Roaming Robots Event Aylesbury 22nd May

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 7:18 pm

Thanks Mr Stu.

I have signed up as well. The cheque's in the post.

Simon

Marco Roberts · Post by **Marco Roberts** » Sun Apr 03, 2005 11:42 am

Hmm this event does sound interesting. And as I have been to a few RR events I think really we should go to this one.
I dont mind buying a few of those freqs and carefully lending them out to ant weight competitors before every fight. Thing is ant weights do pull crowds. Any one remember microbots. There was a huge amount of spectators watching us. And RR just havnt really seen many people draw to it. Another day was War of the Worlds, during a break loads of people got out of there seats and started wandering round and found the ant weight arena and just started watching it. And at this event it was like only 3 ant weights there. I really beleve at these events if we go in numbers and start putting advertisments like a website we can get some fan factor here.
Il defo put my name down to go to this one.

mrstu · Post by **mrstu** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 6:29 pm

Marco - "RR just havnt really seen many people draw to it. "

It's very much the other way. At our "Winter Tour Final", Mike from team "Wind Power" (Pressure" brought his ant weight arena which looks good, with flipper and pit etc, and we had only 4 ant weights as some Heavy Weight/Feather Weight teams brought them to play with in hotel rooms etc. Well we had the arena so we thought we may as well run them during the show. At our BIG shows like the Winter Tour and Magna, Ant Weights are great to run in between loading and unloading the big new Roaming Robots arena, which can take up to 10 minutes per big battle.
At the Winter Tour Grand Final in Doncaster like i said we had the arena and ant weights - with 1500 members of the public (thats more people than there was at a live show of Robot Wars Filming Series 7 mind you - they were only 1200), it was both great and a nightmare to have 100's of peole rush over from their teared seating rushing down to the ant weight arena. The roboteers got a REAL BUZZ from it with 100's (about 400) people crowding around the arena. We know the public love the ant weights and we have always offered ant weights to come to our events, including our big winter tour (which we plan to do again this year).
Now we have a production company linked to us, they have lots of high tech stuff for us to use, including big plasma screens which im sure we cna use for the Ant Weights, also a big projector which helps us show the Heavy Weight fights from the big arena on the screen, imagen that cam on the ant arena, means everyone in the crowd will be able to see them (all 1500 of them).

Things are looking good, and just hope Roaming Robots can continue to further bond the relationship with ant weight roboteers. In the past we just havn't had the support back to continue to push them, but if we can see this amount of interest of ant weights at are other events, it can lead to big things. We now have the tech support, tv's cams, and now it looks like you can have your own 5 Frequeinces to do what you like as you please.

Just a note - the Event is 95% full, we are 100% full of Heavy Weights and Feather Weights, we can accept 2 more Ant Weight teams and thats it - so if you havn't signed up - i advise you to do so right now.

John Findlay (director of RR) is very happy of the out come so far, so am i as i know or have meet most of you. Lets hope things can move forward in a great way.

Mr Stu
Roaming Robots Crew
www.roamingrobots.co.uk

Rhys · Post by **Rhys** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:06 pm

Looks like this could be a very cool event then. Just signed up now. Cheque's in the post

I was a little dissapointed at the sign-up catagories though. I wanted on in each weight, but several ants. Still, nevermind. I'll just upgrade when I get my new feather finished.

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:52 pm

We have joined up and signed up for the event.

Also managed to get hold of some 40.665 Hitec xtals. It seems that Hitec don't make 40.705 (for some reason!), so that one sounds like Futaba-only...

mrstu · Post by **mrstu** » Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:14 am

We are now full up with ant weights. If anyone else really really wants to come id advise them to email "Events" from our contact page, but we really are full now.

More details going on the web site during next week (list of teams/robots) etc and information email number 1 of 2 is due out this week.

Kind Regards,
Mr Stu
Roaming Robots Crew
www.roamingrobots.co.uk

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:45 am

I have just got an email showing the details and entry list

http://roamingrobots.co.uk/events2005_aylesbury.htm

Ant Weights
Antyb
VX
MilitANT
Anticyclone Ant
Combatant
Antrax
Mutant
Electra
Dynamite
R.O.N.N.Y.
RampAnt
AntLifter
Duff
TNT
Wizzy Von Crush
Snow-Shifter
Winner
Anticide
ICant
Anticipation

There are more ants then there are feathers

, could be a fun day.

Simon Windisch · Post by **Simon Windisch** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:02 pm

OK, I asked Mr Stu and he says that we antweights can run our own competition.

I would suggest that we try and compete in the gaps between featherweight battles, and that we try to keep battling all day (i.e from 11:00 til 3:00) and so therefore save full combat for approx 1:30pm, and that we contact all the antweight teams and arrange a consensus between us on how we'll do things.

I've filled in some names...

Code: Select all

Antyb 	            Anthony Pritchard
VX 	                Anthony Pritchard
MilitANT        	Peter Waller
Anticyclone      	Peter Waller
Combatant        	Peter Waller
Antrax          	Peter Waller
Mutant           	Peter Waller
Electra         	Simon Windisch
Dynamite        	Simon Windisch
R.O.N.N.Y.        	Gary Aylward
RampAnt 	        Gary Aylward
AntLifter 	        Gary Aylward
Duff 	            Rhys Williams
TNT 	            Rhys Williams
Wizzy Von Crush 	don't know
Snow-Shifter     	don't know
Winner 	            don't know
Anticide 	        Andrew Hibberd
ICant 	            Andrew Hibberd
Anticipation     	don't know

Can anyone fill in the don't knows, and does anyone know Anthony Pritchard so that we can bring him in to this forum to discuss how we're going to run the day?

We also need to work out if there's going to be power, and if we can get protection from the weather if it rains. Any ideas?

Andrew_Hibberd · Post by **Andrew_Hibberd** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:39 pm

Simon Anticipation is my new ant, i would expect there to be a covered area for the pits and display as the featherweights won't like being rainned on.

mrstu · Post by **mrstu** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 3:21 pm

Simon W i'll be sending you an email soon with Email address for the Ant Weights you do not have contact details for. If you want to sort out your battle plans etc now, i can add it to the big email we send out 3 days before the event to make sure we know all ant weight roboteers know whats going on etc.

The pits for the Feather Weights and Ant Weights are under 2 big marquees, if not more. The feather arena is not covered - if it rains (it didn't last year) but if it rains, then FW's wont run, or only if they want to. It was very sunny last time to be honest. But the pits and im sure the Ant Weight arena will fit under the covers we have being provided for us. Yes there is power. Something like 5 Plugs worth which we use lots of exstentions to split for everyone, i'd advise you to bring your own exstentions as well, just in case.

Kind Regards,
Mr Stu.
www.roamingrobots.co.uk