AWS 58
Well, AWS 58 proved very successful for Team Zero, and much to my surprise I’m now an AWS winner!
Six months ago RBMK was no more than a mad idea in my head that I was less than 50% sure would even work at all, and now it’s the champion of an event that is normally dominated by wedges, flippers, and the occasional vertical spinner. Honestly I still can’t quite believe it.
It had a great run, dishing out plenty of damage along the way (hey Dominus), but it wasn’t all smooth sailing. During it’s group fight against Error.3xe it sustained damage to one of its main spinner motors, which meant that for the rest of the event it struggled to move normally, and in the first fight of the final Trigger broke both the small vertical spinners. By the last fight it was barely working at all. I don’t really remember the final but I think it was fairly even, with both bots taking damage, but in the end RBMK kept going and managed to hang in there just long enough to take the title. Hooray!
Valkyrie and Zero also had a good tournament, Zero picked up a standard 3 wins, including one that must have been over in 2 seconds flat. Valkyrie has a great event, winning it’s group, and going undefeated (not including a nominated loss against RBMK) until being eliminated by Trigger in the third place fight.
A great event by Chris again, with lots of excellent bots, my particular favourite was Dave Weston’s new drum spinner Baphomet, I’m just glad I didn’t have to face it.
Already looking forward to attempting to defend the title in Sheffield!
and the hardened steel blades should hold up for longer without going blunt. The chassis is being remade of high strength 6082 aluminium rather than crappy 1050 (I didn't want to waste the good stuff on such a stupid design 
), and the overall build will be tidied up to my usual standards, it's going to be a beast!
