how are people planing on getting there, drive, plane?

If people r planning stuff when r they flying down.driving down as i wish to plan to go dow myself and would like to go down with somebody whether it be drive or plane so i can tag along for a ride

I plan on flying probably as driving for that many house gets anoying (its ok though) and less time needed off work
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When is the event likely to finish? It would be really handy to know for people flying inter-state to know if they can fly out on Sunday evening or Monday.
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I just assumed late, we go back on the monday.
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Would I be able to tag along with someone from Sydney/Newcastle? And any advice for where to stay in Melbourne? A bit of help would be appreciated because I don't know anyone.

Ending times of the event arent exactly predictable, but the final usually occurs around about 6-8pm on Sunday based on past events.

Sidetracked like to close up by 10pm, so unless you want to hang around for the after-event bull-session at the nearest food and drink dispensary, you can be certain of being on the road by then.

Of course if you like to swap alcohol enhanced bot-stories afterwards, then a monday afternoon flight might be advisable.
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Of course if you like to swap alcohol enhanced bot-stories afterwards, then a monday afternoon flight might be advisable.

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I dont know that I would agree about alcohol enhancing the roboteers.. just the stories they tell..
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That's good enough for me - I'm booking a Monday return flight!
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dose anyone know how far away side tracked is from the overlander station ?(if there is such a thing )

Whats an overlander station ?

Info on Sidetracks location is here
http://www.robowars.org/wikka/SideTracked

It is about 500meters walk from Huntingdale station to Sidetracked
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The OverLander IIRC, is a train We have the Sunlander up here in QLD that goes from Cairns to Brisbane daily. I'm guessing WM is wanting to catch the train to Melbourne...
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thats what I was thinking

Melbourne Spencer Street Station
Spencer Street Melbourne VIC

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http://www.trainways.com.au/our-trains/train-routes.php

Ah OK, I get it.

Well, from Spencer St Station, you should be able to transfer to a pakenham or cranbourne line train, then hop off at Huntingdale.

Sometimes (late nights and weekends) you might have to go from Spencer St (where all the country trains arrive) to Flinders St (The center of the Metro train system) before you can hop on the suburban trains..

but its all easy to follow.. they tell you on big screens at Spencer to "Take next train to flinders st" (its only 1 station away) if necessary.
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yeah well it's still a maybe

I only started on the frame today and I hope to get to adelaide and ge me some drill and other crap

hope to be there tho ,and angus wants a bettle battel so now i have to build 3 robots

I have booked the plane tickets, hire car and motel so we are set. I have also inquired about the hire of a CO2 cylinder for the weekend so if anyone else needs CO2 for any reason (not as a fire extinguisher, that just has "Health and Safety Issue" written all over it) just let me know.
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