Mad Metal Machines 14

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Mad Metal Machines 14

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For those interested, the registration site opened:

It is in English and German.
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maddox
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Re: Mad Metal Machines 14

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The kick-off for this event started friday 28 september around 4 pm.
Ellis (Relentless from the FRA forum) arrived with his parents, Peter and Tara, after a long travel in their motorhome, starting in Southern Spain. The purpose. Solving a nasty weapon-axle/sprocket problem.
It took more time and creativity than expected. But it was a fun thing to do. During these McGyvermonents, Raverdave arrived with his machines.

Babs had made a Bacon Explosion accompanied with warm cherries in thick syrup. A surpsingly tasty, but heavy dinner.

Leo arrived around 8pm, and this marked a movement of materials from the van to the house of Chaos and visa versa.

On with Tormenta II. A spare axle made from a screwdriver did prove hopeless. The steel got brittle as glass during the welding. So, no spare axle.
The McGyvered axle/1/4bsp nut did keep in 1 piece during the carefull tests.

Some small welding on Satanix 1.666, and we were ready for MMM14

7 am. Wake up call for all the people in the House of Chaos, and we were driving at 8am. Arriving at the venue around 11am.

Tina had made coffee and cake, as usual. And as usual those were delicious.
The arena was ready, just the last light fixtures going up.

12.07 the first ants got busy, and several good and hilarious fights later it was time for the Raptors.
Several hard figths , as Enigma with the small but nasty disk dished out a load of wacks. But Baltazar, another vertical -larger-disk wasn't nice either. Lucky for the opponents, the wheelbase is narrow, and the gyrodance capacity is huge. Dark Wizard, another small verical disk user wasn't as effective, but kept on going thanks to the sturdy carbon/kevlar armor.
Ltn Lee, as rambot, gave as good as it got, but did prove 10mm polycarbonate ain't up the task, not even in the 6 kg raptors. A few heavy hits on the steel frame made impressive gashes.*

Featherweights.
For us, Hannibalito 4 was going strange again. One flip hugely powerfull, sometimes even 2 or 3 good ones ,and then a lot of feeble weak lifts. Sometimes going into the fight, and not even 1 useable flip whatsoever. ?????
Hannibalito 3 on the other hand went out, and kicked butt. In the arena, fight a good fight. Take out of the arena, remove bottle, fill bottle, mount bottle and in the mean time recharge the batteries. 20 minutes later is's back for more. But this time we had "real" damage. Daredevil, a new German drum spinner got in a good lick, and one of the cosmetic ears got ripped off.

Result, Adrenaline stays German champ, Tormenta II came in second. Even with all the drivetroubles and weapon axle/sprocket that gave out after a few fights.




Maidstone , here we come.
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