From June 12-15th, 2008 we competed at RoboGames 2008 in San Francisco.

Competition

Debbie, Kelsey and our friend Scott would fly in later. Here are some of Fuzzy's pictures from the trip.

We started the road trip in Austin, Texas	At the LBJ ranch...some animals are less dangerous than advertised	After El Paso, I-10 crosses southern New Mexico	One way to keep people from loitering at rest stops
New Mexico, I-10, N-32 deg 11.903 min, W-108 deg 16.483 min	New Mexico was really worried about people stopping in the middle of the road	Next I crossed Arizona	Fuzzy visits Benson, Arizona
We drove through Tombstone, too	Cholla Garden, Joshua Tree Natl. Park	Joshua Tree Natl Park	Lost Horse Mine, N-33 deg 56.476 min, W-116 deg 08.185 min
This mine produced gold and silver between 1896 and 1931.	Apparently the California sign designer was late for his yoga class, so he made an "et cetera" destination sign	Welcome to San Francisco, just pick a direction	That's the sign we've been waiting for

Competition

We had only moderate success compared to our second place finish in 2006. Ice Cube went 2-2 to finish tied for 7th place in of a field of 16 robots. Here's our fight record for the event:

Fort Mason, Festival Pavilion	The DracUCLA team	Scissorhands	Bunnyboy and the WPI Team
Fuzzy and Ice Cube	Debbie: Mother Toad	Kelsey talking to Tokyo or Milan or Sao Paolo...always busy	Scott, our guest Toad
Fuzzy and Scott with Ice Cube	Fuzzy and Scott load Ice Cube into the arena	Ice Cube's first defeat: Professor Chaos	Saturday and Sunday the stands were almost always full
Fired Up, the Junior League Champ	Cornholio (red) vs Herr Gepounden. Herr Gepounden and Ice Cube are the two oldest robots in the competition (both started in Season 3 of BattleBots)	Dave's eye view of Fuzzy and the Pits	Matt and Sewer Snake
Argus, a flame-throwing clamp-bot	Argus grabs on and bakes Titan	Open wide	Closeup of Argus
Simone puts out another robot fire	Matt Spent all night Saturday making a new front for Pipe Wench	Logo Detail	Last Rites vs Eugene
Brown Note vs. K2	Plywood meets its doom	Scissorhands vs. Plasma	Professor Chaos vs Touro
Touro spent a lot of the match airborne	Just chewing on my competitor	You will believe	A Bull can fly
Team Mad Overlord provided high speed video coverage	There were many other robots in attendance	And stormtroopers looking for lost droids	A remote control two-wheel balancing bot
"They Shall Walk"...	The Tetsujin bot	I don't know what these tires go to, but I want one!	Back home, total of 3,646 miles