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It seemed no time at all since we were
in the Robot Wars arena having a few tussles with Revolution, Direct
Action, ICU, Thor and Mute. Before we knew it Storm II was the
New Blood Grand Champion, and automatically qualified for Series 7
of Robot Wars - as the 16th seed. Between the filming of Robot Wars Extreme and Series 7 a lot changed in Robot Wars world. A highly controversial set of new rules came out which now made it one of the rules that all robots must have an active weapon. The team rose to the challenge and with a hand from a couple of our friends (Dave Gamble, George Francis and John Reid) we not only put a weapon in, but gave Storm II more armour, more speed and more POWER ! This year we had a new team member join us, at the time Tim's girlfriend, then later fiancée and now wife Meral Meral came along as our third team member to help keep us on the straight and narrow - to help us out during the nightmare that is amusingly just called 'filming'. |
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While we're taling about changes and additions, the major changes from Extreme II to Series 7 are as follows :
It took a great deal of work to transform Storm II from the machine that did Extreme II to the machine that rolled into the arena at the start of Series 7 - it was not just a great effort by the team, but by the team and all those who supported us. We even had time to paint it thanks to Lucy (Tim's sister) and Meral, both co-opted onto the team to help out ! Even this effort was repaid as Jayne announced that we were the best looking most pristine robot she had ever seen ! Storm II had been transformed from a low-tech (yet powerful) machine to a Formula 1-esqe extreme piece of Robot Fighting equipment. The Series VII Road to Victory As one of our very good friends in Team Tornado would be saying about now - "Bring it on" So how do you want to hear the story of Series 7 ? Do you want to hear the 'official' Team Storm version, or do you want to hear from Tim or Meral - have a look below and read the amazing story of Storm II at Robot Wars Series 7 from different viewpoints. Was Series 7 a fix, were Mentorn the producers of Robot Wars out to get the 'little black box' that was Storm II..... ? |
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Both Tim and Meral (Tim being the
other half of Team Storm from myself), and Meral, his wife have
taken the time to write their view of what the show was like.
Tim is an old hand at this Robot Wars lark - having been in the team since the start and gives a view from another roboteer at filming
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Hear it Meral's Way | ||
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... or read on for the official Storm II story, and all the controversy that surrounds it. Let the wars begin . . . . . .
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