Pressure

Pressure
Pressure in Extreme 2
Participation Information
UK Series	Extreme 2
Team Information
Team	Wind Power
Team Members	Mike Hamilton-Macy Adam Hamilton-Macy Charlotte Hamilton-Macy
Robot Statistics
Weight	100kg
Dimensions	0.56m x 1.00m x 0.75m
Power	Electric motors
Weapons	Axe, Flipper & Rear Lifter
Statistics correct as of its most recent show/competition appearance, or if not applicable, qualification attempt.

"But has never come under any pressure before!"

— Jonathan Pearce introduces Pressure

Pressure was a roughly half cylinder shaped robot, resembling a cross between a shark and a submarine, that entered in the second series of Robot Wars Extreme. Pressure had a 2mm steel shell and chassis, inline wheel drive and five CO₂ powered weapons (a front flipper, rear lifter, a self righting panel on each side and a axe). In all three of its fights, the spikes were removed from the side panels.

It was entered in the Extreme Series 2 New Blood Championship, where it fared reasonably well, only losing out on a Grand Final place to Cedric Slammer.

Work on Pressure was started in 2000, and the robot was originally intended to enter Series 6, but the team missed the qualifying deadline due to making various repairs and improvements to Pressure.

Pressure was rebuilt for Series 7 to just have two lifters (the front one made larger) and a larger axe, but failed to qualify. Pressure fought Thunderpants, King B Powerworks and M2 in its qualifier for Series 7.

Robot History

Extreme 2

Pressure, inside the arena.

In the first round of the final Heat of the New Blood Championship, Pressure was placed up against Bash Gordon and Cedric Slammer. In the battle, Bash Gordon stayed largely out of the way at first, leaving Pressure to take some serious damage from Cedric Slammer. Pressure tried to get away, but was too sluggish. Meanwhile, Bash Gordon was only spinning in circles with its axe not working. Bash Gordon eventually fell into the pit of oblivion, putting Cedric Slammer and Pressure through to the next round.

Pressure lifts Piranha up

In the second round, Pressure was drawn against Piranha. Pressure took advantage of Piranha's inaccurate axe blows to lift and slam it into Matilda's CPZ, where the house robot's flywheel flayed part of Piranha's shell. Piranha fought back, pushing Pressure towards Shunt's CPZ this time, where some axe blows rained down on Pressure, however little damage was caused. A pushing match ensued between the pair, with neither machine's weapons doing significant damage at all. The battle ended in a judges' decision where the judges ruled in favour of Pressure due to the damage Piranha sustained by Matilda, sending Pressure through to the Heat Final, where it fought Cedric Slammer again.

Cedric Slammer almost immediately caused damage to Pressure's front scoop, but Pressure was quite aggressive, pushing Cedric Slammer around the arena and into a CPZ, although it was vacant. Pressure was scratched and took small damage from the glancing attacks from Cedric Slammer, until one of Pressure's side flippers wouldn't close due to the damage taken. Despite all the damage Pressure had sustained, it finished the battle on top, pushing Cedric Slammer into another CPZ where Sir Killalot picked it up and flung it across the arena. Pressure took too much damage to sway the judges' decision towards it.

Results

• Pressure in qualifiers for Series 7
• Pressure from 2005 to 2007
• Pressure, as it looks today, which debuted in 2007
• Team Wind Powers's featherweight, Skink

1/4

Wins/Losses

• Wins: 2
• Losses: 1

Series Record

• Series 1-6: Did not enter
• Series 7: Failed to qualify

Robot Wars Live Events

The latest version of Pressure made its first appearance at the new Robot Wars live events in Colchester in April 2013.

Outside Robot Wars

Pressure has been rebuilt twice since Robot Wars. The first time was in 2005, when Pressure was turned into a trapezoid shaped, polycarbonite armoured robot with a single flipper. This version was retired in 2007 because of damage cause by Kan-Opener and Terrorhurtz. Later that year, the team created a new version, a tall wedge with a powerful flipper, which still fights on the live circuit today. The team has also won two events with their featherweight machine Skink.

Trivia

• Pressure was the only New Blood competitor to fall at the Heat Final stage that didn't compete in the Sixth Wars.
• Before entering Robot Wars, the Pressure team had a business for hiring bouncy castles and other large inflatables called "Wind Bags". The team were going to call themselves Team Wind Bags, but Robot Wars does not allow company advertising, so changed their name to Team Wind Power.

External Links

• [http://web.archive.org/web/20040520041447/http://www.windbags.co.uk/ Team Wind Power website (Archived)