EVENTS
Completed Events August 9th – September 14th
Gulf Coast Robot Sports
6 was presented
by Gulf Coast
Robot Sports in
Bradenton, FL, on August
8th.
Robot Battles 39 was presented at DragonCon
2010 in
Atlanta, GA on
September 5th
and 6th. SV
EVENT REPORT:
Clash of the B ts –
Schiele Museum 2010
● by Pete Smith
Walk in the front door of the Schiele Museum
( www.schielemuseum.org) in
Gastonia, NC and the first thing you
see is a full size replica of the
skeleton of a T-Rex! Fearsome
though it is, there was a much more
modern form of “survival of the
fittest” at their annual Clash of the
Bots this summer.
Carolina Combat
( www.carolinacombat.com)
worked with the Museum to put on
a combined insect weight robot
combat and Bot Hockey event.
This event reflects a growing
trend of combining a combat robot
competition with a general robot
themed day at a local museum.
Carolina Combat provided and set
up both the Insect combat and the
Bot Hockey arenas (Figure 1) while
the Museum provided the space,
nice big trophies, catering for the
competitors, and crowd control.
Two teams entered for the Bot
Hockey (Figure 2) and they fought a
“best of seven” games series
throughout the day with additional
games and demonstrations which
included members of the audience
driving the bots.
FIGURE 1
FIGURE 2
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