held the Central Illinois Bot Brawl
2008 on 3/29/2008 in Peoria, IL.
Twenty bots were registered.
Robots Live held Memorabilia on
3/29-30/2008 in Birmingham,
England.
Upcoming Events for
June-July 2008
ComBots will present RoboGames
2008 on 6/12-15/2008 in San
Francisco, CA. At press time, almost
100 combat bots were registered.
Go to www.robogames.net for
more information.
D. W. Robots
will present
Pennsylvania Bot
Blast 2008 in Bloomsburg, PA on
7/12/2008. Seventeen bots were
registered at press time. Go to www.
dwrobots.com/tournament.html
for more information.
War-Bots Xtreme will present
WBX-V “Taking the Fifth”
on 7/26/2008 in Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, Canada. Twenty-nine
bots were registered at press time.
Go to www.warbotsxtreme.com
for more information.
The North East Robotics Club will
present House of Benson –
Barnyard Brawl in Winchendon, MA,
on 7/26/2008. Thirty-seven bots
were registered at press time. Go
to www.nerc.us for more
information.
Roaming Robots will present
Guildford 2008 in Guildford,
England on 6/15/2008; and UK
Champs 08/RAF Fairford in
Gloucestershire, England on 7/12-13/
2008. Go to www.roamingrobots.
co.uk for more information. SV
EVENT REP RT
Saskatoon Combat Robotics Club (SCRC) — Kilobots XII
● by Kurtis Wanner
Instead of writing the usual event
report, I have decided to give you
a glimpse into the minds of the
builders while competing. I asked
everyone to write fight reports for
their robots and have chosen to
present — from each driver’s point
of view — the path of Metroid
through the antweight (1 lb) field of
robots. (See Figure 1.)
rear wedge, and a large neodymium
magnet to help keep the robot
stuck to the steel arena floor.”
Metroid vs. Kitbot:
1st Place Champion of
Previous Two Events
Builder Dennis Beck,
of Team DBM,
Describes Metroid
Dennis: “Metroid’s first ever match
was against Team Fingertech’s
Kitbot. The angle of Kitbot’s lifting
wedge/plow was steep enough that
Metroid’s weapon teeth
would not be able to catch
on the leading edge of
the wedge. Luckily, the
sharpened steel weapon
teeth on Metroid’s
spinning drum were able
to get enough bite into
Kitbot’s titanium wedge,
flipping him over. Kitbot
would be inverted for the
remainder of the match. Metroid
got in a few more good hits on
Kitbot before the endcap retaining
nut came unthreaded from
Metroid’s drum, causing the drum to
come out of alignment, eventually
jamming against the frame. The
inverted Kitbot and Metroid chased
each other around the arena for
the remainder of the fight. Judges
decision was in favor of Metroid ...
a great start!”
“Metroid is a new bot to me. It
is of the drum spinner design, that
has been proven to work well in
other antweight robots. I chose to
add some features that I have never
seen before on other antweight
drum spinners. I added titanium
wheel guards, an adjustable height
FIGURE 1. Metroid.
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