Team JandA.
● 12-pounders — 1st: Surgical
Strike, Team Rolling Thunder; 2nd:
Mephit, NovaRobots; 3rd: Blunt
Instrument, Team Rolling Thunder.
● 30-pounders — 1st: Power Of
Metal, Team EMF; 2nd: Gloomy,
Terror; 3rd: Sloth, Massacre
Robotics.
● Sportsman’s — 1st: Mangi, Team
Half Fast Astronaut; 2nd: Upheaval,
Mad Scientist; 3rd: Gnome Portal,
Robotic Hobbies.
● Special Awards — Best Driver:
John Durand, Team Anarchy
Robotics; Most Aggressive Driver:
Al Kindle, Team Half Fast Astronaut;
Coolest Robot: Herald, Robotic
Hobbies; Best Engineered Robot:
One Fierce Low Ryda, Fierce Robots.
The BotsIQ
Boston
Regional was
presented by
BotsIQ Boston in
Plymouth, MA
on March 8,
2008. Results were not available at
press time.
Roaming Robots held an event at
the Barnsley Metrodome on
February 17, 2008. “For the first
time, we headed up north to
Barnsley at their Metrodome Leisure
Complex to put on two action-packed, fun-filled shows. Once
again, we had it all from robots
being flipped out of the arena, fire
in the arena, arena hazards doing
their duty, and also an added bonus
of Star Wars popping in to keep
the audience in check in between
the fights.” Well done to the two
heavyweight winners Envy and
Kan-Opener, and the two feather
weight winners Pain in the Asp
and Cyberon.
Upcoming Events for
May-June 2008
ComBots Cup III will be presented
by ComBots in San Mateo, CA
May 2-4, 2008. Go to www.
robogames.net for more details.
This is the Heavyweight
Championship!
Roaming Robots will hold events
at Fenton Manor, in Stoke On
Trent on May 4, 2008, in Kingsbury
at the Aylesbury Town Centre, on
May 11, 2008, and at the Guilford
Spectrum in Parkway, Surry on June
15, 2008. Go to www.roaming
robots.co.uk for more details.
Robots Live will hold London
MCM Expo on May 24-25, 2008
at the London ExCeL Centre. Go to
www.robotslive.co.uk for more
details.
Carolina Combat Robots will hold
their CCR Memorial Day Qualifier
in Greensboro, NC on May 24,
2008. Go to www.carolina
combat.com for more details. This
will be an East Coast Nationals
Qualifier! Carolina Combat Robots is
having its third event in Greensboro,
NC. The arena is a 16 foot x 32 foot
steel structure with 1/4” steel floor
and 1/2” of Lexan for the walls. The
event will include Robots from
150 g Fairyweight to the 120 lbers.
RoboGames 2008 will be
presented by ComBots in San
Francisco, CA, June 12-15, 2008.
Go to www.robogames.net for
more details. The fifth annual
International RoboGames invites you
to join thousands of robots from
around the planet. ComBots and
The Robotics Society of America
(RSA) invite you to the largest robot
show in the world. All major robot
competitions will be held over the
four-day event. Last year’s event
included teams from 20 countries —
this year, we want 50 countries! SV
EVENT REP RT
WAR in Seattle
In February 2008, Western Allied
Robotics (WAR) made its second
appearance at the North West
● by Rob Farrow
Model Hobby Expo. Racing R/C cars,
along with plane and helicopter
demos, competed for attention with
a particularly destructive and memorable robot combat competition.
WAR’s arena was expanded to 16’ x
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