Robot Battles

[ldsman.livejournal.com]

In Monday's robot battle, mention was made of a robot and creator being frankensteined(tossed in the closest body of water). anyone know why this happened?

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[tertiumquid.livejournal.com]

As I recall...
The competitor's bot was heading for the edge when he blocked it from falling off with his knees. That could very well have been an instinctive reaction and most of us when called on it would have accepted the defeat with grace. He didn't. He then followed it up by running his bot ( a big black plastic spider-looking thing) across the floor and into Kelly's foot. It wasn't heavy or fast enough to cause an injury but it was just an asinine move.

From that point, we saw pitchforks and lighters in the crowd and heard someone yell "Kill the monster!"

The rest is Robot Battles history. :)

[adolla.livejournal.com]

Is this the year the pool was closed for good?

[tertiumquid.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. It was still opened the next year. I've heard there was some other event that caused the closure, but it definitely was not the frankensteining.

[coleoptera.livejournal.com]

A variety of issues closed that pool and others. Not much of the bot actually made it in the heave over the fence.

For those of you who are interested, there is a competition for middle and high school students called Science Olympiad that is adding a robot battle competition this year. I am sure anyone versed in the building and use of the robots would be much in handy for both coaching and tournaments. Plenty of schools don't have ANY sort of budget, no matter how little you might think it really costs, to get supplies for something like that (really, fifty bucks is a large expense) and any expert help might come much in handy.

[catgirlnikki.livejournal.com]

Kudos for mentioning the Science Olympiad... I used to do that when I was in high school. My father is a Science teacher in one of those for mentioned schools that have no budget down in Dooly county.