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A very large gas
powered clamping bot. |
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Light Weight
robot Snow Flake and Middle Weight robot ? from Team Toad. |
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Fuzzy's new
Super Heavy Weight Ice Berg. |
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Fuzzy's
returning Heavy Weight Frost Bite. |
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Team Cool Robots
new robot Dreadnought, a wedge with a powerful double vertical spinning
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Toe Crusher
fresh out of the crate, without the arm attached. |
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Minion with new
additions. The wedge is stronger, it has a self righting arm, and the saw
has been replaced by a heavy vertical spinning blade. |
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Christian
Carlberg having a picture taken with one of his many fans next to the new
bot Dreadnought. |
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A view of the
pits. |
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Another view of
the pits. |
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Still another
view. |
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Two bots next to
my pit table. The closest one is Froghemouth, the further is Daisy. Both
are Light Weights. |
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An view of the
pits from the balcony. |
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Panning right. |
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Further right. |
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Jim working on
Nightmare by flashlight power in the parking lot. |
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Competitors hard
at work in the outside 'grinding/welding' area. |
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Overkill gets
unpacked. |
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Toe Crusher with
the arm attached. |
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Killerhurtz, it
kills, it hurts. |
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The BattleBox,
still under construction. |
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Vladinator, the
new Super Heavy Weight by the driver of Vlad the Impaler. |
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Whyachi (SHW) on
the ground, and Son of Whyachi (HW) on the table above. This team is from
Wisconsin, and it's rumored that they spent $60K on the two robots. |
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The safety
meeting on Thursday morning. |
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Car steering
setup on Killerhurtz. |
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Another view. |
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A disassembled
view of the Middle Weight walker that is redefining walkers. This thing is
fast! |
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The Light Weight
version of the walker. I saw it being test driven outside, and it is
faster than most of the wheeled bots, and very controllable. 1/2"
aluminum sides. |
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Before we were
told we couldn't take pictures during matches, I snapped this one of Light
Weights ? and Bambino in an early Preliminary match. |
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More of the same
match. Notice the two baseball bats that used to be attached to Bambino,
now on the BattleBox floor. |
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Dead Blow, with
additional side wedges, and an extra wedge like attachment to the
'pecker'. |
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Mauler 5150
(HW). |
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Salad (LW). |
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Another view of
the box. |
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The view from
Building 180 to the Bay Bridge. |
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The Light Weight
walker I mentioned earlier. Very fast and controllable. Walking motion is
done through four aluminum 'feet' on each side propelled by a cam. |
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A view of the
Judge, one of the most amazing new bots. |
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Another view of
the Judge. That spike put two holes in the floor of the BattleBox, and had
to be changed to a hammer. |
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Dead Blow
without wheels. |
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Roy explaining
that we can only take pictures before and after the event. |
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Little Drummer
Boy (MW) had a very effective spinning drum. |
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Little Drummer
Boy used four 24v Dewalt drill motors, two for drive, and two for the
drum. Notice the nice Lexan motor mounts. |
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Ziggo |
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Battle damage. |
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Looks like a
visit to the killsaws. |
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The box |
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More of the box. |
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This blade was
straight before the fight... |
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After a visit
with the pulverizors. |
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A cast aluminum
shell. |
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Blade Runner
after a hard days work. |
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The Kevlar armor
held up well, but the Kill Saws can be unforgiving. |
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Toe Crusher
during a test drive in the parking lot. |
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More box. |
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Carlo and wife
with Biohazard while the Mouldin's look on in the background. |
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No Apologies
after an encounter with The Judge. |
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More battle
damage. |
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The damage
doesn't end. |
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Brian working on
Towering Inferno. |
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Now what could
peel back the armor like that? |
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You've heard of
Bigger Brother, well this is Little Sister. |
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Even OverKill
gets damaged. |
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One of the
Raptors |
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Ice Cube |
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Who needs four
wheels. |
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Team Clobber
member Mike displaying the piece of Vlad the Impaler he got from a CrewBot. |
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Late night
grinding in the parking lot. |
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Jim posing with
Nightmare. |
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The box with the
lights going. |
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Close up of the
Tilford motor mount in Mauler 5150. |
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Another close up
of Mauler 5150. |
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Nightmare in a
slightly 'disassembled' state. |
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Ziggo with the
lid off. |
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Hazard with the
lid off, displaying the 18v Dewalt drill motors. |
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Wedge of Doom
with the lid off, displaying it's 18v Dewalt drill motors. |
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This is what we
were served twice a day for 7 days. Well, I exaggerate. Sometimes, instead
of turkey, we got roast beef. Or instead of a bun, we got bread. Once we
got a bag of chips... |
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Crew Bots posing
for pictures (Roy, the head Crew Bot is on the left). |
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Bad Badger |
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Nice hub! |
