GCRS2 results

The GCRS competition is over....
It's always an interesting day when it involves a combat robot competition, and this was no exception. There were good battles, frantic mechanical repairs, vexing electrical malfunctions, scavenging for negative weight, crazy driving and a bit of competitve spirit to round things out.


Trauma meet Piranha.....



Nice hit but I'm invertable....



I'm not running away, I just can't drive my bot....

Let me remove this extra piece I found on your bot.... Unfortunately this resulted in a too big of a hit between my weapon spinning at about 12,000 rpm and Piranha. A piece did fly off Piranha, but one of my weapon blades got nudged out of position and scuffed against the front of my bot preventing my weapon from spinning. Judges decision at the end of the battle in favor of Piranha.

Next I had to battle Conundrum, go figure.... We decided to just let it rip even though Daniel was still struggling with his radio and had no way of predicting how his bot would run. This was the first hit, which ended up flipping Conondrum over. Due to all the electrical debugging the previously compressed wiring was overflowing from the top of Conondrum making it non-invertable.

While your upside down and not doing anything, let's touch weapons! Judges decision in favor of Trauma.

Trauma meets Little Scoop.... Now this won't hurt a bit, 12,000 rpm is nothing to worry about.


Are you sure we're allowed to do this during the competition, we're in public for bots sake! Wow you're a frisky bot...

Hey, did I do something wrong? Why are we going over here?

I'm afraid of heights! Stop that, let's play some more.... S%&@!!!!!

After my little Humpty-Dumpty impersonation here, I entered a 4 bot rumble and proceeded to hit one of the bots so hard it decimated the 2 ball bearings supporting the weapon shaft, and broke the weapon motor mount allowing the motor to spin inside the bot winding up all the wiring into a huge ball which broke both the BR6000 receiver and Thunderbird ESC from their mounts. The weapon motor stopped working at some point during this spontaneous re-wiring event ending the day for Trauma, with, well trauma.

Special Thanks to Ken Strothman for taking all these photos during the competition and getting them to me on a CD the next day.