Robot arena scrapped

[orac]

Just noticed this on the news

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...e-decided.html

Pretty sad really

Orac
http://www.ukrobotgroup.com

[gravity]

omg

that's 250 gbp I would have loved to pay for it...

loooots of polycarbonate etc gone to waste now.
And shame on robot arena guys to not reply in those 5 weeks...

[kane]

A statement from Robot Arenas Ltd

Following the 2004 World Championships the Robot Wars arena was stored at RAF Newton by Robot Arenas Ltd, in March 2005 the set was scrapped by new owners when they took on RAF Newton.

For the last 5 years, Robot Arenas has been fighting a case to try to recover the rebuild cost of the set as we believed that the owners had acted wrongfully in the destruction of the set, and we had a view to using the funds to return the concept to the mainstream.

Sadly, despite doing all we could and taking the case all the way to the high-court, the judge decided that it was actually immaterial whether or not the owner was or was not negligent in destroying the set. In his view the set had little/no commercial value, he believed that the sport was €˜dead€™ and that it was nothing more than a €˜historic memento€™.

It should be noted that the article in the Telegraph does not give the full story. Robot Arenas had not left it in an unlocked building, and Robot Arenas responded within 24hrs to a request to move the set following the handover of the site to new owners.

[dgr]

What a bizarre story this sport has run through.
Fairly sad for anyone still involved, I'm sure loads of us would have paid that price to take it!

[teamhunt]

he believed that the sport was €˜dead€™ and that it was nothing more than a €˜historic memento€™.

DEAD MY ****, If i could, i would SOO pay for the arena, since it is a dream of mine to get robot comabt back on TV (although i think its all of ours TBH :P )

[beast]

the pic is from Robots on destruction as well Dublin

[gravity]

Sadly, despite doing all we could and taking the case all the way to the high-court, the judge decided that it was actually immaterial whether or not the owner was or was not negligent in destroying the set. In his view the set had little/no commercial value, he believed that the sport was €˜dead€™ and that it was nothing more than a €˜historic memento€™.

It should be noted that the article in the Telegraph does not give the full story. Robot Arenas had not left it in an unlocked building, and Robot Arenas responded within 24hrs to a request to move the set following the handover of the site to new owners.

So theres 3 things wrong in what the judge said ? Locked building, response in 24 hours and value of the arena (the polycarb alone) waaay over 250 gbp.
Uk justice system = wow.

[john]

shame, was prob worth more then £11 000 in scrap (what robot arenas paid)

[stu]

LOL

[muchalucha]

this is really sad . Anyone fancy finding out if the polycarb was saved ?:P