Ant Freeze 8, March 5th 2022. EVENT THREAD & Sign ups

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Ant Freeze 8, March 5th 2022. EVENT THREAD & Sign ups

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The venue is now booked for 5th March 2022.

Ant Freeze is back!

Date: Saturday 5th March 2022
Time: 09:00 - 18:00
Venue:
Hope Community Church,
11 Deveron Way,
Hinckley
Leicestershire
LE10 0XD
Venue map
https://goo.gl/maps/zyw4k7ViVpM2


https://www.facebook.com/AntFreeze/ (Mainly for info, I don`t do much Facebook atm)

Organiser: Team 13 - John Denny (snr)

Arena: Ant Freeze Arena

Up to 4 robots per team/entrant. A separate robot may be entered into Nuts.
Usual 150g weight limit and 100mm/4inch cube size limit.


Important bit!.... I will be asking for £2 per robot entering, this goes towards venue hire and insurance.

ACTIVE WEAPON RULE (Not applicable to Nuts entries)
All tournament robots must have an active weapon/device.

At least one part of a cluster must be armed.

***Sign-ups now live ***
Sign up here... http://antlog.garya.org.uk/entrant?eventId=29

Please note: Sign ups will close at 10pm on 4th March
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The plan...
Venue opens at 8:30
09:00am - Registration. Registration will continue until 10:00am
10:00 Antweight tournament Group fights begin
12.30 - 1300 lunch break
1300 Antweight tournament continues...

Nuts tournament - 1 robot per team - no weapons required
.... and then
Gladiator
Civil War (hopefully this time!)
Annihilator
White boards if time allows

and whatever we can manage in the meantime....

17.30 Trophies and certificates will be awarded

Venue must be vacated and tidy by 18.30
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There will be tea, coffee, and pop as usual but this year I`ll be having a voluntary snacks table - bring something to share and put it on the table! sweets, biscuits, cakes, crisps, robots etc.
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Same venue as last year.
Free parking, unload by the door if needed then park up behind the shops ** NOT IN THE FLATS CAR PARK PLEASE **
There's shops nearby (behind it) with a cashpoint, Sainsburys Express, newsagents, chemist, chip shop (Saturday 12-2pm & 5-9pm I think), pub that serves meals (The Flintlock, https://www.flintockhinckley.co.uk/menus/)

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Last edited by limpet on Wed Mar 02, 2022 10:09 am, edited 6 times in total.
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Re: Ant Freeze event, 5th March anyone?

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Not as far as I'm aware of. I don't know anything about AWS 63 though, someone else might know more? Feb/March is looking like a busy time for insect-weight events though!

26th Feb BBB Beetles
27th Feb Robodojo Ants/Beetles
5th Mar Ant Freeze TBC?
13th Mar BBB Ants/Bodgebots
19th Mar Scouse Showdown Beetles

Would Ant Freeze still be using the separate class tournaments - "spinner", "flipper", "axe", "other" I think it was?
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Re: Ant Freeze event, 5th March anyone?

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Still different weapons for each of your robots but a combined tournament. So it’s just entry criteria that has changed.
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Re: Ant Freeze event, 5th March anyone?

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Cool, thanks for the clarification. Should be bringing a flipper, axe and grabber then.

Just heard that AWS 63 is planned to be March, not sure when though.
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Re: Ant Freeze 8, March 5th 2022.

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Out of curiosity, where is the best scuttlebutt for AWS rumours?
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Re: Ant Freeze 8, March 5th 2022.

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It was on the BBB calendar as tbc so I asked there who was organising it.
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Re: Ant Freeze 8, March 5th 2022.

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I’m *trying* to sort out AWS63 because there were no volunteers for the early year one (we have for the mid year and later year ones.

Soon as I can find a venue I will be posting it all over the everything :)
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Re: Ant Freeze 8, March 5th 2022.

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Here is the sign-up page for Ant Freeze 8,
I will update the main post with all details.
PLEASE NOTE WEAPON RULES BEFORE ADDING ROBOTS

http://antlog.garya.org.uk/entrant?eventId=29
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Re: Ant Freeze 8, March 5th 2022. EVENT THREAD & Sign ups

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Thanks for organising. Don't know if I missed it the main post, how many rollers are we allowed to enter in the main competition (assuming different weapons)?
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Re: Ant Freeze 8, March 5th 2022. EVENT THREAD & Sign ups

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March 5th should be a goer for me! I'll bring a flipper, grabber, vert, and axe. I shall also see if I can find time to redesign any of my bots (cos they all need a new version building) but I honestly doubt I'll have time to do anything bar repairs before May
A grabber? I CHALLENGE IT WITH JIGGY!
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