2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

[cliveb]

I have come to the conclusion that fishing is a lot less stressfull than building robots.

[Kenny]

Sounds like the packs have a low discharge rate so when the speed 900s and solinoids are powered your getting a voltage drop and resetting the victors when the solinoid is turned off

[cliveb]

might try a nicad pack tomorrow but the gaffer says i have had too much red label to try taking a bat pack apart tonight. lol.
specially after i fell over the end of the settee

[grant_ploughbot]

Hey guys- quick update.

We have ordered the Hardox and steel for the floor, and we will get it monday hopefully so we will be stupidly busy trying to get that ready for the event. We cannot guarentee it to be finished intime but we will try our best!

Thankyou jamie for pointing out our showtimes etc, i will send an e-mail out at the weekend with all the arrival times and other info you might be interested in.

The format for the competition is similar to the European Championships but a few more 1 on 1s.

Round 1 will consist of 3-way mellees. Each robot in the competition will get 3 fights each, and your points added up. The top 10 will go through to the next round.

Round 2 - 5x 1 on 1 fights, winner goes through. The rest go into a 5-way loosers mellee and the winner goes through to get a total of 6 robots.

Round 3 - 3x 1 on 1 fights, winner goes through, loosers mellee and winner goes through.

Semi Finals - 2 x 1 on 1 fights, winner goes through.

Finals - 1 on 1 final.


The first rounds will take up the entire first day, and we will try and add a whiteboard in each show.
The second day will consist of the rest of the rounds and also an annihilator consisting of 6 robots.
One robot gets knocked out each round untill we have a winner.

Most whiteboards will be held on the sunday, and we will add a couple of non-spinner whiteboards (although spinners will take preference).

The draw will be done tommorow, so keep an eye out!

We are booked in at the Washington A1 (M) Northbound travel lodge.

I have probably missed a few of your questions, just post up or e-mail me and ill try and answer them as soon as.

[robotwars]

so we all get to do 3 x 3way melees in the first round? Before any robots are knocked out?

[grant_ploughbot]

Yep, everyone gets a minimum of 3 competition fights aslong as they dont get destroyed.
This means in the first round you will be fighting a total of 6 other robots, so you have a good chance of meeting a spinner

[robotwars]

cool i like the sound of that although i dont think it will last 3 fights. :-) looking forward to it.

[dgr]

I like the sound of that too. Now I just need to find a way of making JFT survive one fight, never mind three! Ha. Gunna be a great couple of days methinks.

[teamshock]

Clive, we had a similar problem when we ran aftershock on an electronize switch. We solved the problem by replacing it with a servo and microswitch setup, it has worked fine ever since.

Will

[liambryant]

Im going to have to arrive a bit later than 8:30, My dad is Backshift on Friday the day before and he wont be home until 11 at night just to let u know

Liam