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kkeerroo
Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 1459
Location: Brisbane
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Well Scarifier won the compitition, but Prancing Queen was deffently the robot to remember. This is how we ended doing today.
Scarifier
Its first fight was against Heamorrhage and I managed to get the claw around him 3 times, but every time it wouldn't lift because there was too much weight up front and Scarifier ended up turning over. I ended up snaping a weld at the top of the claw and it fell off. The fight went to the judges and I won.
The second fight was with Marauder. I removed the top claw completly and used some wire attach to the bottom arm to use it as a straight lifter. I didn't want to attack Marauder from the front so I tried to drive around behind, but Philip just sat in the center of the arena and kept turning to face me. We spent about a minute with Scarifier driving in circles around Marauder. I then managed to get behind Marauder and tried the lifter, which worked, but lifted my drive wheels off the ground. So more driving in circles, but with some wedging. I won.
The third fight was with Vertical Limits. I charged straight in and Verti removed the wire holding the lifter together, so I just kept wedging him into the walls. The steel lifter arm is extremly beaten up and with me pounding it with a sledge hammer I couldn't straighten it, but the polycarb is fine. Go the plastic robots. I win.
The final was with Haemorrhage again. This time the lifter was just hammered into a wedge and I just kept heading toward Haemorrhage. It didn't last long before Haemorrhage stopped and I was given the win.
Prancing Queen
First fight against Cheese Shredder. With a fully charged battery and everything working fine this was always going to be interesting. I started off buy moving her away from the edge of the arena and getting her dancing. After stumbling a bit she made contact with the Cheese with a nice bang. She picked up pace a bit and had another go but after hitting she fell over. I started her up to see if she would stand up again when the weapon solenoid welded closed and she started thrashing around on the ground. It took a minute for the batteries to run down but the link had melted and I had to rip the whole thing out. It took half an hour for the EV to stop smoking. But she won the fight due to the fact that cheese had stopped also.
She spent the rest of the day not dancing but walking around to first lose to Vertical Limits, beat Cheese Shredder again (I don't know how?) and then losing to Haemorage. Not bad for an American Blonde.
"Getting dressed is fun!!" _________________ Get Some!!!
Secretary of the Queensland Robotics Sports Club inc.
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