We managed to have 3 rounds today. At the end of the day the top 8 robots are:
Bane 2
King Cobra
Marauder
Stainless Steel Rat
Bender
Sproing
Inspector General
Demon

This may change after 3 or 4 rounds tomorrow.
Hellcat and Badger have already been retired.

The Keros have done a tremendous job organising the event and with the arena. It is great to see the way that the roboteers get in and help each other.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

Hmmmm, it seems that 7 rounds makes people and robots tired

The final scores after the 7th round is, in decending order:
1st - Demon - 110
2nd - Stainless Steel Rat - 106
3rd - Sproing - 98
4th - Inspector General - 97
5th - Orbit - 95
6th - Bender
- King Cobra - 94
8th - Black & White
- Marauder - 79
10th - Bane 2 - 72
11th - Flexo - 70
12th - Puncturer - 66
13th - 6 x7 - 64
14th - Pyro Bot - 58
15th - Hellbringer - 30
16th - Scissorhands - 26
17th - JOL - 11
18th - Rhino (retired) - 5
19th - Mini Mower (retired)
- MBX (retired)
- Badger (retired)
- Hellcat (retired)-0

Marauder and Black & White were tied at 8th place and a play off was needed to decide who was in the final. Black & White won by a judges decission, 9-6.

The finals will look like this:
Orbit vs Demon
Sproing vs Bender
SSR vs King Cobra
IG vs Black & White

THIS HAD BETTER ALL BE ON FILM!
man, demon vs orbit, cant wait
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The day I stop giving 100%, is the day I stop competing

Demon vs Orbit was over in 10sec with one hit. Both bots flipped over but demon selfrighted. Final is Cobra vs Bender, starts in 2mins.
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Cobra w0n!
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XD Go glen!!
Wait, that means he gets an aweful lotta prize money then! :O
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Around $500 iirc.
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back, thanks to all for IF, was an expensive weekend but all around am generally happy with Orbit, need to fix self righter issue, strength issue where the weeopn shaft is (the 3mm steel bent on some of the crazier hits), get a spare belt, new pulley and throw another brushless in there (when upper section tweaked a lil disc hit pulley and bent shaft, cracking magnet) so when thats reinforced it should be reliable and the brushless performed flawlessly all weekend

Was able to bounce pyro bot off the roof and able to chew through 6mm ali and bend thick steel easily so the weopons been perfected best it can be so just self tighter and reliability and all is well

congrats to Glen, demon was kickass and cobra owned all

im off for a shower and some relax then will fix orbit in next week or two for first round
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Congratulations to the Keros on a successful event. Congratulations to Glen on the win. Demon is well made and a crowd pleaser. (I particularly liked the "bitch slap" victory move.)

Speaking of crowd pleasing, it was hard to decide who was the more favoured between Sproing and Pyrobot. They both drew a lot of applause. Special mention should also go to King Cobra who got the best cheer after a spectacular win.

Hardest working, apart from the three Keros, would have to be Nick. Nick seemed to be constantly rebuilding and reshaping (read: pounding bent panels with a sledge hammer). Sissorhands kept coming back for more.

Likewise, Gary had eight million robots and would rebuild a destroyed robot in between rounds and still have time to chat to the crowd over the fence.

Roboteers are still the best people. Everyone was so quick to offer spare parts or advice or general help or the use of a tool. (Thanks, Andrew, for that battery balance.)

Over all, it was an enjoyable way to spend my 42nd birthday.
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So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems

Dude, you hardly look 30 something - Happy birthday! I certainly put some muscle into hammering those wheel pods back into shape, it seems that everyone wanted a piece of them

I have tomorrow off, so I should be able to get some good videos posted

Thanks to everyone for coming along and making it such a great event.
Extra thanks for all those who could stay late and help pack up the venue. Even more thanks to Steve and the Victorian thwack-bot team for helping unload again at our place.
The event went very smoothly except for a slightly overdone display by Pyrobot which forced us to stop half an hour while the smoke cleared. The audience loved it however.
I am definitly thinking that next time we will do only 2 days as most robots were done after 70 odd fights in the first 2 days.
My brother is looking to get some videos up as soon as possible but I am afraid to say that we seem to have lost the video of the first round fights and some of the second round. We have copies of Nicks tapes and will recover what we can.
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Originally posted by Nick:
Dude, you hardly look 30 something

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I can't beleive I forgot to add an extra special thanks to my wife for putting up with my stress over the last couple of months. Not only did she stick by me but she also helped all four days of the event (including the set up on Thursday) and did a great job displaying next fight info on the big screen and listing the current scores.
Thank you.
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Mat Andrew and I made it home by about 12.30 last night. A fantastic weekend and thanks to the kerrisons for organising a great weekend. Thanks to all the builders for putting on a good show. 6x7 is a bit battered atm but will be back!!!! Thans to steve for running us to Jaycar on Friday when the power supply died.