Author Topic: Robots Live - Heavyweight UK Championships - Deeside - 21st & 22nd September (Read 51699 times)

Vertigo · « **Reply #220 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.

powerrave · « **Reply #221 on:** April 16, 2012, 02:03:38 PM »

Quite some damage in that fight. Damn.

RammingSpeed · « **Reply #222 on:** April 16, 2012, 04:28:01 PM »

Hang on, how well did Drumroll do in this? That thing's a beast.

Conraaa · « **Reply #223 on:** April 17, 2012, 01:49:18 AM »

Drumroll got 11 points out of a possible 12 and ended up coming eighth overall.

Conraaa · « **Reply #224 on:** April 26, 2012, 11:44:42 AM »

Good news: voting for the awards for the UK FW Champs 2012 is up. The bad news? You have to be a FRA member to vote. That narrows it down to a handful of people here then. Me included.
Click Here

Here's a template you can use if you want to say who you would have voted for if you don't have FRA membership.

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Best Design Award:
540
Carcinus
Explosion
Murphies Law

Best Engineered Robot Award
Cobalt
NST
LS4
Venom

Best Newcomer
Galactus
Flow
Cobalt
TS2

Best Driver Award
Grant Cooper (Little Hitter 2)
John Findlay (Beauty 3)
Trevor Wright (Mini Mighty Mouse)
Will Thomas (Intertia XL)

Most Innovative Robot Award
Flow (Most powerful featherweight flipper)
LF3 (First electric flipper)
Tormenta (Innovative use of materials)

Outstanding Achievement Award
Team Beast - The only team to reach the knockout stages in every UK Championships with an unrivalled achievement record.
Team Big Nipper - Always pushing the boundaries of what is possible to build in the FW category. Builders of incredible robots.
Team Tiberius - The first spinner to win the UK Championships since Robot Wars. Incredible engineering and reliability.

Here are my votes.

Best Design Award:
Explosion

Best Engineered Robot Award
Cobalt

Best Newcomer
Cobalt

Best Driver Award
Trevor Wright (Mini Mighty Mouse)

Most Innovative Robot Award
Flow (Most powerful featherweight flipper)

Outstanding Achievement Award
Team Big Nipper - Always pushing the boundaries of what is possible to build in the FW category. Builders of incredible robots.

Vertigo · « **Reply #225 on:** April 26, 2012, 11:53:33 AM »

Whoops, bit late this time :P

Anyone going to Burgess Hill this weekend?

Quote from: Conraaa on April 26, 2012, 11:44:42 AM

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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

TheDerpedOne · « **Reply #226 on:** April 26, 2012, 12:21:16 PM »

For once, I'm going with a (Hopefully) Working robot.

ty4er · « **Reply #227 on:** April 26, 2012, 12:33:36 PM »

uh i think that might be too far but i'll see

haz · « **Reply #228 on:** April 26, 2012, 12:57:15 PM »

wtf? how the bloody

was Murphy's Law even in the best design catogory, its barely designed atall let alone best.
my vote has been cast, the robot i voted for has an "e" in its name

Vertigo · « **Reply #229 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

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #230 on:** April 30, 2012, 10:32:58 AM »

I would but my parents are in New York, so I can't get there...
Maybe if G.K. decides to go.

haz · « **Reply #231 on:** May 01, 2012, 09:42:35 AM »

yesh. of coursh i am going

Vertigo · « **Reply #232 on:** May 05, 2012, 12:56:45 PM »

Sitting in a Premier Inn ATM =)

Mecha · « **Reply #233 on:** May 05, 2012, 01:06:49 PM »

This robot contest looks awesome, too bad i can't build though. :/

haz · « **Reply #234 on:** May 05, 2012, 01:39:17 PM »

thats never stopped me

Mecha · « **Reply #235 on:** May 05, 2012, 01:50:36 PM »

If i ever do build robots it would probably be antweights. :D

Tweedy · « **Reply #236 on:** May 05, 2012, 02:10:40 PM »

thats all i've built so far ( but i'm building a feathrweight ) and i've had fun doing it, its relatively simple to do as well.

Squirrel_Monkey · « **Reply #237 on:** May 05, 2012, 02:57:03 PM »

Nope can't go tomorrow, no transport.

Vertigo · « **Reply #238 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...

Philippa · « **Reply #239 on:** May 13, 2012, 06:39:28 AM »

If I get all the bits for Stratos fixed I'm going to Edinburgh.
Anybody else going?