12/13th July 2008 - Roaming Robots - Royal International Air

**john** · 14th July 2008, 21:34

kody, team buds new colours

black and silver

sam you were close a few times - im glad that i didnt have to fight you again in a full combat event lol

**geeza** · 14th July 2008, 21:53

Not the best event ever, due to the weather etc. But I agree probably the best day of roboteering ever. I think having Saturday off meant we could all prepare properly, meaning very few technical problems on Sunday. Things ran very smoothly indeed.

Congrats to the Iron Awe team, much deserved win, although I think it was a very open champs with lots of people in with a chance. I think Tiberious was unlucky against Nipper they were very aggressive, just kept missing. Also the much improved Thor was impressive, Thz was its usual reliable self and DTK of course very well driven and seems reliable once again. Apocalypse did as well as the year before so Im not too disapointed, considering Im only just learning how to drive it.

Big thanks to Jonno for getting the go ahead on Sunday. And thanks to all the roboteers there was a true sense of sportsmanship in the pits, with every prepared to help each other.

**robotwars** · 15th July 2008, 08:41

yeah not the best event ever, we did miss the 700,000 people which were supposed to attend !!

:sad:

John

**stu** · 15th July 2008, 14:18

But the 60 or so annoying roboteers in the audience made the event so much fun to run.

Jonnos Quote:
This weekend has really inspired me to take that leap IÂ¡Â¦ve been planning !!

You or Us? LOL!
Can i send you the list again. hehe.

I jetted to Spain the next day to come see my parents here in their villa and copied all the pictures and movie clips onto my (new) USB stick i got just before the event ended, and came here to spain with the USB stick and its corrupted. So all videos and pics i dont have with me here in Spain, so will be Sunday when all the media goes live - sorry. Stupid Ebay buying.

Mr Stu

(Message edited by stu on July 15, 200

**craig_anto** · 15th July 2008, 15:15

quote of the weekend was little Alex i know lots of words i shouldnt

bless him

**robotwars** · 15th July 2008, 17:33

i had a conversation with him, and sarah bell, and out of the two its definately sarah whos the innocent one !!!

**kinforester** · 15th July 2008, 18:13

Well that was certainly an interesting weekend. when we turned up a Friday there was a river running through the marquee, and we were told we couldnt put the campervan on the campsite (we spent the weekend camping in a lay-by ,Lucky heather anyone?), and the robot wasnt finished !

We managed to get the the robot running, I for one was glad for the extra day,it had been a frantic week trying to get Hortron up and running and i have admit to a few silly mistakes (I know the Burket has an arrow on the side, but when your tired !). so a big thank you to all the people who helped us out.

Well done to all the teams especially Iron-awe and DTK.

The biggest thank you has to go to Jonno and the rest of the crew , as others have said the Sunday was one of the best.

Just a couple of other things , One is how the hell did we get into the last eight! firstly with robot we have never run before, and we never actually fired the flipper once? I hope this is a lucky robot. The other is congrats to Mr Stu for getting a 2:1 .

+1>Gord