15/16th April 2006 RR Robot Rumble at Colchester

[big_nipper]

The best event of the year so far, big thanks to the Robot Rumble crew and Roaming Robots and hope all the rest of the events this year will be as good, Just a bit difficult for feathers with the poor quality of the arena floor.

Anyone got any vids of the final & Semi finals?

Well done to Kan-opener, I blame my brother for driving in the pit, He blames me for addiing a long deceleration ramp to the robot But we were simply out driven by Kan-opener.

[teammad]

Mark,
Got vids of both. Will get them on net some time today.

also well done to both winners , HW final was very exiting ..... a shame Hades drive just stopped after about one minute ( still didn´t find out what ...) , gonna change the powerdrive/4qd´s to simple boshes and vantec to make it relayble ....CU all next time ... !

[beast]

i would like to thank all for the good start we had but has any one got the end of the first melle fight on sat as the sidwinder stopped right at end of fight ahh
also need to know whats the fastest OOTA
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/lichfield/beast_melle.wmvhttp://homepage.ntlworld.com/lichfield/beast_melle.wmv sorry for Pressure 2 seconds and pussycat

thanx to iron ore for flipping us with flipper open and upside down and thanx to DYweb for the footage

see you all at fairford air show !!

[geoff]

A BIG well done to Geoff Thorpe & the RR crew.
One of the best events for a while...It was great to see so many of the old faces again.
We WILL get the hang of Dantomkia... eventualy!:sad:
Evilution was not fully on form either, although
Batter Bot managed a 3rd in the feathers!

Sorry about the arena side-wall John!
(Nothing that a welding torch and a BIG hammer cant fix! :wink

One request..Does anyone have any reasonably good res. video of a washing machine meeting an untimely end at the hands of Scorpion / Tornado / Beast?

Looking forward to next year!

Geoff, John & Sarah.
Team Scorpion

Only my eyes. Does that count?

The arena took a real beating thanks to Scorpian and Turbulence. Hope are hammer isnt a write off, it did get its revenge in advance though, DB5 is sufficiently bent after several hammer blows. Needed an overhaul anyway, have a new weapon for it just need to build it.

A very good event as they go, none of our robots were on form but Im sure they will be at some point. We have a vid of the Ripper, Big Nipper and Turbulence fight from saturday will get it online later.

[robotwars]

Well at least i know that once i bolt on the extra 5mm steel, that the nasty scorpion wont hurt the arena.

Structuraly the arena is sound... all we need to do is contain you WHEN you get flipped out of the arena with disc at full chat !!!

I will be going through the tapes later so best bits, and some of the best fights will be on the website very soon.

Regards

John
http://www.RoamingRobots.co.ukwww.RoamingRobots.co.uk

[geeza]

Second thoughts, cant put the vid up its 60MB

[lex]

A very enjoyable and suprisingly sucessful show for us- I was really happy to finally compete at the Easter Rumble. A great show from the RR team who somehow managed to keep the feel of this gig despite the total change of venue. Finishing third with Ka-Pow! completely exceeded expectations even if we did seem to sneak through the competition a bit. Really enjoyable fights against Bigger Brother, Weird Alice (OOTA, but not working right- rematch?) and Kan Opener and some great melees too. We finished with a gas leak and a slightly thinner robot thanks to Kan Opener, but we could hardly be happier if wed won. Thanks to Jonno for the polycarb and bolts and to Team TMT and Team Turbine for help and additional drills getting the extra panel on in time for the Kan Opener fight. Great to see a lot of the old guard like Mike, Andy, George, Rex, John, Jacky and Alan, as well as some great folks I hadnt met before like the Spike Team. My wife Tracey finally had a crack at working the flipper and turned out to be a natural. Particular thanks for all the support and encouragement going into the semi-final. I think we gave it a good shot, but Kan Openers a great robot with a great driver and we just couldnt get away from them for long enough!
Just in case anyone didnt already know, Ka-Pow! was largely designed by Woody and uses an ultra high flow medium pressure pneumatic system driving a custom high pressure ram. Its unconventional and extremely powerful. Woody wasnt able to stay after the first session on Saturday and missed all our best fights. If any of our better fights could be posted Id be grateful.
All the best,
John and Tracey.