[martyn]

what about people who dont have internet, how do they no that the event is now off

Message from Geoff Thorpe, Robot Rumble Organiser

Letters have been sent out to all people who bought tickets, and a refund cheque will follow very shortly.

Were are already planning next years event, after learning from the errors this year and we hope to have your continued support for them, and we will be back, bigger and better than ever before. See you next year.

Mr Stu on behalf of Geoff Thorpe.

[jenny]

Sorry cant make Alton Towers, See you at Denbigh

Ladies and Gentlemen

The FRA governing body are deeply dissapointed by the cancellation of this event. We had been in negotiation with Mr Thorpe with regard to his objection to the attendance of Ed Hoppitt and at no time had he hinted at any problems that would have put the event at risk.

In addition we find his very short explanation circulated to the entrants via Roaming Robots to be unacceptable. We request Mr Thorpe to publish on this forum a more detailed explanation and an apology to all concerned, particurlarly to our friends from Belgium and the Netherlands. We would also request Mr Thorpe make every effort to reimburse our continental friends for any out of pocket expenses with regard to ferry bookings.

Our representative visited the venue today and neither Mr Thorpe nor his agents were there. The only information to alert the public was a poster on the door with cancelled stuck to it, there was no statement available, and the staff of Debenham were doing their best to deal with complaints and enquiries - only having Mr Thorpes contact details to circulate. The FRA have therefore produced an apology stating how dissapointed we all are that this has been cancelled, and we hope that this will go some way to filling the information void left by Mr Thorpe. A copy of this document can be seen http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/docu...ancel.pdf>here