2011 Robo Challenge UK Championships. April 15-17, NEC

[ady]

it belongs to robochallenge

[craig_colliass]

As always many thanks to The Robo Challenge crew for all there efforts in making the featherweight Champs happen, great event well done guys.
Congratulations to all the winners especially Alex for getting the Annihilator prize, the final was a close fought battle that went to the judges gripping stuff.
Great to see everyone again see you at the next one.

[typhoon_driver]

Great event, a lot of fun

Glad that i made the top 10 again with boner and for the first time ever have a working battery pack when i came home. Just a shame i blew the castle creations brushless speedo

Big thanks to all the robochallenge guys for the event and to dave and sam for letting me crash at theirs and congrats to the winners

[kane]

I agree with Mouldy about Judging. It was a very bad call with the judges decision in the anihilator semi. I think the rules about going in the Pit have to be made very clear. I think a majority of the people at the event disagreed with what happened, And I liked how when a load of people argued the fact that the decision was wrong the comback we got was a judges decision is final .

1. It was made very clear at the beginning of the annihilator that going in the pit was instant knockout.
2. Tiny Toon stopped moving after NST went into the pit. Either way NST would have been counted out first.

[Laser]

I wish I had gone =(

[kane]

Official Results now online here.

[teamshock]

Thanks to everyone at Robochallenge for an excellent UK Championships!!

Well done for Mark and Little Flipper for a well deserved win, Michael and Explosion for coming second and also Alex and Tiny Toon for winning the annihilator.

Inertia did far better than expected for its first outing coming 3rd overall, it caused more damage than it recieved and the playoff with Little Spinner 4 was one of the most fun (and scariest ) fights i've had in a long time

Heatwave also did well making the top 10 but had an unlucky draw against LS4 and it became clear my welding was not as good as i hoped

As for Whirlpool (aka Ringpiece) i think the less said about that the better.

Thanks again to everyone for a great event and well done to all the winners!

[PJ-27]

I'd like to say thanks to everyone that helped organise this event and all of the other teams that helped us get Bitza running and into the top 15!

Dan and myself had an awesome weekend, and the fight against LS4 was a major highlight! As was Explosion flipping us a full 5 rotations before leaving the arena in the Play-Offs.

We've got a few vids which I'll post links to soon.

[teamshock]

I have started to upload some videos to youtube which can be found here http://www.youtube.co.uk/willteamocean

Here's one to get started which I like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVvPXT5PCeY

[Mouldy]

Kane;

watch the video- Tiny toon hit the floor dead before NST went in the pit.

The judge told me his deffinition of in the pit before the first round... if one wheel is out of the pit- your not in the pit...if both wheels are in the pit, you are classed as in the pit

NST only had one wheel in the pit...