Not sure if its the same location, but it will be closeby anyway.Hmm... maybe it will be wurth shipping my robot and have 2 events in 1 weeks. Then leave it behind in pieces.
First off B.B. has to get enough College / School entries for E.S.P.N to film.
Then ...probably ..perhaps there will be a PRO Event and E.S.P.N. can be persuaded to film it.
E.S.P.N. = Eastern Sports Programing Network
RG is at Fort Mason in San Francisco (near the Golden Gate Bridge).
BB has not announced where the tournament will be, but will probably take place somewhere near San Francisco.
And are you planning on going to both events then....?
im just curious as in the early stages of robot wars finishing, i wondered what would happen if RW returned to our live event circuit... I would have hoped both would compliment each other... Series 7 had more reliable and devloped machines because of our live events.
the machines now are very reliable nowadays and it would look a lot better on tv
we need robot wars back!
BB are prob back to make more money so i doubt they will join with RG
Team Storm will be attending RoboGames 2008 with Storm II - the tickets are booked and we€™re ready to go.
We have a number of sponsorship announcements to make in the coming weeks, however thanks to our International Shipping partner Davis Turner; Storm II will be flight cased and air-freighted to San Francisco, and the team will be flying out with the help of British Airways. The rest of the teams costs are being met using some of the funding that our other sponsors (to be announced shortly) have provided.
More details will be appearing on our website soon.
Tim, Meral & Ed
http://www.teamstorm.comhttp://www.teamstorm.com
niceone
good luck!
Hi Jonno,
We will try to hit both events, mostly because we want to be loyal to the on going west coast events, and also because I hope some of the vetrans come out of hiding since the cameras went away...and play with the new breed of bots!!! I always like a chance to play with BB vets!
As to where it will be, BB will most likely happen at the close Mare Island Navel Base where the arena is stored about 20 or 30 minutes fron S.F.
((Ive now seriously condemed myself to all first and second round losss!!! Oh well...))
I believe that the two event wont hurt each other to much because few of the east coast builders that will come out to BB only, wouldnt go to RG. and the ones that will make RG will do both anyway. I know their are some that will choose one over the other, but that will happen anyway!
There is still to many egos and bad feeling in this sport still to this day...I just like to play in the arena...I dont care whos arena it is!!!
I dont think TV we hurt us in the long run because tv will bring more builders than live event. Well I mean they see it on tv, look it up on the net, come to a live event, and then build!
Thats what we did!
So it might hurt this/or the first season, but it should grow the number of builders looking for a place to fight!
Good job Tim cant wait to see STORM II again,
I sure hope some of the flippers can make it...
and remember their wont be a megabyte there
(Ive tried to get him there but I dont think theyll make it out)
Just a couple of spinners to worry about
Good luck over there with TV and all the live events
As for BattleBots - it will be the 2nd week of November at Mare Island. The collegiate event will be shot for TV. The non-collegiate stuff wont be for TV.
FYI on US bots in general. I was looking at historical ranking of US bots, and in the 220s, the 3 highest ranking bots arent spinners - theyre lifters. So Uk builders shouldnt worry about spinners as much as you do.
Thread here:
http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/discus/messages/59/11993.html?1207617965http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/disc...tml?1207617965
hi dave.
can i just say that the majority of uk bots really dont mind fighting spinners and are not afraid of your us spinners. with 2 posts telling us not to worry about them seems a like we are a bunch of robot wimps. we dont have many spinners over here simply because we dont have an arena to contain them. Envy and Thor would love the chance to come over but simply cant afford it this year. mabee will see you at uk champs? if so look forward to a drink.
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