The Critter Crunch this year was as fun as ever.  FRR did our usual warm-up show before the start of the Critter combat.  Dennis Clark did a great job again doing the MC work.  We showed our Mini-Sumos, Object Grabbers, and our version of Autonomous Critters.  In-between the small and larger critter competitions we moved out to a main walk way and showed lots of folks our robots.  Folks really seem to like the aggressive and plucky little Mini-Sumos.  The Object Grabbers again captured the possibilities of real robots doing real work in the real world!  Right photo is some of our autonomous Critters showing there fight!  The nice thing about the larger class robots is they had lots of battery power, so we ran them a lot!  Click on a picture for a larger version.

Terrys pioneering Field Theory Critter, fully autonomous and using his Theremin Vision sensor system got is first taste of battle!  Left is Field Theory going against a RC robot with a air power flipper system.  Terrys bot got tossed around a bit!  Then came a totally unexpected robot in the center photo.  Terrys bot had to contend with a robot with a Tazer mounted on a very simple platform controlled by a tether.  Terrys bot got Zapped!  Loosing one of the four Thermin Vision sensors.  Blurry photo right shows the 1 1/2" 120,000 volt arc!  Terry already hads a solution to make the electronics able to survive such a nasty bot!

These photos are of other larger 20 pound remote controlled Critters.  Including one of Terrys large Critters in the right photo, getting a quick charge.

Terry Fritz was the busiest of us, being he had three Critters in this years events!  Left, Terry wins! Center, Terry gets hit hard!  Right, Terrys bot doesn't win every time!  This year Terrys Ti-Wrex came in second place, Ti-Tan third.  Not as good as last years first place but still really great showing!  The other folks had better watch out for next year!

End of show, all the large robots had a Slug Fest Rumble!