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New Facebook group for Texas & mid-country roboteers.
« on: August 20, 2014, 10:44:24 PM »
https://www.facebook.com/groups/303491806487599/307049249465188/

I am not the administrator of this page, it was created by Corey Morris of Team Mech Monsters in Dallas, TX. He is trying to drum up interest in the sport in the area. Shoutouts to my main man Badnik96 for bringing this to my attention!  :gawe:

If you're in the area, please join the group. Maybe we can figure out some kind of regular (and potentially RFL-sanctioned) event in the North Texas area. I'm committed to showing up with as many old (and new) robots as I can bring with me.

Corey and I ended up having a "rivalry" at the SWARC events because the beetleweight division would inevitably become full of our creations and we'd end up fighting only each other most of the time. Here's some of our more memorable clashes:

Kill Switch v. Mutator (SWARC 6.0)

(PS: Watch those hazards.)

Kill Switch III vs. Son of Mutator (SWARC 8.0)

THE GLORIOUS RE-MATCH

Detonator vs. Buzz (SWARC 8.0)

:SFTW :SFTW :SFTW SPECIAL GUEST APPEARANCE BY QWERTYTHE300TH :SFTW :SFTW :SFTW


But yeah, do check out the group and offer support if you can. I've gotten in touch with the old crew and most of us are back on board for another shot. I'll be bringing back as many bots as I can, plus new ones if time permits me to build them. I posted it in one of the comments somewhere, but the bots I intend to bring include a selection from this list:

150g - Five-O (returning robot, or comparable rebuild of it)
150g - Treadator (new robot)
1lb - Keep Back 500 Feet (new rebuild, probably under a new name though)
1lb - Super Turbo Baby Puncher (returning robot, assuming I am able to obtain new gearboxes)
1lb - Razor Face (new robot)
3lb - Kill Switch V (returning robot)
3lb - Earthquake (returning robot)
3lb - Super Hammerhead (returning robot, originally competed in Battle Clash 2001)
3lb - Detonator (new rebuild, also probably under a different name)
12lb - Super Terminal Impact (returning robot, rebuild of 2001's Terminal Impact)
Open - Terminal Impact (returning robot, for show and demonstration only)
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Re: New Facebook group for Texas & mid-country roboteers.
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2014, 10:55:30 PM »
didnt you fight some of russ barrow's bots? i love his bots.

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Re: New Facebook group for Texas & mid-country roboteers.
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2014, 11:04:06 PM »
didnt you fight some of russ barrow's bots? i love his bots.

I did, I fought him in every weight class I competed in. Same design, too. I beat him sometimes?

I can't knock him for that too much since my UK Ant and US Ant robots were literally the same design too.  :gawe: But as a joke.
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Re: New Facebook group for Texas & mid-country roboteers.
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2014, 11:06:23 PM »
cool! he liked my documentary since i put footage of dark pounder in it.

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Re: New Facebook group for Texas & mid-country roboteers.
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2014, 12:13:10 AM »
Thank you for the notification on the SGA  <3


But yeah, If you're in the south (OK, FL, or something like that) And think you could make events. We could use all the help we can get to get the Robot Scene back
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Re: New Facebook group for Texas & mid-country roboteers.
« Reply #5 on: August 21, 2014, 04:13:24 AM »
yay, i always liked your robots rfs