Changes: A-Kill

Revision as of 12:56, 3 April 2013

For the middleweight robot from the same team, see A-Kill (Middleweight).

"Their mission - to boldly go where no robot has gone before"

— Jonathan Pearce

A-Kill was a competitor robot from Series 6 of Robot Wars. It was based on the middleweight version of A-Kill which competed in the middleweight competition in Series 3. It featured a large arsenal of weapons, all very weak. It had a hammer that the team claimed could crush a strawberry, a lifter that the team claimed could lift a skin off a rice pudding and a spinning disc described as looking like two dustbin lids stuck together, none of which cost more than £10. It was a 2mm plate steel box, that managed to avoid huge damage in its first battle, but lost in a boring second round battle to Panic Attack.

The driver, Gordon Johncock, only ended up as the driver for A-Kill because Chris Delph had posted an advert in the newspaper that read 'Assistant Wanted for Robot Wars, Do you want to be a driver?'. Chris was after someone outside of Robot Wars to have a go at being a member of the team. A number of people applied for the position but apparantly Gordon was the only applicant to not feel on edge for being requested to drive the robot in the series.

After the Sixth Wars, the team sold A-Kill on eBay, to finance the creation of their latest robot: Saw Point, which was entered in the second series of Extreme and the Seventh Wars.

The team also entered various robots, such as Mini-Whizz and Whizz-Bang, into Robot Wars sister show Techno Games.

Robot History

Series 6

A-Kill did very little in its first battle as Terrorhurtz came straight at it and began hammering it until one of the hubcaps came off.

"Ohh what's that its come off of A-Kill!"

— Jonathan Pearce

However, the slow and sluggish Reptirron The Second and equally disappointing Sabre Tooth had already been immobilized from a few strikes of Terrorhurtz's axe, so A-Kill progressed with Terrorhurtz. The next round was less exciting, as Panic Attack merely lifted and pushed A-Kill around the arena, the hammer caused no damage at all and the lifter was to high to do anything. After a while Panic Attack then pitted it to conclude a very boring fight.

Results

A-KILL - RESULTS
Series 6
The Sixth Wars - UK Championship Heat, Round 2
Heat I, Round 1	vs. Terrorhurtz, Sabre Tooth, Reptirron The Second	Qualified
Heat I, Round 2	vs. Panic Attack (8)	Lost

Wins/Losses

Wins: 1
Losses: 1

Series Record

Series 1-2: Did not enter
Series 3: Middleweight Competition with A-Kill
Series 4-5: Did not enter
Series 6: Heat, Round 2
Series 7: Entered with Saw Point

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 |team          = [[Team A-Kill]]
 |team_members  = Chris Delph<br/>Ryan Delph<br/>Gordon Johncock
-|other_entries = [[A-Kill (Middleweight)]]<br/><small>(Series 3)</small><br/>[[Saw Point (Series 7)|Saw Point]]<br/><small>(Series 7, Extreme 2)</small>
 |weight        = 91kg
 |dimensions    = 0.42m x 1.38m x 0.90m