This is an early warning announcement about the Fighting Robots 2008 UK championships.
UK Featherweight Championships hosted by Robochallenge
24th and 25th May 2008 Venue in the English Midlands
UK Heavyweight Championships hosted by Roaming Robots
12th and 13th July 2008 Venue Riat Fairford Gloucestershire.
These events are already in our event section and will be updated with information soon.
One of the 3 RR events I cant go to and it had to be the UK HW champs.
I have a question: How come its over 2 days as opposed to 4/5days as the previous one was ?
In the past the heavy weight championships has been organised in two hour shows. 2007 ran for three days for four hours per day.
This event will run both days with minimal breaks.
possibly 10 Am until 6 PM and therefore more show time.
There will be a limit on the number of entrants and it may lead to a trials event to be held before hand.
You now need to await the details from the event organisers for more information
Well done RR for getting the UK champs. When was the vote held, I must have missed that one?
Isnt it gonna be too noisy to do a competition like that at an airshow though, and 2 days seems too short for the major competition of the year?
The governing body decided who should host the UK championships from the proposals put forward by both Roaming Robots and Robots Live. This was decided over email ballot earlier this month due to specific request by the event organisers for a speedy decision.
I would be very disappointed if we could not attend this event, I had this firmly on my calendar before the champs was announced. Why does there have to be a limit on attendance? would it not have been better to have an event over more days so everyone could have a go?
I agree with Chris, I am not too thrilled about the choice for Fairford either. I really wanted to go to Fairford, but if it is done as the UK championship that means I must go to a qualifier to go there.
a limit on attendance, ive never heard of that before, but if that is the case im sorry to say its ridiculous and i wouldnt even bother going. was this the same for all eos that applied? if not then i thought that should of been taken into consideration? surely the more robots their the better?
we all go on about trying to grow the sport etc.... and then i here this crazy idea.
Is this going to be one of those long threads going on and on about tangents and how it€™s not fair again? If so please count me out!
Just to say well done to RR for getting the gig, if I can compete in this then great, if my robot sucks so bad it cant compete then the fault lies with my sad robot design. And I will be in the crowd cheering or helping other teams where I can. What ever happens I€™m looking forward to the show.
Sorry if the last post seemed a little harsh it€™s not my intention to offend.
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