The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships was the 8th UK Championship in a row hosted by Roaming Robots. It was held at London's O2 Arena which is arguably the largest event venue Roaming Robots have hosted an event at making it the biggest event of the year since The 2006 UK Championships at Wicksteed Park in Kettering. The event took place on the 23rd - 24th April 2011 and was won by Ripper Evo.

It has been the most sucessful UK Championship held by Roaming Robots to date with the newly improved arena, added pyrotechnics, golden oldies making appearances, new presenter and it was also Robot Wars House Robot Matilda's debut as Featherweight House Robot after retiring.

Contents 1 Arena 2 Robots Competing 3 Seeds 4 Heats 4.1 Heat A 4.2 Heat B 4.3 Heat C 4.4 Heat D 4.5 Heat E 4.6 Heat F 4.7 Heat G 4.8 Heat H 4.9 Heat I 4.10 Losers Melees 5 Finals 5.1 Round 1 5.2 Losers Melees 5.3 Quarter-Finals 5.4 Semi-Finals 5.5 3rd-Place Play-off 5.6 Grand-Final 6 Other Competitions 6.1 Annihilator

ArenaEdit

The arena was re-modified for this years UK Championships, it was given a facelift at the Barnsley event on the 13th February but the finalised version debuted at the event. It had been given ropes to go around two of the sides and the back end were the roboteers stand had been designed to look like there was control pods.

When it came to arming robots up for battles, there was a difference to make the show a lot more like Robot Wars. Instead of the roboteers arming up their robots from the side of the arena, a bullpen was built and the roboteers drove their robots through doors into the arena after arming up.

Robots CompetingEdit

The champs had 36 robots signing up to it (plus 4 robots only appearing in white board battles). As well as the seeded robots from last years UK Championships looking to be in attendance, European roboteers from Holland, Belgium & Germany had shown interest in attending. Robots that had feautured in TVs Robot Wars that were now retired like Lightning, 13 Black, Pussycat & the Plunderbird series also made an appearance to go on static display

The following 40 robots signed-up to the event:

• Batterbot
• Beast
• Behemoth
• Bullfrog Breed
• Big Nipper
• Chimera
• Dantomkia
• Disc-struction!
• Disturbed
• Envy
• Gravity 5.1
• Iron Awe 5
• Iron-Awe 6
• Kan-Opener
• Kronic
• Maelstrom
• Mantis
• Meggamouse
• Merlin
• Pussycat
• Pressure
• Ripper Evo
• Scorpion
• Scott 2
• SMIDSY
• St Hammer
• Stinger
• Storm II
• Terminal Ferocity
• TerrorHurtz
• Thor
• Tiberius 4
• Tilly Evo
• Tilly XP
• Toon Raider
• Tough As Nails
• Toxic 2
• Weird mAlice
• White Knight
• Wilhelm's Scream

SeedsEdit

The 2011 UK championsips has 9 seeds, based on where they came in the 2010 UK championships.

1) Iron Awe 5

2) Ripper Evo

3) Iron Awe 6

4) Maelstrom

5) Meggamouse

6) Tilly XP

7) Thor

8) Toon Raider

9) Big Nipper

HeatsEdit

There will be 9 heats of 4 robots, with one seed in each. All robots in the first round fought it out in a 4-way melee where the winner preceeded on to the finals. The 9 robots that finished 2nd in their respected battles fought in three 3-way loser melee battles giving 3 winners to go on to the next round to join the other 9 to make 12.

Heat AEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Heat A

Competing Robots : Iron Awe 5, Tough As Nails, Terminal Ferocity & Scott 2 (Note: Scott 2 were unable to attend the event)

Winners : Iron-Awe 5

Heat BEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Heat B

Competing Robots : Ripper Evo, TerrorHurtz, Envy & Batterbot

Winners : Ripper Evo

Heat CEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Heat C

Competing Robots : Iron Awe 6, Stinger, Dantomkia & Merlin (Note: Stinger suffered mechanichal faults and were unable to enter the arena)

Winners : Merlin

Heat DEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Heat D

Competing Robots : Maelstrom, Behemoth, Pressure & Weird mAlice

Winners : Maelstrom

Heat EEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Heat E

Competing Robots : Meggamouse, White Knight, Wilhelm's Scream & Mantis

Winners : Meggamouse

Heat FEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Heat F

Competing Robots : Tilly XP, Disc-struction, Tilly Evo & Bullfrog Breed

Winners : Tilly Evo

Heat GEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Heat G

Competing Robots : Thor, Chimera, Tiberius 4 & Storm 2

Winners : Thor

Heat HEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Heat H

Competing Robots : Toon Raider, Beast, Disturbed & Scorpion

Winners : Scorpion

Heat IEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Heat I

Competing Robots : Big Nipper, Toxic 2, Gravity 5.1 & St Hammer (Note: Gravity 5.1 suffered mechanical faults and were unable to enter the arena)

Winners : Toxic 2

Losers MeleesEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Losers Melees

• Tough As Nails Vs Pressure Vs Tiberius 4

• Big Nipper Vs Dantomkia Vs Wilhelm's Scream

• Envy Vs Disc-Truction! Vs Disturbed

FinalsEdit

Round 1Edit

• Big Nipper vs Tiberius 4 vs Meggamouse vs Toxic 2

• Scorpion vs Merlin vs Iron Awe 5 vs Thor

• Envy vs Ripper Evo vs Tilly Evo vs Maelstrom

Losers MeleesEdit

• Envy vs Scorpion vs Tiberius 4 (Note: Tiberius 4 suffered mechanical problems and was unable to compete)
• Thor vs Meggamouse vs Tilly Evo (Note: Tilly Evo suffered mechanical problems and was unable to compete)

Quarter-FinalsEdit

• Thor vs Toxic 2

• Envy vs Big Nipper

• Maelstrom vs Ripper Evo

• Iron Awe 5 vs Merlin

Semi-FinalsEdit

• Thor Vs Envy
• Ripper Evo Vs Iron-Awe 5

3rd-Place Play-offEdit

• Thor vs Iron Awe 5

3rd-Place Winner : Iron-Awe 5

Grand-FinalEdit

• Envy Vs Ripper Evo

2011 UK Champion : Ripper Evo

Other CompetitionsEdit

After the first round and loser's melees of the UK Championships had passed, a handful of the losing robots were picked to participate in 2 side competitions. There was the 2011 Annihilator Championships and the 2011 International Challenge.

AnnihilatorEdit

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: Annihilator The Annihilator feautured 6 robots that in the same way as on Robot Wars, fought it out in the first round only that instead of there being one robot going out ever battle, two would get elliminated in the first round leading to a four-way final fighting for the right to be crowned 2011 Annihilator Champion. The reason for this difference was because of the lack of time the show organisers had to organise a full Annihilator Competition.

Competing Robots

• Beast
• Terrorhurtz
• Tough As Nails
• Kronic
• Behemoth
• Storm 2

Round 1

Beast Vs Terrorhurtz Vs Tough As Nails Vs Kronic Vs Behemoth Vs Storm 2

Elliminated : Behemoth & Storm 2

Final

Beast Vs Terrorhurtz Vs Tough As Nails Vs Kronic

2011 Annihilator Champion : Kronic

===International Challenge===

Main Article : The 2011 Heavyweight UK Championships: International Challenge

The International Challenge was a 3-way melee consisting of 3 robots from all over the world and they had a fight in the arena to see which country was the best in the game.

Fight

Storm 2 (UK) Vs Tough As Nails (Belgium) Vs Gravity 5.1 (Holland)

2011 International Challenge Winner : Tough As Nails (Belgium)