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Re: Battle Bots
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:17:23 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Todd Bertschi writes:
I happened to turn on Headline News this morning and was greeted with
an arena in which a pack of robots were beating the screws out of each
other. [...]  Went to their website.  Nothin.  I just have to see some
of the designs they had. [...]

  http://www.battlebots.com/

There are two websites I visited on August 6th that had good pictures.
Unfortunately, right now (August 18) both web sites are overloaded,
probably because of the tournament. The sites are:

  http://www.clineworks.com/robotica.html

  http://www.coolrobots.com/coolrobots.html

You can probably try both sites again after a week or two.

The tournament was telecast on ZDTV (a minor cable network, for those few
people who actually have access to it) and on the web site you mentioned.

- Robert Munafo                            http://www.mrob.com
  LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ #+ S-- LS++ Hsp M+ A@ LM++ YB64m IC13



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In case anyone's still interested, it looks like these web sites are responding again (no longer overloaded) (...) (25 years ago, 25-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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I happened to turn on Headline News this morning and was greeted with an arena in which a pack of robots were beating the screws out of each other. Anyone else seen this? Or know where I could get some more info on it? They mentioned that it came (...) (25 years ago, 16-Aug-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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