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FIGHTING ROBOTS INVADE AUSTIN!
Maker Faire 2008 and RoboGames Bring Battling Bots to Austin for the First Ever Texas Cup!
Maker Faire announces the RoboGames Texas Cup event to be held on October 18th and 19th at the second annual Austin Maker Faire at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin, TX. The monstrous homemade robots, which range in weight from 30 to 340lbs, will be coming from all over the nation and beyond to compete for the title of champion in the first ever Texas competition. Over 27 bots will battle for a Texas Cup in the Featherweight, Lightweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight and Super Heavyweight divisions. With over 25 fights per day, audiences will witness a bevy of pneumatic flippers, flame throwers, spinning blades of death and high-powered body slammers.
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| Saturday | Noon Steel Reign vs Ziggy (340) Ice Cube vs Warsaw (120) Emily vs Pipe Wench (120) Big B vs Texas Heat (60) Cornholio vs Spinnerbait Jr. (60) Mitch vs Pyromancer (30) Original Sin vs Vlad the Impaler II (220) |
3 pm The Judge vs Vladiator (340) Sewer Snake vs The Defyer (220) Ice Cube vs Iron Man (120) Gerald & Emily vs Ziggy (340) Guillotine vs Rotato (60) Big B vs Spinnerbait Jr. (60) Metal Fatigue vs Pyromancer (30) Gerald vs Vlad the Impaler II (220) |
5 pm Steel Reign vs The Judge (340) Original Sin vs Sewer Snake (220) Emily vs Warsaw (120) Iron Man vs Pipe Wench (120) Gerald & Emily vs Vladiator (340) Texas Heat vs Rotato (60) Cornholio vs Guillotine (60) Rotato vs Spinnerbait Jr. (60) Metal Fatigue vs Mitch (30) Gerald vs The Defyer (220) |
7:30 pm Vladiator vs Steel Reign (340) Guillotine vs Texas Heat (60) (Fire show - fire bots try to bake marshmallows) Vlad the Impaler II vs Mallow-bot (220) Texas Heat vs Mallow-bot (60) Pyromancer vs Mallow-bot (30) Darwin vs Mallow-bot (500) Libby vs Mallow-bot (500) Vladiator vs Mallow-bot (340) |
| Sunday | 12:30 am Ziggy vs The Judge (340) Vlad the Impaler II vs Sewer Snake (220) Pipe Wench vs Ice Cube (120) Emily vs Iron Man (120) Mitch vs Pyromancer (30) Spinnerbait Jr. vs Guillotine (60) Texas Heat vs Cornholio (60) Big B vs Rotato (60) Gerald vs Original Sin (220) |
3:30 pm Gerald & Emily vs The Judge (340) Pipe Wench vs Warsaw (120) Vladiator vs Ziggy (340) The Defyer vs Original Sin (220) Big B vs Guillotine (60) Rotato vs Cornholio (60) Spinnerbait Jr. vs Texas Heat (60) Metal Fatigue vs Pyromancer (30) Gerald vs Sewer Snake (220) |
4:30 pm Gerald & Emily vs Steel Reign (340) Warsaw vs Iron Man (120) Emily vs Ice Cube (120) Big B vs Cornholio (60) Metal Fatigue vs Mitch (30) The Defyer vs Vlad the Impaler II (220) |
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Battling robot competitors to keep an eye out for include crowd favorite and RoboGames dominator, the 340lb Canadian robot "Ziggy", who will have to beat out Austin-based "The Judge" in order to fight his way to the Texas Cup in the Super Heavyweight category. Texas Heat is the fire-breathing, award-winning bar-b-quer of bots who is coming all the way from Canada to flame his way to ComBot glory in the Lightweight category.
All your favorite competitors will be on hand to sign autographs and answer questions about their robots. Get a birds-eye view into the pits as the robots are serviced and repaired. Find out how the builders are going to do it better next time, and learn how to make your own bot from the ground up. |
Fighters
| 340lb Super Heavyweight: | 220lb Heavyweight: |
More on the RoboGames groups |
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| Ziggy Vladiator Gerald Steel Reign The Judge |
Original Sin Sewer Snake The Defyer Gerald Vlad II Van Helsing |
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| 120lb Middleweight: | 60lb Lightweight: | |
| Warsaw Pipe Wench Tetracide Emily Ice Cube |
Texas Heat Dark Disk Big B Rotato Spinnerbait Jr. Cornholio Guillotine The Rutt Factor |
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| 30lb Featherweight: | ||
| Pint Sized Chaos Relic Retic Bot Totally Offensive |
"It's really awesome to be doing a show in Austin," says RoboGames President David Calkins. "This will be the largest venue we've ever played to, so we're really looking forward to a good crowd. I imagine the Texans are really going to enjoy our San Francisco robot destruction. For everyone who loves watching car wrecks at NASCAR, they're in for a treat. These robots TRY to destroy each other. Fire and crashes each and every match."
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