** UK Championships Update **

Hi Guys,

Well I have just returned from a vist to the Haven park, stayed in their Gold Star Accomodation last night where I was made to feel very welcome, and can recommend it!! The park was a busy hub of people this morning, as people were packing up at the end of their holidays.
The staff at the park are certainly looking forward to the event.

The meeting went very well, and most things are now finalised, still a bit of work to do but all on track for a great event.

The competition is going to be a 3 day competition, running from Wednesday 29th - Friday 31st August. The arena will be set-up and ready by 12pm on the Tuesday and open for anyone who wants to test their robot before the competition starts on Wednesday morning.

The schedule will be:

Monday 27th August - Set-up
Tuesday 28th August - Set-up (am) and Testing (pm)
Wednesday 29th August - Heats - First Round
Thursday 30th August - Second Round + Other Competitions
Friday 31st August - Semi Final + Finals

The Feather weight competition will run throughout the same three days, following the similar pattern, Wednesday - first round, Thursday second round, and Friday for the semi, and finals.

Each day will feature 4 x 1 hour sessions, the show times will be 10am-11am, 12pm-1pm, 2pm-3pm, 4pm-5pm.
We are working on tea and coffee provided throughout, and then abuffee cart provided for lunch time each day. And once the public leave after the 5pm we have the use of the venue for food, drink, and socialising, and then we can all go and have a jolly good game of bingo before bed


The actual accommodation for this event has not quite been finalised yet, we are still working on it, however it may be the case that we will be offering apartments for each team rather than camping. I will relay information when it is decided, hopefully very soon.

Again, as the weeks pass by we will be shipping information to you both via the forum and email following the schedule below.

Update (25th May 2007)
Competition rules, and details (Mid June 2007)
Sign ups online in RR website (ongoing)
Sign ups close (1st August)
Competition draw takes place (4th August 2006)
Draw results released (11th August 2006)
Final Details (18th August 2006)

The venue is one of the 3 Main Show bars, namely the €œ Bonga Wonga €œ, which has a capacity of 1000 people, a bar, food, amusements, sound and lights and its ours for the whole period.

Of course each team which takes part, will need to be members of both the FRA, and Roaming Robots. This will need to be done before hand as it is a way of guaranteeing your place.The deadline for this is 20th July 2007.

Apart from that, I think that€™s about it for now,

Any questions or comments can be posted here, or email me john@roamingrobots.co.uk.


Regards

John
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