RFL 2004 National Championships Videos (Robots)
This page will eventually host 320×240 full rate Quicktimes of all of the non-insect fights recorded at the 2004 Robot Fighting League National Championships in San Francisco. If you were a participant at this event and would like a 2 DVD-R set of all these fights, just contact me. These discs are only available to competitors and event staff at this time. Make sure you let me know where to send the discs, etc.
They are recorded as MPEG4 quicktimes, so you will need Quicktime 6 or better to view them. As they are fairly large and my bandwidth is not, please be patient as they may load quite slowly.
These videos are © 2004 AnimEigo / RSA. If you are a builder, you may make copies of the fights and interviews featuring your robot, for your personal use and for use on your team websites. All other use or redistribution is forbidden without written permission of RSA and AnimEigo.
The rating (from 1-10) is my personal subjective rating of how exciting the video segment is, for use in deciding which fights make any commercial DVDs. Your mileage may vary, and don't take any comments personally, after a full day of editing I get a bit sarcastic.
Sorry about the borked HTML here, things corrode over time.
| **Class** | **Video** | **Rating** | **Description** |
| Special | CycloneBot | 10 | CycloneBot demo |
| Special | The Black Mamba vs. Who's your Daddy? | 5 | Grudge Match: Quick KO |
| Special | Super Megabyte vs. OUCH! | 7 | Some good sparks, and you can actually see the floor plates flexing on some of the hits! |
| Hobbyweight | Io vs. Target Practice | 5 | Pushfest |
| Hobbyweight | NumbSkull vs. Dandelion | 6 | One nice hit |
| Hobbyweight | Romulus vs. Lil Shocker | 5 | Some nice box-rushes |
| Hobbyweight | Chigger vs. Twelve Pound Spider (formerly “Clumper” | 4 | Active fight, but Chigger has no weapon, so a pushfest |
| Hobbyweight | Shish vs. VD2.0 | 7 | Some nice hits, and one robot breaks his thingie according to Roy. |
| Hobbyweight | Solaris vs. Remus | 8 | Some serious airtime! |
| Hobbyweight | Spatula vs. Scratch | 4 | Basic pushyfight |
| Hobbyweight | Mr. Shadow vs. Underdog | 4 | One-sided |
| Hobbyweight | Target Practice vs. NumbSkull | 5 | Target Practice practices wearing a new hat |
| Hobbyweight | Lil Shocker vs. Chigger | 5 | Quick pitting |
| Hobbyweight | Shish vs. Solaris | 4 | A quick trip to the pit |
| Hobbyweight | Scratch vs. Mr. Shadow | 4 | Quick simultaneous KO |
| Hobbyweight | Target Practice vs. Lil Shocker | 3 | Wedge war |
| Hobbyweight | Shish vs. Mr. Shadow | 5 | The toughest weapon in the tournament is the arena bumpers! |
| Hobbyweight | Target Practice vs. Shish | 4 | Wedge War |
| Hobbyweight | Io vs. Dandelion | 7 | Nice fight with some decent airtime |
| Hobbyweight | Romulus vs. Twelve Pound Spider (formarlly “Clumper” | 5 | Active pushfest |
| Hobbyweight | VD2.0 vs. Remus | 6 | Some nice sparks |
| Hobbyweight | Spatula vs. Underdog | 3 | Driving problems |
| Hobbyweight | Dandelion vs. Scratch | 3 | Mysterious K.O. |
| Hobbyweight | Twelve Pound Spider (formarlly “Clumper” vs. Solaris | 5 | Basic fight |
| Hobbyweight | VD2.0 vs. Chigger | 5 | When good SRIMechs go bad... |
| Hobbyweight | Underdog vs. NumbSkull | 3 | No weapon = pushyfight |
| Hobbyweight | Scratch vs. Solaris | 6 | Basic buttkicking |
| Hobbyweight | Chigger vs. NumbSkull | 3 | Quick KO wedgewar, with entertaining RoyBlithering™ |
| Hobbyweight | Solaris vs. Lil Shocker | 4 | Quick pit-out |
| Hobbyweight | NumbSkull vs. Mr. Shadow | 5 | Good basic fight |
| Hobbyweight | Lil Shocker vs. Mr. Shadow | 6 | It's da pits |
| Hobbyweight | Lil Shocker vs. Shish | 4 | Wedge on Wedge action |
| Hobbyweight | Solaris vs. Spatula | 8 | Brick + Drum = Airtime |
| Featherweight | Helios vs. Beelzebub | 6 | The Pit of Inconvenience strikes! |
| Featherweight | Sunflower vs. Green Eye Silver Dragon | 6 | Once nice bit of airtime |
| Featherweight | Totally Manipulative (was Anorexia) vs. VD3.3HF (hellfire) | 5 | I once again demonstrate my total lack of driving skill. |
| Featherweight | Doom vs. Totally Offensive | 7 | T.O. skates to victory |
| Featherweight | Morpheus vs. Kick-me Mo | 3 | Morpheus commits suicide by throwing itself in the Pit of Inconvenience™ |
| Featherweight | The Bully vs. Killabyte | 6 | The Bully repeatedly whacks his head into Killabyte's shell. |
| Featherweight | Beelzebub vs. Bear Tracks | 3 | Quick KO |
| Featherweight | TS vs. Sunflower | 5 | Sunflower feels claustrophobic and leaps out of the arena! |
| Featherweight | VD3.3HF (hellfire) vs. Totally Offensive | 9 | What the father could not do, the children achieve. Team Mad Overlord's long awaited vengeance on VD3. |
| Featherweight | Kick-me Mo vs. The Bully | 3 | Slow motion fight |
| Featherweight | Bear Tracks vs. TS | 6 | Okay, I admit it, I like bar spinners... |
| Featherweight | Totally Offensive vs. The Bully | 8 | TO keeps hitting, and The Bully keeps coming back for more. The only TO fight at Nationals that went the distance |
| Featherweight | Bear Tracks vs. Totally Offensive | 7 | When two nasty bar spinners go head to head, there's sure to be parts flyin' and robots dyin' |
| Featherweight | Totally Manipulative (was Anorexia) vs. Doom | 3 | Trebor can't drive, he no good at it, Trebor can't drive, he suck bad... |
| Featherweight | Morpheus vs. Killabyte | 5 | Some nice sparks |
| Featherweight | Helios vs. Kick-me Mo | 6 | Thwack! Thank you sir, may I have another? Thwack! |
| Featherweight | Green Eye Silver Dragon vs. VD3.3HF (hellfire) | 8 | Flame on, Baby! |
| Featherweight | Doom vs. Sunflower | 6 | You know you're in trouble when your KE-bot opponent turns off the weapon... |
| Featherweight | Morpheus vs. Beelzebub | 5 | Jr gets owned... |
| Featherweight | Helios vs. VD3.3HF (hellfire) | 7 | Great fight, good airtime, and a great blow at the buzzer! |
| Featherweight | Sunflower vs. Beelzebub | 6 | Some nice airtime, but not by whom you'd expect... |
| Featherweight | VD3.3HF (hellfire) vs. TS | 3 | Quick pushout |
| Featherweight | Sunflower vs. The Bully | 8 | A primer on how to beat a drumbot. Only one slo-mo because there's no dead periods in the fight! |
| Featherweight | VD3.3HF (hellfire) vs. The Bully | 7 | Literal Knockout |
| Featherweight | VD3.3HF (hellfire) vs. Bear Tracks | 7 | Whack! Whack! Whack! |
| Lightweight | The Droogosh vs. New Attitude | 7 | You're out! Literally! |
| Lightweight | The Coyote vs. Hexy Jr | 6 | A couple of nice flips |
| Lightweight | Ground Zero vs. Wiped Out | 8 | When robots get stuck on each other, you have to pry them apart with a crowbar! |
| Lightweight | New Attitude vs. Wipe Out #2 | 7 | Everything a wedge battle ought to be! |
| Lightweight | AGSMA vs. Hexy Jr | 3 | Getting stuck in a seam only delays the defeat of one of these robots |
| Lightweight | Matts Slammer vs. VD4.0 | 7 | Off with his head, then throw out the trash! |
| Lightweight | Ground Zero vs. West Side Glory (Slap Em Silly) | 6 | It's turtle time! |
| Lightweight | Wipe Out #2 vs. AGSMA | 6 | Good old-fashion headbanging |
| Lightweight | VD4.0 vs. West Side Glory (Slap Em Silly) | 4 | Sparks and shoving |
| Lightweight | Wipe Out #2 vs. West Side Glory (Slap Em Silly) | 6 | Wipe Out can't cling on... |
| Lightweight | The Droogosh vs. Ground Zero | 6 | Ground Zero breaks a tooth |
| Lightweight | The Coyote vs. Matts Slammer | 3 | Driving problems |
| Lightweight | Ground Zero vs. The Coyote | 7 | Quick KO, some good hits |
| Lightweight | Hexy Jr vs. New Attitude | 6 | Simultaneous pitting! |
| Lightweight | Ground Zero vs. AGSMA | 8 | Lots of great hits with airtime |
| Lightweight | New Attitude vs. VD4.0 | 5 | Great start |
| Lightweight | Ground Zero vs. New Attitude | 7 | Short fight, but good hits |
| Lightweight | Ground Zero vs. Wipe Out #2 | 8 | So many hits that I didn't have time for much slomo! |
| Middleweight | Swamp Thing vs. Nefarious | 8 | This one ends in a literal knockout! |
| Middleweight | Nefarious vs. Another Boring Wedge | 6 | Nefarious finds himself pitted against a wedge. |
| Middleweight | Nasty Attitude vs. Devil's Plunger | 8 | I ain't 'fraid of no pit! |
| Middleweight | Killjoy vs. The Black Mamba | 5 | Breaking up is hard to do, even if I use a crowbar on you... |
| Middleweight | Stahl vs. Max Wedge | 4 | Quick KO |
| Middleweight | Another Boring Wedge vs. Devil's Plunger | 6 | Energetic wedge fight |
| Middleweight | Killjoy vs. Max Wedge | 7 | If da weapon it break, da wedge it be verry verry happy! |
| Middleweight | Devil's Plunger vs. Max Wedge | 9 | Non-stop back and forth asskicking! No dead time for instant-replays. One of the all-time best wedge-on-wedge fights! |
| Middleweight | Swamp Thing vs. Stahl | 8 | About as good as a wedge-war gets! |
| Middleweight | Stahl vs. The Black Mamba | 4 | Unusual simultaneous dual bumper wedging. |
| Middleweight | Nasty Attitude vs. Nefarious | 5 | Drivetrain problems render Nefarious not nasty at all. |
| Middleweight | Stahl vs. Another Boring Wedge | 6 | Good energetic wedgewar |
| Middleweight | Nasty Attitude vs. Killjoy | 8 | You're outta there! |
| Middleweight | Stahl vs. Nasty Attitude | 8 | Great wedge fight |
| Middleweight | Nasty Attitude vs. Devil's Plunger | 7 | Two great wedges, two great drivers, one annoying pit. |
| Heavyweight | CycloneBot vs. Vicious Circle | 6 | Some nice hits, before the cyclone dissipates... |
| Heavyweight | Megabyte vs. SJ | 10 | See Megabyte Bounce! Bounce, Megabyte, Bounce! |
| Heavyweight | Vicious Circle vs. Shiva | 6 | Some nice sparks in this one |
| Heavyweight | SuperFly vs. SJ | 4 | Mechanical problems early. |
| Heavyweight | Vicious Circle vs. SJ | 6 | Nice sparks! |
| Heavyweight | CycloneBot vs. SuperFly | 6 | Gotta love those LEDs |
| Heavyweight | CycloneBot vs. Megabyte | 7 | Quick whacking. Whack! Whack! |
| Heavyweight | Megabyte vs. Vicious Circle | 8 | The ending of this fight can only be described one way: One robot gets royally shucked. |
| HeavyweightOpen | Spinning Mayhem vs. Final Verdict | 5 | Quick KO |
| HeavyweightOpen | Spinning Mayhem vs. Indestructable Crazy Blue Monkey (I.C.B.M.) | 6 | Flat spots on bots - bad... |
| HeavyweightOpen | Spinning Mayhem vs. Stormovik | 5 | The only thing worse for a spinner than being upside down is balancing on one's side... |
| HeavyweightOpen | Spinning Mayhem vs. Sewer Snake | 3 | Spinner gets cornered |
| HeavyweightOpen | Final Verdict vs. Stormovik | 6 | One nice hit |
| HeavyweightOpen | Final Verdict vs. Sewer Snake | 3 | Final Verdict can't spin up |
| HeavyweightOpen | Indestructable Crazy Blue Monkey (I.C.B.M.) vs. Stormovik | 5 | Pushyfight |
| HeavyweightOpen | Indestructable Crazy Blue Monkey (I.C.B.M.) vs. Sewer Snake | 6 | Quick buttkicking |
| HeavyweightOpen | Indestructable Crazy Blue Monkey (I.C.B.M.) vs. Speedy | 3 | Speedy smokes up a storm |
| HeavyweightOpen | Stormovik vs. Sewer Snake | 4 | One robot has immedite drive problems |
| SuperHeavyweight | Tombstone vs. SHOVELHEAD | 7 | A quick whacking... Nothing personal, it's just business. |
| SuperHeavyweight | Tombstone vs. Alcoholic Stepfather 3.0 | 7 | Starts out great, then things break or run out of gas. |
| SuperHeavyweight | Tombstone vs. Blue Engine | 8 | R.I.P. L.B.E. |
| SuperHeavyweight | Tombstone vs. Super Megabyte | 7 | The great rivalry continues. |
| SuperHeavyweight | SHOVELHEAD vs. Alcoholic Stepfather 3.0 | 8 | Alcoholic Stepfather gets the bum's rush -- and ends up in the gutter. |
| SuperHeavyweight | SHOVELHEAD vs. Blue Engine | 7 | Big bruising bots bash bodaciously! |
| SuperHeavyweight | SHOVELHEAD vs. Super Megabyte | 4 | Super M gets cornered |
| SuperHeavyweight | Alcoholic Stepfather 3.0 vs. Little Blue Engine | 8 | Flame on, baby! Alcoholic Stepfather overloads our cameras! |
| SuperHeavyweight | Alcoholic Stepfather 3.0 vs. Super Megabyte | 8 | Flame on, dude! It's spinner flambe for dinner! |
| SuperHeavyweight | Blue Engine vs. Super Megabyte | 8 | 1 minute of solid sparking! |
| SuperHeavyweight | Tombstone vs. SHOVELHEAD | 5 | The wear and t ear of a long tournament makes the difference when the mega-spinner meets the ber-brick! |
| Championship | Lil Shocker vs. Target Practice | 5 | Wittle Wedges Whack Willy-Nilly in this Championship Match |
| Championship | Bear Tracks vs. Totally Offensive | 7 | The two nastiest spinners in the Featherweight class take turns kicking the living crap out of each other |
| Championship | Ground Zero vs. West Side Glory (Slap Em Silly) | 6 | A classic confrontation; Titanium-armored Wedge vs. Full Body Spinner |
| Championship | Devil's Plunger vs. Max Wedge | 8 | You know it's a great fight when there's no time for instant replays! Two great wedges with two great drivers put on a show! |
| Championship | Megabyte vs. SJ | 7 | Strategy will be the key to victory in the Heavyweight Finals |