2009 Fighting Robots FW UK Championships hosted by Robo Chal

**teamshock** · 16th March 2009, 11:50

Thanks for a great event and well done to Beauty for winning again, the final was a really good fight and I was surprised that it lasted the full 3 minutes. Well done to tiny toon also for winning the annihilator!

Also a huge thank you to everyone who helped me out over the weekend especially Andy who helped to weld aftershock back together and for keeping it gassed up throughout. Special thanks to Clive Jonathan Pierce Brown for his gripping commentary for mum and dad.

Finally thanks to Tessa (Alexs mum) for driving the 300 miles each way to take me there.

Well done to everyone again and see you all at Burgess Hill

**RogueTwoRobots** · 16th March 2009, 12:03

I should be at uni just now but it was a long weekend so I opted to stay in bed at home this morning

What an awesome event that was! A big thank you to the Coopers and their hard-working crew for hosting what was, yet again, a top class championship! The whole weekend was great fun from start to finish.

We all keep saying this time will be different but we were all wrong again - Beauty 2 won!

Seriously though, well done John and LJ. One day may your domination of Robochallenge events end! But congratulations until then

(and thanks for XP)

Well done to Will for powering all the way to the final and claiming 2nd place. Calling it close would be an understatement but it fought well all throughout the weekend and put on a good show.

Congrats also to Tom with Savage Evo - thats one nasty robot! Caught my drum with a sweet hit in the 3rd-place-playoff and pulled it out of its mount

Not looked at it closely yet but is most likely fixable. Well done though for a great showing!

So Drumroll finished 4th in what was a better showing than I could have imagined for only its second event with the new weapon setup. Drive was a bit erratic at times (honest, I opened the pit because I wanted to drive into it, I swear) and the roll cage failed epically when it mattered most, but its overall performance made me very happy and determined to reach just that little bit higher at the next competition.

All the spinners, new and existing, put on a great show and looked awesome in such an excellent arena. Heres hoping the domination of the spinny massy things is approaching

Thanks again to everyone for a fantastic weekend. Photos should hopefully be up sometime this week, and fingers crossed for videos within the fortnight.

Jamie

**RogueTwoRobots** · 16th March 2009, 12:05

Oh yeah, well done also to Alex for winning the Annihilator with Tiny Toon and to Clive and Wendy for your hospitality on the Saturday night - hope you enjoyed the haggis

**dgr** · 16th March 2009, 13:09

Razers demo -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNKGt4tIhO8&feature=channel_page

and Japanese Fighting Tortoise eating disc!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTLbVChdZYc&feature=channel_page

If anyone is interested, in that first charge from JFT into DB5, he got the wheel and cut my motor in half. My own fault really! After that, it was just, er, cosmetic damage, ha.

(Message edited by Dgr on March 16, 2009)

**teamshock** · 16th March 2009, 16:18

Here is the first of my Videos- I quite like this one :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q3a_-1yfiA&feature=channel_page

I am hoping to upload the final a bit later on- complete with commentary from Clive

**razerdave** · 16th March 2009, 16:53

This is LS3s first fight against Kishar and Beauty 3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aFC8YYDzic&feature=channel_page

I have more to upload, and I shall soon