>>> 23rd-27th August / The RR UK Championships 2

[lex]

Thanks for those kind words Rob!
Weve had some problems, so getting to a playoff in one of the tougher pods was more than I expected. We were even doing quite well in the second match against Beast until we got stuck upside down! We took quite a bit of minor damage from Kan-Opener in the previous fight- nothing structural but enough to create quite a bit of work. As usual Woody performed miracles, improvising a new electronic switch for the weapon among other things.
Although theyve run out of gearboxes and cant run an active lifter, Sewer Snake were really starting to find the range today in the international competition. Highlight of the afternoon session was a melee with Sewer Snake, Storm II, Behemoth and CCW02. Very entertaining indeed with Sewer Snake really showing its paces and an amazing blink-and-you-missed-it moment with Storm II driving under Behemoth, who was down the pit, and popping him out at the cost of getting stuck in the pit instead. Im looking forward to seeing that one again in slo-mo on the DVD!

So who is in the finals on Sunday then?

Turb beat Storm 2 in the finals.

In the finals or final ?

The winner of the heavyweight event is TURB!!

WAY TO GO DAVEY BOY !!! (I will never hear the last of this on msn)

Congratulations to Dave and the turbulence team, good to see it beating all the usual suspects.
What was the rest of the line up ?
Sounds like Turbulence No1
Storm 2 No.2
3?
4?
Did Nippers anti spinner weapon work?
Did Terrahurtz manage to dent Storm2?
Did anyone manage to weld the wheels on the little feather (push and shove?)

(Message edited by killercarrot on August 27, 2006)

(Message edited by killercarrot on August 27, 2006)

[lex]

Featherweight Champion: Captain Scarlet- very impressive performance from an inexpensive kit. Well driven throughout and looked to have very good handling.
International Champ: Kronic
Annihilator winner: Dantomkia

Congratulations to the winners and to Roaming Robots for a great tournament!

Well done too to Pulveriser, which proved to be very effective indeed and came 4th, suprising many, an excellent performance by Spike to finish runner-up in the Annihilator and a podium finish in 3rd for Beast, justifying its high ranking and overcoming problems with the flipper blade.

Thanks for all the kind words, Ive just got in and im tierd and got the ive been camping back ache and it still hasnt hit me that weve done so well - Eds still out partying (dont blame him) but i wanted to come home for a shower lol

To clear it up, this is what happened:

spike - OOTA
iron awe 3 - OOTA
kronic - OOTA
tan - OOTA
ripper - OOTA
big nipper - OOTA
storm 2 - Stacked

A huge congradulations to all the other competitors who did so well in the other competitions. Including James cooper who won the featherweight competition.

Also a big thanks to Shane for being the lucky mascot during the battles. See you all at the winter tour

Dave Moulds
Team Turbine - UK Fighting robots champions

[jamesb]

Including James cooper who won the featherweight competition.... on his 21st birthday to if I remember the date correctly?

Well done Dave
Well done James

sorry I missed it all.