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

[geoff]

Well done to Mr Grimm, a well deserved if lucky win! (up to the point Dantomkias link fell out it was ahead on points, I know, I was judging!)

Sarah, well done for a well deserved 2nd place, some exellent driving throughout the event.

But next time you feel the urge to launch a small robot from half way across the area towards the judges table at head hight... PLEASE warn me first!!

In addition, a BIG thank you to John and the RR crew for salvageing what turned out to be a real roboteers championship from a potential disaster!

[john]

geoff , its on video to! so hopefully it comes out good - liam from KO has it - he was just behind you so it could be one of those videos which will get ALOT of hits on youtube so liam edit the video and start the video with the roamingrobots link on and then end it with that to so its well advertised

i was ready to dive in with my hands though and save you from getting hit geoff - i promise :P

[big_nipper]

After getting back and unloading the robot at 2am this morning its a good job Im not working today.

Shame about the Air Show being cancelled, but well done to roaming robots and all the roboteers who still made it happen. Nothing seemed to go right for us apart from the robot. Set off Friday morning, got 5 miles and had to turn back as the turbo didnt work as my Dad couldnt get the caravan up the hills. Luckily the garage fixed it and we were on our way a few hours late. Got to the campsite and a Land Rover tryed to pull the caravan on the field and failed, but with a tractor as well suceeded.

We were all disapointed when we hered it was canceled, but with a full extra day on saturday all the robots were well prepared for Sunday and no delays between fights all went very quickly.

Some really good battles on the day, best for us has got to be against Tiberious, been a while since we were that nervous against fighting anohter robot, every time that claw came down and just missied us I cringed. One day we will find out if that arm is powerfull enough to get threw our armour.

IA5 were on top form again as they have been all year, and made our driving look like amatures :sad:, well done, its been a long time in the waiting. Good to see DTK back on form again and the new hinged front and brillient driving by Sarah made them almost unbeatable.

One thing for sure is that roboteers dont make for a good audiance, but it carmed down when Angela got the armed police involved

[joey_picus]

...armed police?

[big_nipper]

Just a joke really, they were watching the robots for a while as they had nothing else to do! and certain unnamed roboteers were heckling Angela while she was on the mic

[swanaldo]

doesnt take a genius to work it out does it so just name them mark oh and can you get my number from graham and give me a ring please i need a favour if you can

[sarah]

Well yes we did launch a small robot out of the arena Geoff, but as we thought you might be asleep we thought we should throw it at you just in case. at least we made sure you saw it leave the arena.

Rob thoroughly enjoyed our battle, ok our key came out, these things happen, your robot worked better than mine in that battle, a well deserved win.

[leorcc]

I enjoyed the audience very much.

In the arena its Apocalypse.

Its Turbulence.

O no it isnt!

O yes it is!

[Mouldy]

well done jonno for making it possible even with all the bad news.

A well deserved win for Iron awe

[babeth]

Im currently processing my pictures and... oh my... theres definitely something to say for outdoor events because Mister Sun is just the best lighting system there ever was. Weve got levitating robots, atrocious damage being inflicted in clear and detailed close-up, and the reactions on the faces of audience and roboteers.
Just a few hours patience people. Or will Stu beat me to it ? (He uploaded my piccies just before we left.)