AWS 50- 23rd July- Basingstoke

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As usual, we had a blast! Thanks to everyone again. Hope you got enough donations! The cake was really nice - if my wife had been there, she'd be asking for the recipe. :P

Thanks to Peter for lending my sons friend a robot, he was so happy to take part.

Well done to Rory, you deserved a good win!

Lost (nearly) all my fights again, but we'll be back with faster, meaner robots. :evil:
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Seems like AWS 50 was a blast, look forward to seeing the videos online once they go up! Just wondering where I can find details of the upcoming AWS events? perhaps I'm not looking properly but I can't seem to find a list! Thanks guys :)
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There are always 3 a year,roughly around spring summer and autumn, there isn't a list simply because we haven't organized who is running each event and the exact day, these are usually decided a month or 2 before the event
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bot_bandit wrote:Seems like AWS 50 was a blast, look forward to seeing the videos online once they go up! Just wondering where I can find details of the upcoming AWS events? perhaps I'm not looking properly but I can't seem to find a list! Thanks guys :)
They just get posted in the events section of the forum as they are organised.

EDIT: been such a busy weekend I'd forgotten I hadn't got around to posting here yet.

First up a Huge thanks to Dan and his family for hosting another great event! They've really been excellent supporters of the weight class.

The event was great and while I lost the title I was really pleased that it not only went to Rory but also to a spinner aswell! It's been a long time since we saw one of those in the top spot.

My robots did quite nicely with the surprise of Wedge Wedge Wedge actually appearing to be my best entry despite some dodgy driving (Thanks for being team carry Rory.). ICBINS is now a little shorter and with a nice nick taken out the RX so I'll have to figure out some fixing. I Said I Was Sawry was a really fun bot to drive with and while I didn't do well with it with some time and practice (Plus using the right size bolt to hold the servo horn on :P ) it'll be a fun bot. U W0T M9 was its usual self, continually breaking and fixing itself but it worked long enough to take out all 2 other opponents in the NWS! :D I'm hoping to get something together soon to help people build nanos as I'd love to see more about.
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1. There were 3 opponents, how could you forget the lemon?
2.im looking into what I can do with my hxt900's and a nano is quite tempting
3.can we make fresh cake compulsory at every venue?
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Occashokka wrote:1. There were 3 opponents, how could you forget the lemon?
I didn't get to fight the lemon unfortunately.
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The lemon needed to be more practical I think - it had so little weight to it that it wasn't much of an opponent for anything :( I'll have to use all the steel to make up for that...
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Joey squeezed that lemon until the pips came out
I started out with nothing and still have most of it left
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I think performance wise this was my best AWS including a never to be forgotten pit entry :D
I started out with nothing and still have most of it left
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Well, that was an unexpected turn of events! Glad to have finally broken the Alex/Andy winning spree, and with a non-3D printed spiner at that:P

Cheers to Dan and everyone else who organised it; was a great event and seemed to all go smoothly :)
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