Well here it is at last!!
Merry Christmas everybody!!
Well, what a year it’s been. This year been a bit of a mixed bag for us with Hydra starting off the year with major technical problems but managing to finish a very respectable 16th in the UK beating Envy along the way. SMIDSY saw it’s first run out at Guildford and managed to win its first fight at Maidstone placing it 24th with just three fights. Had we managed to be at every event who knows where we would be.
After a lot of discussion we’ve decided that SMIDSY will be retired from competition for the 2010 season. This is mainly due to the lightweight chasis it has which needs replacing to make it competetive. It will still run in the occassional whiteboard fight but will mainly be at events for display purposes.
That’s probably a good time to make an anouncement on the worst kept secret ever which is that next year we will be running two competition heavy weights. Obviously one will be Hydra and the other will be Dantomkia who we have bought off John Bell and Team Batter. After many years with the robot John has decided to concentrate on Scorpion. We just hope that we can make Dantomkia as good as its potential. It has never seemed to be the dominating force it could have been. First thing we will be doing is replacing that link!!!
Hydra will be seeing some major upgrades for 2010 and we will be getting Wheely Big Cheese running during 2010 (hopefully Barnsley) so it should be a good year.
Hope you all have a fabulous Christmas.
Team Hydra