I have to add my condolences to Liam and Calum and Jamie, and also anyone else who may have lost a relative or friend this year my thoughts are with you all.

My year...well, it's been very strange :P it started with me still living in Kuwait and struggling with a decent featherweight design (and being in the same country as my bits in order to build it) and has ended with me back in England for good, there was a period in late January/early February that basically changed the course of my life in the next couple of years and resulted in me attending sixth form back in Pontefract, and more importantly meant I put some gearmotors and other parts I'd been donated/bought/begged/stolen to good use over the summer, produced my first antweight, and since then I've attended every event I can and met an awful lot of people I've only previously known from the forums, as well as got better at building robots and actually managed to impress Shane among others with the latest Jigsaw, which surprised me an awful lot to be honest XD

It's overall been a really good year, I've got my education on somewhat more of a track than it was before, I've made some very good friends (bringing my all time close friends total to 4! :P) and most importantly fulfilled part of a great childhood dream to get involved with Robot Wars and combat robotics

Here's hoping you all have a great 2010 too (mine will be spent getting my featherweight off the ground :P) and a Happy New Year to one and all!