2010 Featherweight UK Championships - 3 Days September

[xtreme]

Just got back home, We set off from Yeovil about 1ish but we decided to go to south wales to go to KFC, then back to england then to north wales for no reason at all then to manchester and finally back home. Anyways congratulations to Alex for winning the 2010 featherweight UK championship, Congratulations to John for coming 2nd and Congratulations thank you to Gary for getting 3rd and getting a spinner onto the podium again.
Good event eh?
P.S The chicken in Wales tastes exactly the same as the chicken in England.

[geeza]

Well done to Alex and Zack on thier wins.

I had a very mixed weekend, the dragster didn't even get started, Asgard wouldn't work properly. I did get DB5 working well in the end, thanks to John Bell for the use of his Nicads, but I think it now has to be officially retired mainly due to damage from Sam's nasty spinner thing which was very impressive. Every robot has its day, 3 and a half years it has been going over 200 fights, most it seems against the spinners. It has fought middleweights and Thz(minus the axe) and survived them all. I could keep it going but every single bolt would need tightening after each fight so seems pointless.

I must say a huge thank you to all of the Robo Challenge crew for sorting out and managing to keep things running smoothly on all fronts with very little sleep. The social seen was great, even though I missed the human bowling on Sat night. I really wasn't looking forward to going due to rushing to try and get things finished in time I was starting to loose the will to go on. But I am glad I attended was a great event, and good to see folks we don't see very often.

[RogueTwoRobots]

Maaaaaaan, what a weekend!

Got back in the door at 7pm this evening and I'm looking forward to sleeping in a bed that's not a Travelodge or sub-zero campsite (throw another lipo on the fire please )
But tiredness aside...

WELL DONE ALEX
Congrats on taking the big one home, a well-deserved performance from Tiny Toon throughout the competition! Also many congratulations to John and Tom for taking the runner-up spot and to Gary and his tough-as-nails Boner for claiming third place. I should have set up some sort of performance royalty payment scheme when I sold it
Have to give Juggernaut a mention too; it doesn't look it but that is one tough robot. Stood up well to some incredible impacts from the spinners.

In the Annihilator, it was a close one but congratulations Zak for pipping me to the top spot
I'll work out some way to pin down that machine

Thanks to the Robo Challenge guys once again for their tireless and monumental effort in organising and hosting the championships alongside the drag racing. I think the whole weekend went off without a hitch really, ran very smoothly and had the perfect mix between robots and racing. Really enjoyed the social side of things too, from the lithium battery 'safety tests' to the human bowling. I'm impressed no one was injured
Also thanks to Graeme for lending me a drill motor when mine burnt out and I realised I hadn't packed any spares, Dave for donating the brushless motor/gearbox and speedo, Ed for lending me several Nyloc nuts used in a bid to keep my weapon together and Gary for letting me hammer my shaft with his rubber mallet several times over the weekend

Got a few things to improve on Drumroll 2 but overall I'm pretty happy at how it handles and performs (suicidal gyro-dancing aside) so will hopefully put on a better show next time.

Pictures can be found here: http://s31.photobucket.com/albums/c367/ ... ps%202010/
Videos will hopefully be up soon but I've got ten 'pages' of vids on my camera and each page has nine videos so if you do the maths then I'm sure you'll understand that it could take a while

[beast]

I must say thank you to all of the Robo Challenge crew (now go get some sleep!!!)

Thank you to Tom for taking over the driving sorry it drove slow

well done to Gary for 3rd place
And a big thank you to Ed for taking me home.

may see you all next year

[beast]

Oh yeah forgot well done Alex (did do this on purpus lol)
theres only one way to go now thats down

[craig_colliass]

Hi All

Congratulations Alex on a convincing performance,
Also well done John and Tom for taking the runner-up spot and to Gary for third place.
Juggernaut coming forth very well done.

From an engineering perspective, I was pleased how well Seraph held up to the spinner attacks, the wheels are only 8mm HDPE (RG1000) one time Sam's nasty spinney thing hit Seraph, and left the arena! Now Seraph is more reliable I am expecting it to win the odd whiteboard next year.
Tron worked Perfectly until it's last fight when the Wotty 100 speedo decided to let off some magic smoke! only one side works now. Well done Trevor you won that fight before the speedo blew.

I have to say many thanks to all the Robo Challenge team, a great effort and their ride on racer looked great too.

[sam_smith]

A big thanks to all the robo challenge crew for all the hours of effort you put in to make it such a great event.
Proper champs atmosphere from start to finish.

Well done to the winners and runners up it was a tough draw for all of you especially Juggernaut.

After the intense hours trying to bodge NST together including around 41 hours without sleep from thurs morning I was totally expecting it to break on the first hit. Delighted that it kept going for several battles.
Thanks to the teams that helped me fix it especially teams Juggernaut, big nipper and scorpion.

gotta say i'm converted to the feather weight class, i can't remember an event as fun ever. Just gotta try and keep the thing in the arena next time!

I've got a couple of vids which i'll stick on utube if I get a chance to set up an account on it.

[blazerbotics]

Well done to all the winners over the weekend, im still thawing out from the saturday night in the tent. Had good fun with the dragster on the sunday, especially seeing as im the roboteer who got theirs to work :P more engines next year i think! Alpha still lives, so looks like im going have to drag it out again next year as well, i did give Sam a good chance to finish it off but his wimpy spinner couldn't manage it

[typhoon_driver]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-11430203

Ok, who's the funny guy!?

I wanted to wait until I felt a bit more human before posting but sod it. 1001 miles in a transit later I got home with a nice shiny trophy and some new tools. I couldn't believe how well boner held up after throwing it in numerous fights outside the main competition!

Congrats to all the winners, it was definately one of the best events I've been to and one of the hardest faught! Can't wait to see the footage.

A huge thanks and well done to the robochallenge crew. You guys always manage to throw a great party and I'm only too happy to drive the length of the country to come have some fun

To anyone that I kept awake on the camp site with drinking games and drunken rambling.......well it's to be expected now

[razerdave]

Hey guys

I've uploaded a few videos to youtube of the champs, should upload more in the next few days, but in the meantime:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYyru4gQD4k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgqS-_ldmQ8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90jfcotkSk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foG-_AM6A7E

And a link to my pics:

http://s46.photobucket.com/albums/f113/razerdave/