RoboGames

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.

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
Ziggy Vladiator Gerald Steel Reign The Judge	Original Sin Sewer Snake The Defyer Gerald Vlad II Van Helsing
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
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."