28 - 31 August, Fighting Robots UK Championships 2007

[lex]

I might need that sheet of Ti Alan...

Lets see what Jonno posts.
Quote from yesterday ...I will post it tomorrow night on the forum and keep everyone happy

Seeing as how its now tommorrow night.....


(Message edited by woody on August 04, 2007)

HIya guys,

Sorry i didn€™t manage to do it last night.... Firstly, I knew there was a reason why I wasn€™t originally posting last night when my wife reminded me that we were going out to the Nottingham festival... no excuses as I don€™t get many days off.

Got back at 11:15pm, and then spent over an hour trying to get my internet to work... damn thing !!!

Gave up after I tried one last time at 1am.

Anyway, better late than never .

Firstly the seeds for the 2007 UK Champs.

There are 8 seeds for this year€™s competition, and they are chosen from the results of the 2006 competitions over the year.

They are:

1) Turbulence
2) Iron Awe3
3) Kan Opener
4) Big Nipper
5) Terrorhurtz
6) Dantomkia
7) Ripper
Beast

The competitors have once again been split into pods. Each pod will feature 3 robots, and include 1 seed. Each robot will fight the robots in its respective pod in the first round. Guaranteeing two fights per robot before they can effectively be knocked out. Points will be awarded by the judges, and the highest scoring robot from each pod will go through to the next round.

We have had a quite a few drop outs, and non confirmed entry€™s over the last week as we knew we would, and so it is now a 24 robot competition with several reserves, which fits a lot better into the 3 days of the competition.

We will be running the main UK Championships throughout, losers from the first round will then be asked if they want to take part in a 6 robot annihilator. And the others will be used for white boards.
There will be a Feather Weight competition of which entry will be sorted out when at the Uk champs.

The list.

Pod A - Turbulence(1) v Tan v Kapow
Pod B - Big Nipper(4) v Envy v Leveler
Pod C - Iron awe 3(2) v Tilly Ewe2 v Iron Awe 5
Pod D - Beast( v Tanglefoot v Tiberious
Pod E - Kan Opener(3) v Das Gepack v Thor
Pod F - Dantomkia(6) v Scorpion v Edgehog
Pod G - Terrorhurtz(5) v Velocirippa v Infinity
Pod H - Ripper(7) v Obsidian v Hive



There will be lots more information coming to you on Friday this week, ( originally planned with the draw results ).


Enjoy and Good Luck Everyone !!!

Regards

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

[woody]

Easily beaten!
Give me back those 4 Burkert valves Mouldy!
Jeroen .... Isnt it about time you returned your 3 port F.P. Valve to me?

leveler thats an oota for me then, thats if big nipper dont pit me first. best get shaving the front scoop.

[lex]

Worth a try Alan!

Yep, thats a tough heat Andy, although with the reduced numbers I reckon the percentage a top-flight machines is now higher so its bound to be tough. Not an easy heat for Kan-Opener either- Das Gepack is quite a slippery low-profile robot and the new Thor is heavily armoured with a dangerous weapon.
Looking forward to it!

Almost forgot- what do we know about Infinity, Hive and Tanglefoot? All new to me.

We have seen Infinity at an event in Abber in 2005. If my meory serves me right or it hasnt been modified I think that it is an invertible pushbot. I dont know about the other two or about Das Gepack.

What happened to Wheely Big Cheese? We thought he was a potential winner!!!

John,

Hive is my latest heavyweight creation. A simple rammer powered by a couple of eteks with some claws on the front.

will put an up to date pic on my profile sometime soon