RW III cancelled
Graham
up on Friday 29th.
It seems a technician got his foot damaged by a robot ?
Presume they will now review health & safety issues - lets hope it gets
resurrected.
We were ready to go !
Graham - bolt from the blue
John Benton
the robot wars forum (www.robotwars.co.uk)
http://www.robotwars.co.uk/forum/messages/346/756.html?MondayOctober25199909
58pm
"Graham" <gf...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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rob
andy the pugh
> Nope - Friday was on, so was Saturday and Sunday.... so far....
Indeed. Things dragged on a bit as the Mentorn people spent saturday
sitting on their elbows, but they cleared thread 2 heat one by midday
sunday and started on the thread 1 backlog.
I wasn't complaining, it gave us chance to get the 'bot working. The
interference in the arena was dreadful though, we only had any vestige
of control in the Death Mewtal zone, and cowering behind it didn't
really cut it as a tactic. They turned off the ranks of angle grinders
round the arena in later heats after complaints.
The accident involved a robot going out of control and impaling a
technician through the foot, the sort of thing which is best avoided
anyway.
Finals day has been moved to Tuesday 26th.
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ap
Chris Butler
wasn't till 7.00pm thursday night we were filmed!!
Chris
Graham <gf...@globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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Adam Clark
Nope, just some elements have been postponed/delayed/cancelled etc. Info
on the official site and more to follow after post-production meetings
etc.
Adam
Graham wrote:
>
> I understand that the series is cancelled and we've been told not to turn
> up on Friday 29th.
>
> It seems a technician got his foot damaged by a robot ?
>
> Presume they will now review health & safety issues - lets hope it gets
> resurrected.
> We were ready to go !
>
> Graham - bolt from the blue
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"andy the pugh" <a.c....@shef.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> rob <gl...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I wasn't complaining, it gave us chance to get the 'bot working. The
> interference in the arena was dreadful though, we only had any vestige
> of control in the Death Mewtal zone, and cowering behind it didn't
> really cut it as a tactic. They turned off the ranks of angle grinders
> round the arena in later heats after complaints.
Hmmm. that might explain why our bot appeared to die for no
apparent reason (post mortem revealed no problems)
> The accident involved a robot going out of control and impaling a
> technician through the foot, the sort of thing which is best avoided
> anyway.
We went out Wednesday Morning.... when did it all happen? we
left about 3.30pm after hanging around.
andy the pugh
> > The accident involved a robot going out of control and impaling a
> > technician through the foot, the sort of thing which is best avoided
> > anyway.
>
> We went out Wednesday Morning.... when did it all happen? we
> left about 3.30pm after hanging around.
I don't know much more than that. Wednesday afternoon seems most likely
seeing as you missed it.
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ap
Greg Middleton
wrote:
>a few minutes after you posted this message, this announcement appeared on
>the robot wars forum (www.robotwars.co.uk)
>
>http://www.robotwars.co.uk/forum/messages/346/756.html?MondayOctober25199909
>58pm
The loss of one days filming seems to have given them an excuse to
cancel all the classes they aren't really interested in from a TV
point of view. No mention of compensation of any kind for the teams
that have spent lots of time and money on them.
The excuse that they can't extend the filming by 1 day seems only to
prove their incompetance at organising a major event, surely they
should have booked the studio for at least one extra day ?. Surely
with an event as complex as this a delay of some kind could have been
predicted ?.
Greg
Greg Middleton
pugh) wrote:
>The
>interference in the arena was dreadful though, we only had any vestige
>of control in the Death Mewtal zone, and cowering behind it didn't
>really cut it as a tactic. They turned off the ranks of angle grinders
>round the arena in later heats after complaints.
>
>The accident involved a robot going out of control and impaling a
>technician through the foot, the sort of thing which is best avoided
>anyway.
If the bot went out of control due to radio interference then surely
Mentorn must take some of the blame. Last years contest was marred by
robots being jammed by noise from the set and they seem not to have
learnt anything from it, not even that motors in angle grinders need
suppression !.
Greg
andy the pugh
Middleton) wrote:
>The excuse that they can't extend the filming by 1 day seems only to
>prove their incompetance at organising a major event, surely they
>should have booked the studio for at least one extra day ?.
Possibly not, they have to clear out to let the Spice Girls use it.
I can see that combining the two might make good TV though...
nozza
wrote:
>On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:33:10 GMT, gr...@nospam-deepseaplc.com (Greg
Yeah - If we hack them up real good, there may even be a medal in
it...
>
>
Graham
heavyweight battle and it was that that was cancelled. Sorry if ppl thort
the lot was cancelled.
Still all our work was for nought - see you another time Cassius !
Graham - bolt from the blue
Adam Clark <ad...@dataark.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
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Jonathan Drain
> I understand that the series is cancelled and we've been told not to turn
> up on Friday 29th.
WHAT?!? No way! I mean, this year is the first time a robot has been entered
from Northern Ireland, and it's pretty kewl, nice green thing with a
mortis-type blade, it even got on the Northern Ireland news and all..
> It seems a technician got his foot damaged by a robot ?
> Presume they will now review health & safety issues - lets hope it gets
> resurrected.
Huh? Yeah, it must be, there's NO WAAY they can cancel the show?! I wanna
see Cassius 2...
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andy the pugh
> WHAT?!? No way! I mean, this year is the first time a robot has been entered
> from Northern Ireland,
Are you sure? Where was Nemesis from?
> and it's pretty kewl, nice green thing with a
> mortis-type blade, it even got on the Northern Ireland news and all.
Weld-Or? .
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ap
Gary Pike
Zulu nearly beat me up for hassling Jay for our pass badges, although he did
sign a bit of red fur for my wife.
andy the pugh <a.c....@shef.ac.uk> wrote in message
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andy the pugh
> Don't start that one, they'll crucify you. Dublin in Southern Ireland.
Ooops. They were acting like old frinds in the hotel on friday night, I
assumed they knew each other.
What is an Irish robot doing in UK RobotWars?
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ap
Jonathan Drain
> > WHAT?!? No way! I mean, this year is the first time a robot has been
entered
> > from Northern Ireland,
> Are you sure? Where was Nemesis from?
Dublin. Ireland, yeah, but not Northern Ireland..!
> > and it's pretty kewl, nice green thing with a
> > mortis-type blade, it even got on the Northern Ireland news and all.
> Weld-Or? .
I can't remember the name of it, but it might be "Weld-Or", it was made by a
welding company and cost £2000.
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> What is an Irish robot doing in UK RobotWars?
Well, there's no Irish Robot Wars, is there? :)
There's an unofficial Robot Wars Northern Ireland though, which is me and my
remote controlled toy car, vs a teddybear, but I closed it down after
another NI robot was made that cost £2000 to build (compared to my £20)...
:)+
David Jones
Just because you got a grudge match or Tag battle it doesn't mean they have
to let you on. (read the contract) also what about the hundred or so which
were not even granted that? - If anything you will be lucky to get your £10
membership fee back!
Sorry!