The Brighton show was a well attended event with 20- 30 robots coming and going over the weekend. The space was a bit tight and I had to share a table with the Spawn Again team on the Saturday.

The show ran from Friday to Sunday but I could only make the weekend slots. Because of the number of radio controlled models being exhibited at the show the organisers had to carefully schedule the bouts so that we didn't clash with the frequencies used by the other exhibitors. This meant that we had well defined time slots in which the battles would take place. So that we didn't waste too much time opening and closing the arena doors, as many robots as possible entered the arena and parked themselves around the inner perimeter, waiting for their turn to do battle.

About five robots at a time would fight while the others stayed parked at the ring side. It was then a fairly quick task at the end of each battle for some robots to be disarmed while the next ones were armed. After the first days battles I had a number of bent panels and struts, but more worryingly I had lost control of one drive motor. This was accompanied by that all too familiar smell of burning electronics. I was keen to participate in the Sunday battles so opted to take the Hog back home to repair it overnight.

Sunday's battles followed in the same way as Saturday's, which were a melee of about five robots per battle. In the first I was overturned, but couldn't self right because I had forgotten to reconnect one of the pneumatic pipes I had removed during the motor controller rebuild. (just my luck!) Such are the consequences of working late into the morning! I did better in the remaining three battles, but ended up loosing control of the transmission in the last battle when a chain jumped off, and a drive sprocket pin sheared.