EVENTS
Completed and Upcoming Events
Completed Events for
June 18 to July 15,
2009
Bay Area Robot Fights at MetroCon was held June 20th
in Tampa, FL.
Gulf Coast Robot Sports-2 was held July 11th in Bradenton, FL.
For more details, go to
www.robotmarketplace.com.
Upcoming Events for
Sept-Oct 2009
HORD Fall 2009 will be presented by the Ohio Robot Club in
Strongsville, OH
on September
12th. For more
details, go to
www.ohio
robotclub.com.
Franklin Institute 2009 will be presented by North East
Robotics Club in Philadelphia, PA
October 4th and 5th.
For more details, go to
www.nerc.us.
Mecha-Mayhem 2009 will be presented by the Chicago
Robotic Combat Association in
Rosemont, IL October 23rd
through 25th.
For more
details, go
to www.
theCRCA.
org. SV
EVENT REP RT:
Bay Area Robot Fights at
MetroCon in Tampa
MetroCon is an Anime Convention that is held
annually in Tampa, FL. This was the
seventh annual year that MetroCon
has been held, and it is the largest
Anime Festival in the state of
Florida. This year, MetroCon hosted
Typical MetroCon characters, but a
different universe for bot fighters!
● by Morgan Berry
an event for Bay Area Robot Fights
(BARF). (Yes, TeamPyramid — the
event originators — know what it
spells. Be glad they settled for that
name, and not some of their other
ideas!) The event featured both
Antweights (one pound) and
Beetleweights (three pounds). A
total of 22 robots registered for the
event: 12 Antweights and 10
Beetleweights. The event organizer
was Seth Carr, a long time SECR
insect fighter. The event was a
popular one at MetroCon. At times,
spectators had to stand or sit on the
floor due to lack of seating in the
room. This event turned out to be
an interesting mix of costumed
convention goers mingling with the
“super nerd” robot builders. Men,
women, and children dressed as
Pokemon, Naruto characters, and
various other Anime characters
looked on as an epic battle to the
death unfolded.
The Antweight competition was
held as a double elimination tournament. Babe the Blue Bot of team
Legendary Robotics came in first
place for the Antweights. Black and
Decker Robot Wrecker of Cutting
Edge Robotics placed second, and
Verbal Irony of A.G. Robotics placed
third. In the final fight for the
Antweights, sparks flew as the
vertical saw blade of BDRW tore
into the titanium frame of Babe.
Unfazed, Babe — a wedge bot —
30 SERVO 09.2009
