AWS34 Reading March 12th 2011

earthwormjim · Post by **earthwormjim** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:27 pm

Yup. Great fun.Well done to all the winnwers,and to Dave for organising such a great event.

Post by **BeligerAnt** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:49 pm

Nice to see such a huge turnout of ants. Thanks to Dave for staying calm in the face of 63 ants

All the results at:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g0xan/aws34/

Enjoy!

Jonny · Post by **Jonny** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 8:49 pm

i agree, great event

shame about the catastrophic failure of all of my robots though

i'll try to get mgm4 going for aws 35. thanks pete for letting me drive servANT!

also thanks dave for running an awesome event and for the hitec ranger 3

Team Orr · Post by **Team Orr** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:12 pm

Sorry Haz, i forgot about the RX, whats the next event your going too? as if im going i could drop it off there. or alternatively you could PM me your address and i could send it back via post if its needed urgently.

my videos will be on my youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/teamorr96

my video of the the fleaweight world series is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DgAzmAg ... ideo_title

Jack
Team Orr

haz · Post by **haz** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:15 pm

probably the roaming robots at the 02, if not pontifract

bitternboy · Post by **bitternboy** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:05 pm

Sorry for leaving early without really telling anyone BTW. It was a great event and I certainly did better than I expected with no major robot faults (except maybe one) and I thoroughly enjoyed the whole thing. By the way did you do any other awards and if so who won them?

razerdave · Post by **razerdave** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 10:14 pm

There were a few awards, and in fact one of them was for you and your driving, and you missed it !

I'm sure dave will post it to you.

I am well chuffed about winning the fleas, though I need more driving practice with my ants.

Well done to Dave for running the event so smoothly

joey_picus · Post by **joey_picus** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:03 pm

I second the event running comments, it was all really well done and thanks to everyone involved

sets a high bar for Pontefract...

The event was a bit bittersweet for me since although I had a fantastic time (and fourth out of 63 for Jigsaw isn't at all bad ^_^) I do have a lot of repair work to do - Jigsaw needs a new gearbox and servo and some serious polishing, and Catatonia needs new armour entirely (although it performed far better with taped down shell and bent wedge than in its intended configuration!). Hopefully it should all be done by the SAC though.

Thanks to everyone for being excellent company as ever and especially to Jim for his involvement in Catatonic Octopus

and very well done to Will for a deserved win, Dan for a runner up spot, Peter for doing very well and of course Dave Weston for a brilliant fleaweight win ^^

razerdave · Post by **razerdave** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 11:58 pm

A few memorable bits from the event:

First 4-way antweight cluster (Fun with Bugs)

Oliver asking 'Has dave (lawrie) stopped playing with himself ?'

Me (to Dave L): 'Is that Acetate on the front ?'
Dave L: 'Its not acetate its sellotape !'

All the clusterbot wins

The standard and destruction in the fleas was fantastic

Just a note so say well done to Jonathon and Chris for their respective 1st and 2nd in the warm up

Team Orr · Post by **Team Orr** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:16 am

if we're on the subject of funny quotes:

Dave L: Rhys you (duff) have sunk even lower than when you were last here...

Dave L: Thats (deathbed) the worst spinner i have ever seen!
Dave W: I dont know, what about yours?
Dave L: Touche

Dave W: so who have you drawn?
Chris: Valliant
Crowd: BWAHAHAHAHA!

Dave L: Go on the Green one!
*Green one gets immediately flipped*

oh and me, Joey and Dave's "philosophical" discussion about god being everywhere

Dave, Robot Roulette was great, we should definatly do it again