Rebel Robots

[banana_man]

Good event and good atmosphere. Well done all, especially Craig and Alex.

[typhoon_driver]

Just finished disassembling and testing hornet and worked out what went wrong (bar the obvious disc coming loose :P)

It seems that when the disc jammed against the small sprocket on the mag the mag stalled drawing a huge current. This heated up the batteries and caused the plastic end caps on the batteries to melt and smoke (causing me to run like a loon through the pits to get the batts out!).

Tested the batteries and apart from being slightly unbalanced they seem to be unscathed from their ordeal and the mag works but it sounds a little rough. Gonna open it up next time Im back in the workshop.

Things are looking good for hornet to make an appearance at robochallenge in Newcastle

[anukhet]

Congratulations to Alex for putting up such a good fight and fighting back again and again to win. It could have gone either way until Pillow Torque conked out but I blame Kenny for that
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Bad luck Karoline, both you and Alex put on an excellent show of skillful driving. Take note of that folks No pit? Damn! Ive been rumbled!

Many thanks to Will for another hard fight in the semi-final and congrats for his teams 3rd & 4th places.

Last but not least my thanks goes to Craig and his crew for all the hard work they put in with the arena and the event. You can relax now mate!!

[Mouldy]

If a said person got a hold of a video of there own robot in craigs arena and was to put said video on youtube and then post it on the forum.. would that be a breach of the contract which i didnt sign?

[craig_colliass]

Tron got to the 1/4 finals.....................................What are the odds!!!!
Craig I say it again Very well done,I hope you havent been put off doing another soon.
Tiny Toon what a great result.
I had some problems controlling Tron on the day I think it was radio reception. I would blame myself but ....thank goodness for Kenny!!!

[dragonmaster_1]

Would not do that Dave might cause problems for Craig and it did say before the event no filming allowed

[razerdave]

Whats all this blaming Kenny business ?

[Kenny]

dave moulds blamed me for 360 loosing to suprise and craig just said everyone to blame everything on me, nothing new......

[cliveb]

Just got home.
Thanks very much to Craig and his crew for a wonderfull event.Yes there were teathing problems but how many EOs had a perfect first event?Loved the scoring system, very impressed with the way that Simon the judge kept the drivers informed every time a point was scored.Great that there is another type of event compared to the normal events.
Congratulations to Karoline on reaching the final,it was very close,(3-3) till you lost drive( it was I understand Kennys fault ) also to Will, 2 robots in the last 4, some going.
Now all we have to do is to get Alex to put his trophy down.Hopefully he wont sleep with it again tonight.
Finally congratulations to Alex.We are very proud of you.

[dgr]

Is it too much to ask for the full results off someone? Would love to know who beat who. Also, can someone explain this scoring system for those who werent there?