22nd / 23rd March 2008 - Easter Robot Rumble - Colchester

[babeth]

Im working on the pictures. Shot some 1064 of them... Theyll be posted soon on the Dutch pictures site, will give the url later on. Sorry for the bad quality of some of them but the lighting was not strong enough this time and so the shutter speed had to take too long. (Well yeah, I do prefer a well-lighted arena... I also prefer non-scratched polycarb and finding the one and only less-scratched-than-elsewhere position took me to the far side of the arena - away from all the folks and the fun. Say... Wasnt that the designated roboteer viewing area by the way ? Why was I all alone and lonely there, except when a 21-way melee was taking place and space with a good view suddenly became a premium ? )

It was a great event, with lots of nice people I havent seen in too long a time, and some truly spectacular fights. Well done to the winners, but Id say also well done to all the others. Many thanks to the organisers, for a great venue and a good old-fashioned roboteering fun weekend.

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LOL -

Rob No body told me there was a big hole in the floor Grimm

I would have thought the loud siren and the blinding Strobe lighting would give it away? Oh well..... I think im going to install Electric shock wrist bands.. so when the pit is activate, you all get a shock.... Hehe!!

Was a good fun event - and the Snow Ball Fights on the Sunday were a load of fun. Im on a thin line with Jonno for getting him 3 times with snow balls. - oh well. LOL. The chicken - well - It had to be done.... Haha.

Pictures and movie clips will be online on Wends at 10pm.

See you all soon.

Mr Stu
http://www.RoamingRobots.co.ukwww.RoamingRobots.co.uk

[liambryant]

Wednesday at 10? Is that what the countdown is for?

[psycho_fling]

good event psycho fling worked well until someone cough*DB5*cough broke the lifter and in the same fit psycho fling caught fire and blow a battery yippy more money to spend....

some great battles well done to the winners, and just to let everyone know that block of wood made it to the fw final and because 2 other fws broke down before us i believe it came 6th out of about 28 robots

alex

[razerdave]

Great Event, shame it took me until 2 this afternoon to get home...

[Andy]

Will
We have nearly all the FW fights on film especially Chicken Run 2.I will start putting them up on YT tomorrow. Thanks again for loan of crystal.
Cheers
Steve & Pam

[pressure]

Hi guys, thanks to all for a great event.
A home win was a nice birthday present for Skink (Colcester 2006 was its first event), Adam was so pleased he won an Easter egg!!!
To be honest Pressure was lucky, a good first round draw (though TAN is a slippery devil).
A tough semi with Ripper and IA5, not having to fight the favorite was a real bonus (the pit was open for about 10 seconds before you backed into it, weve all done it!).
A 2 to 1 judges decision against Bigger Brother in the final who was loosing power and gas at the end! Sorry Ian, I have no doubt you will give me a good kicking at Burgess Hill!
Thanks again to Geoff, RR et al, MIke.
PS we have video of most fights.

[razerdave]

Speaking of Loaned Crystals (Andrew), Someone borrowed a set of mine because they clashed, but I cant remember who, anyone wanna step forward ?

[babeth]

My pictures can be found at http://www.bugs.nl/media/album/index.php?path=L3J3L2NvbGNoZXN0ZXIyMDA4L2JlLWJhYnM vhttp://www.bugs.nl/media/album/index...MDA4L2JlLWJhYn Mv
Have fun viewing them... My favourite is the TAN-Mighty Mouse full-body-slam ! (page 9)

And, as always, you can email or pm me for bigger versions of your favourite picture(s).

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[Andy]

David
If you remember when we checked trough your crystals they were nearly all the same as we had so were clashing, luckily Will had one that was free.
Steve