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« on: June 21, 2012, 02:35:51 PM »
The version of Matilda in that one competition doesn't count - it's a replica.
Well, the shell used was one actually made pre-series one for Matilda. A few shell were made so that it could be quickly repaired if broken etc. I believe the one on Matilda now was owned by one of the roboteers (possibly Alan Gribble), but the rest of the robot is not the same.
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« on: June 02, 2012, 11:53:31 PM »
As a fair warning, It's quite likely judging on the past of these events that Little Hitter will turn up.
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« on: June 02, 2012, 02:57:07 AM »
nah, that'll probably be fine, look at inertia
Actually Will told me a couple of months ago that the motor has been hit a few times, and he's designing a new one with the motor inside the robot. Mike look's like he's got the motor slightly better guarded though.
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« on: May 30, 2012, 03:15:25 PM »
It looks to be pointing the wrong way. Also, what's that obscure skull-shaped thing in the middle for?
It appears to me that the 'skull' piece is the disk and the other pieces are part of the frame.
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« on: May 29, 2012, 11:57:53 AM »
Sounds good :)
The only criticism I have is the inclusion of Lightning and Tornado, given that they haven't competed since 2003/2004.
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« on: May 21, 2012, 11:25:20 AM »
lol Anyway, thanks guys :) And NFX, I C what U did there  Though frankly, that jokes getting old now, "Have an eruptive day" would have been more original :P
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« on: May 13, 2012, 02:22:31 PM »
What are the best combat robotics sites to refer to when looking for local competitions? United States would be most important to me, but other countries would be good for other members. Whenever I google search I get a ton of dead links and old expired crap.
UK: fightingrobots.co.uk robotwars101.org roamingrobots.co.uk robotslive.co.uk robochallenge.co.uk Obviously, I'm not so sure about the US, but I would have thought that the FRL is a good place to start. EDIT: Topic stickied
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« on: May 13, 2012, 12:45:10 PM »
WBC is in no state to fight at the moment, and is in the hands of Team Hydra, who aren't showing any signs of renovating it.
Mortis, was definitely in hands of Team Bud, and as with WBC, needs work doing to it. I think they did have plans of re-building it, but at the time their priorities were tied in Envy and Thor. They've recently bought Kan-Opener and have started building a new robot Full Tilt, so it seems likely that they may have sold it. Not too sure who to though, though seems logical that it would have gone to Kane Aston/Ant Pritchard.
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« on: May 13, 2012, 09:04:25 AM »
That event has been running for the past two years :P
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« on: May 12, 2012, 05:29:26 PM »
Update to this thread, and it's even better because I can moderate it now :P Anyways, Guildford in a few weeks time. There's also Edinburgh a week before that, but due to the fact that it isn't a 'full' event and the fact that a lot of people can't go, I'm skipping it. FYI, you can now view all upcoming UK events on the frontpage of http://www.fightingrobots.co.uk/So we'll be at Guildford (again), last full event in Eruption's first year! Can't believe how quickly time flies. Pretty gutted that we can't go to Edinburgh, falls horribly in the middle of Maths GCSE's. Still there's an upcoming event in MANCHESTER, a holy 20 minutes from my house, and one in Leeds, and quite a few booked past September and *potentially* the UK champs over the summer. Gonna be a busy few months :P Not that it's ever any different...
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« on: May 07, 2012, 10:29:28 AM »
Links are a pain in the neck, we tape ours in and they still fall out sometimes.
If it weren't for links, I'd be UK champion by now.
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« on: May 05, 2012, 12:56:45 PM »
Sitting in a Premier Inn ATM =)
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« on: May 01, 2012, 02:26:08 AM »
Yea. Killer Robots Was Weak. But Robot Combat Is Dying. And Killer Robots Rose The Sport's Popularity. So Any Robot Show, Im Taking It And Running.
robot combat isn't growing, if anything it's rising in popularity. Its just not on tv much anymore
What?
We haven't had any new "serious" roboteers over here for years!
We may not have had any "serious" rooters but we have had a lot of people like me that do it for fun and don't take it seriously and just do it as a hobby
But unfortunately, none of these people seem to be moving on to a feather, and decent featherweights seems to be what we are seriously lacking at the minute.
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« on: April 30, 2012, 10:28:27 AM »
Anyone going to Aylesbury this weekend? There was a fair few of you last year.
We've got to stick a regulator in Eruption for health and safety :P
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« on: April 30, 2012, 10:25:32 AM »
Yea. Killer Robots Was Weak. But Robot Combat Is Dying. And Killer Robots Rose The Sport's Popularity. So Any Robot Show, Im Taking It And Running.
robot combat isn't growing, if anything it's rising in popularity. Its just not on tv much anymore
What? We haven't had any new "serious" roboteers over here for years!
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« on: April 26, 2012, 11:53:33 AM »
Whoops, bit late this time :P Anyone going to Burgess Hill this weekend? Best Design Award:
540
Carcinus
Explosion
Murphies Law
Here are my votes.
Best Design Award:
Explosion
Well, you were hardly going to vote Murphies Law were you! (Only joking Haz :P) Guess who I'm voting for :P
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« on: April 24, 2012, 12:55:28 PM »
My best bet was that the production company gutted them for parts and that the parts ended up in some other animatronic creation for another TV show.
That is very likely considering that all they had to sell Jonno was the shell of Matilda. They didn't even have the tusks. Apart from that, none of us know what has happened, but what SKBT said is probably the most likely outcome. yeah there is still matilda running as the featherweight house robot but there is a mr psycho style house robot called major damage that runs as the heavyweight house robot and they did a have a growler style robot called gripper but the shell was recently sold and is to become a heavyweight.
robots live uses a bot that has the same shape and body as dead metal but with pincers and a hammer that runs as a featherweight house robot
None of these have any connection to Robot Wars whatsoever. The only remaining part of Matilda is the shell, the rest is a completely different robot. There were actually two versions of gripper, one was a featherweight house robot about 6 or 7 years ago, but it was scrapped very quickly and a heavyweight house-robot version was made for the 2007 UK champs. This was also scrapped, and the parts from this were used to build Major Damage, along with parts from other robots, such as Tilly 101. Battle axe was based on the first version of Dead Metal with the overhead saw, but for obvious health and safety reasons they used a pathetically weak powered hammer instead. Unlike on robot wars, the plain purpose of our house robots these days is to provide a show, none can to any sort of damage whatsoever to a robot (except perhaps a very badly built feather), unlike on robot wars where they could actually do some damage. If anything they are just a nuisance in blocking your view to your robot! The reason for this is that the show relies on robots, and due to the low amount of "entertaining robots" around these days, event organisers cannot afford to be breaking any. There are certainly very few entertaining (or "good") feathwerweights these days and this is mostly the reason that Matilda is so pathetic. I certainly know that Explosion and several other feathers can absolutely pulverize it :P
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« on: April 16, 2012, 02:00:10 PM »
I must say I am absolutely gutted to come so close yet again and just miss out on the title, and this year have days worth of repairs to do. To make matter's even harsher, I broke NST's spinner on the hit that knocked out our link.
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« on: April 16, 2012, 01:38:40 PM »
Ooft...at least it resembles a robot. Who was he fighting against there?
Against NST in the final Always the bride's maid
Atleast I didn't come last like you!
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« on: April 14, 2012, 01:23:25 PM »
It still works 
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