Ant Freeze 4 - Sign Up & details

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If time permits there should be
Ant, Flea & Nano tournaments,
Football, Nuts, Annihilator,
And there will be two brand new games this year 'Civil War' and 'Portal' :)
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Re: Ant Freeze 4 - Sign Up & details

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Apologies for not sending this sooner,

Ant Freeze 4

Where:
The Island Project College
114-116 Birmingham Road
Nether Whitacre
Coleshill
Birmingham
B46 2EP

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If you have difficulty finding it then head for
The Swan Pub in Whitacre Heath,
1 Station Rd, B46 2JA
opposite this you will see Birmingham Road which you need to go along, the college looks like a house and is on the left.
It has a block paved driveway.

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When: 09:30 28th Jan 2017
Until: 16:30 28th Jan 2017
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The plan...
Arrival anytime after 09:00
09:00-10:00 Sign-ups and set up
10:00 Flea Weight Tournament to AWS rules.
followed by
Ant Weight Tournament to AWS rules
followed by

Pinball
Nuts
Annihilator
and two new games!

Nanos and Football will be added if time allows.
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Look for this driveway.
We hope to have some signs up anyway.
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Belatedly signed up - just bringing Jigsaw this time. I had a really bad case of the flu which has precluded me having anything else ready :( Really looking forward to seeing everyone again though. Hope the games are as good as I'm imagining!
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Aaaand back home! Many thanks to John and Mel from the venue for hosting a great event; it was a lot of fun and I would love to go back again. My only regret is we didn't get to try the new games, but any event where I get to make friends with a bearded dragon is a good one :) Thankyou to everyone else for putting up with me being slightly loopy and Tracy being a bit sleepy. You're all wonderful lovely people and I wish events could happen every weekend so I could see you all more...

Jigsaw didn't do brilliantly but it won as many fights as it lost and acquitted itself pretty well (and took a Why Wait to the face and still works) so I think there's some life left in the current design. Well done to everyone who won, especially Ryan for winning a spinner annihilator with a big wedge!
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Yes another great event thanks to John and family for organizing it and a great new venue which is so convenient being close to the M42 motorway.
A special thanks to John the younger for the pinball / obstacle arena I really enjoyed that event.
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New World Champion Ant Freeze Series 4 Dystopiant :D


Dystopiant 1st Team Ablaze
BullyDozer 2nd Team Riptide
Bulletproof 3rd Team Hell
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Another fun event, thanks to all who came, I think everyone had a good time.
The new venue proved very nice with loads of power sockets and space around the arena.

We had over 50 robots in the main antweight tournament so it was more or less half an AWS!
A problem became apparent with Antlog 2 (I would have used 3 but I was so short of time in the run up I didn`t get chance to test it at home)
where a robot in each group was dropped after only losing once, luckily we stopped in time to correct it and ran the Nuts tournament before continuing the main tournament on paper.

We had a couple of mis-fights too, always check you are fighting the right robot! :D

Unfortunately time got the better of us and we only got to play another two games - The Gladiator, which was pretty destructive to say the least, and finished off with Pinball.

Civil War and Portal will be carried to the next one.

Ant Freeze 5 will definitely go ahead and should be the same venue, also I`m considering a Summer/Autumn event there too, maybe an AWS is possible if a few volunteers want to help out.
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I God Big New All Robots Be New Ant Weight Tournament 4 Robots To Flight 2 Win or 2 Lost

The New Pit Back
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