 House of NERC 2004 Event Report
House of NERC 2004 Event Report 
          Another small event in the basment of a firehall in the middle of nowhere, PA. Many folks took the trip for the battle in the basement. This event debut a newly designed 8 ft. box that was just like playing with legos, a bagel hazzard and even bingo. The infamous Nar Karts also made their appearance in the middle of one of the weirdest weather patterns. Overall, just another lazy weekend.
         
         
        Winners
        
          
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                Fairy weight:1st -- Router
 Andrew Peterson Team Ti Joe
 2nd -- Amish Pinwheel of Doom
 Jon Durand Anarchy Robots
 3rd -- Minor Threat
 That Peepzort Guy Team Incredible
 Ant weight:1st -- Mini Buggy of Doom
 Jon Durand Anarchy Robots
 2nd -- Red Heat
 Andrew Peterson Team Ti Joe
 3rd -- Saw Play
 George Hotz Team Titanium Squirrels
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                Beetle weight:1st -- 3PD
 Andrew Peterson Team Ti Joe
 2nd -- The Amish Buggy of Doom V2
 Jon Durand Anarchy Robots
 3rd -- Mini Moo
 Greg "Jr." Dabkowski Team Mad Cow
 Hobby weight:1st -- Rants Pants
 Travis Volpe Team Sporky
 2nd -- Reading Terror Squad
 Jon Durand Anarchy Robots
 3rd -- Gone Postal
 Brian Benson Jr. Robotic Hobbies
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        Here go the thanks... (lessee who I miss this time...) 
        
          
            | Rob & Nar for building and delivering a beautiful arena. We'll work on the door latch later... ;)Assembly crew: No clue. Running around like nut at time.
 Joe: Excellent venue, excellent donuts, and excellent caffeine. Joe also built an new ant insert, which due to math failure on my part didn't get used. Moto, look out.
 Chuck: Box loader extraordinaire, judge, whatever the heck else needed to be done.
 Beth and Michelle: Brackets, scheduling, and Josh-sitting.
 The Bensons and Petersons: These guys help with every setup and teardown - need more dedicated members like this! Thanks guys!
 Gilleski: Checkin, safety, and judging (well, most of the time...)
 | Aaron: Judging Paul: Judging. (Exactly HOW MUCH did you judge, Paul ???)
 Al: Judging in a pinch.
 Anarchy Dude: Registration. Jon also gets the Tony award for most bots entered... In the box - the dude... On deck - the dude... up in 2 fights - the dude. ;)
 Whoever the family was that lent their video camera to John W to tape. (John, did they ever get it back???)
 John W: Sitting there with a camera and tripod as usual. I think Johns been to more events than some of the officers at this point... ;)
 The rest of the NERC officers and members for their continued support and hard work.
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           Seems like after this event, the paradigm is definitely shifting.Peepzort Dude won his first match... Anarchy Dude won a few awards with wedges... (Wait, that hasn't changed a bit.) Junior did not immediately fall into the loser bracket to work his way back up...Paul didn't weld any contactors... All in all, a decent event. Hope the mediocre turnout (41 bots registered, 34 actually showed) is not forecasting the future - Moto 05 in 4 short months... 
        
        
          Motorama Robot Conflict 2004 Event Report 
          The big show is finally over and everyone can finally catch their breath. Now that we have all had some time to recoup, we would like to take a moment and thank everyone who helped make Motorama a success! So much was going on, if we forgot you, please speak up! Close to 150 showed up, but only 7 can say they beat them all...
        Winners 
        
          
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                Fairy weight:1st -- Router
 Andrew Peterson Team Ti Joe
 2nd -- DeeFive
 John A. Parsons Team Slammers
 3rd -- :-)
 Sam Harrington Team Woodchuck
 Ant weight:1st -- POW
 Jake Ewert Team Whyachi
 2nd -- Hard Target
 Paul Ogin Team AC/DC
 3rd -- Tin Mandy
 Alan Young Mad Scientist
 Beetle weight:1st -- The Amish Buggy of Doom V2
 Jon Durand Anarchy Robots
 2nd -- 3A
 Clint Ewert Team Whyachi
 3rd -- Buster Blade
 Jacob Barnes Team Basenji
 Hobby weight:1st -- Ricochet
 Terry Ewert Team Whyachi
 2nd -- Truncation
 Alan Young Mad Scientist
 3rd -- Rants Pants
 Travis Volpe Team Sporky
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                Feather weight:1st -- Morpheus
 Tyler Forbes Team Mad Cow
 2nd -- Killabyte
 John Mladenik Robotic Death Company
 3rd -- Dark Thunder
 Robin P. Pritz Team Neubots
 Light weight:1st -- AGSMA 2
 John Neilson Robotic Death Company
 2nd -- Goosfraba
 Richard Stuplich Killerbotics
 3rd -- Homer
 David Liaw Team Ice
 Middle weight:1st -- SubZero
 Jerry Clarkin/Al Kindle Team Hammertime
 2nd -- Kappa Maki
 Robert Sica Team Diginati
 3rd -- Death Drum
 Wayne Molnar Team Insanity
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        Special Awards
          Most Destructive Bot -- Green Wave - Paul Ventimiglia Team Demolition
          Best Driver -- SubZero - Al Kindle Team Hammertime
          Coolest Bot -- Nar - Eric Scott Team Nar
          Most Crappy Bot To Own You -- ALF
        Dan Provenzano/Sam Harrington/Jon Gowa Team ALF
        Thanks to all our sponsors and to everyone that helped make Motorama a success! 
        [in no particular order]
        
          
            | Brad and Motorama: for giving us a homeJerry: for giving the arena a home, help with loading and unloading
 The Dude: for help everywhere...load, unload, set up, check ins...
 Wayne
 Ed
 Al
 Alan
 Joe and Dan [Joe's son]
 John
 Masek...all around help, setting up walls...
 Nar...all nighter to get walls up
 Kirsten: the hot photo girl
 Bensons. best pit family ever! And Grampa NERC! THANKS!
 Davis': Shortest guy ever to help me put roof trusses up!
 Parsons: best impound police ever! [ssshhhh...don't tell Gilleski]
 Petersons: set-up, tear down. the best!
 | Tony: Anyone notice how black Tony got by Sat afternoon? Great small bot event! Chuck: Helped get Tony ready, helped set up, helped tear down, ref'ed all weekend
 Michelle, fight scheduler
 Beth...bracket wizzard
 Cara...merchandise girl
 Larry Pagano...best board writer
 Glenn Capone...fight loader
 Gilleski...impound, check-ins
 Chris Baron and his family [judging]
 Brian Nelson [judge]
 Greg Ferree [judge]
 Wolan...awesome job filming
 Tier Dude family: set up, tear down, etc
 John's mother in law for babysitting
 Roy: Best announcer EVER! "Who wants it?"
 Builders DB and Marc for help with registration
 Robot Death Co people tear down
 Miss Motorama
 | ALL the sponsors Fuzzy: The Tank is AWESOME!TEAM WHYACHI [and thanks for coming to kick our butts too!]
 BattlePack
 IFI
 Robot Marketplace
 Titanium Joe
 Mondo'tronics Robot Store
 CNC Bot Parts
 PowerWerx
 NPC
 Barello.net
 Robot Power
 Robot Logic
 Team Delta
 Thanks to all of you for the support. | 
        
        And a big thanks to all the competitors who put faith in this little robot club and had a blast!
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