Robo Challenge Tag Team Champs & Power Tool Drag racing!

**grant_ploughbot** · 2nd September 2009, 07:18

Hi Baz,
For the drag racing both the indoor and outdoor racing will have 3 qualifying runs. They will be drawn at random so you will be against a different dragster each time.
Your worst time will be dropped and the average of your best 2 runs are used to determine your position. The top 4 Dragsters of each catagory go through to a 3rd and 4th play-off and the 1st and 2nd place finals.

Hope that makes sense!

Also, i'm not sure if your planning on comming on the Saturday - but the Indoor qualifying thats been put on saturday afternoon is for anyone thats there on the saturday. If your only comming Sunday it wont affect you at all.
This is only done because the schedual is so tight and with 40-50 dragsters expected to turn up it is almost impossible to get through all the qualifying runs on the sunday.

**banana_man** · 2nd September 2009, 10:34

Grant,
I couldn't use the entry form on your website, so I sent you a signup email. Could you tell me whether you have received it?

**Baz** · 2nd September 2009, 10:46

I'll probably be there both days in some capacity old bean. I've got some toys that require playing with!

**grant_ploughbot** · 2nd September 2009, 11:34

Alex - Yes I did get your e-mail thankyou. Your are on the list!

Baz - I look forward to seeing them

**razerdave** · 2nd September 2009, 17:48

Hey Guys

I'm still struggling with my dragster, and for some very bizzare reason which has not been found out, Satanix's speedo controller blew up yesterday evening (I mean actually blew up - the big capacitor next to the battery In lead on the Scorpion XL blew its top and lots of magic smoke came out).

The controller has been sent for repair and a replacement XXL sent fot the competition. But I still have no clue if this dragster will be done

**robotwars** · 2nd September 2009, 20:50

can i ask about the robots. . . ,

how the competition will be done?

There doesn't seem to be much time for a big competition with rounds and loosers mellee's etc like normal. ?

Interested to know what happens if you get knocked out in the first round. . . Do you just go and play with yr drag racer instead?

I noticed no actual planned white board fights in the schedule.. . . Just so we know what to expect when we get there. :-)

**calumco** · 2nd September 2009, 21:18

in relation to what john just asked- well sort of, whilst all the drag racing is going on, if a roboteer isn't needed again or isn't needed for ages, are we ok to have our own little whiteboard type fights?

**grant_ploughbot** · 2nd September 2009, 22:00

The format is exactly the same as the last Tag team event we ran!
And as usual, after the first rounds the other shows will have whiteboards in.

Each team will have two fights in the first round which will fill up the first 2 sessions. This will be scored up on a points system and the top 8 teams will go through to the next round. From then in its a straight knockout untill the finals, with a 3rd and 4th place play-off as we did at thinktank last time. We hope there will be a good number of whiteboards as usual.

During the Drag racing the arena will be shut off so no fighting whilst thats going on. If one of us are around the arena then testing can be done as usual.

This is no different to our Thinktank event, only its spread over 2 days with drag racing in between and camping.
No event update i've ever seen has ever written down how many whiteboards are in each session? Depending on how smoothly the day runs will depend how many more whiteboards we can add in.