NPC Charity Open Videos (Robots)
This page contains 320×240 full rate Quicktimes of all of the non-insect fights recorded at the NPC Charity Open.
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 / MMER. 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 MMER 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.
Apologies for the borked HTML!
| **Class** | **Video** | **Rating** | **Description** |
| Special | Hydraulic Robot | 10 | Demonstration of hydraulic walker |
| Special | Rumble | 8 | Some good hits |
| Lightweight | Mini Madd vs. Little Black Box | 5 | Good basic active fight |
| Lightweight | Little Black Box vs. YU812 | 3 | YU812's spinner breaks on the first hit |
| Lightweight | Goosfraba vs. Insomnia | 5 | Goosfraba helps Insomnia do a Bozo the Clown doll impression |
| Lightweight | Wipe Out #2 vs. HazMatXD | 5 | Wedge Wars! |
| Lightweight | AGSMA vs. Prosecutor | 6 | The Prosecutor's arguments have trouble hitting the mark |
| Lightweight | Backlash vs. J.R.C.V. | 5 | Backlash loses its bearings |
| Lightweight | Slyder vs. Speed Bump | 3 | Wedge Wars! |
| Lightweight | Amish Rebellion vs. Rotato | 6 | Hit me with your best shot... Ouch! |
| Lightweight | Llamakazi vs. Peanut | 4 | Wedge Wars! |
| Lightweight | Little Black Box vs. Goosfraba | 5 | Pushfest |
| Lightweight | Wipe Out #2 vs. AGSMA | 5 | Decent fight, sticky ending. |
| Lightweight | J.R.C.V. vs. Speed Bump | 3 | Pushfest |
| Lightweight | Rotato vs. Llamakazi | 8 | A Ti shell makes for one of the sparkiest fights of the tournament |
| Lightweight | Goosfraba vs. Wipe Out #2 | 7 | Simple robots but great drivers! |
| Lightweight | Speed Bump vs. Rotato | 6 | Rotato! It slices! It dices! It makes jullienne french fries! |
| Lightweight | Wipe Out #2 vs. Rotato | 5 | There's a whole lot of spinnin' goin' on. |
| Lightweight | Peanut vs. Amish Rebellion | 5 | Back and forth but with a surprise ending |
| Lightweight | Slyder vs. Backlash | 8 | Backlash finally gets to the chewy goodness inside |
| Lightweight | Prosecutor vs. HazMatXD | 6 | The Prosecutor runs into a Slick Defense Attorney |
| Lightweight | Insomnia vs. YU812 | 8 | Two spinners go at it bigtime |
| Lightweight | Amish Rebellion vs. AGSMA | 6 | Good basic pushfest |
| Lightweight | Backlash vs. Little Black Box | 7 | Great box rush at the start of the fight! |
| Lightweight | HazMatXD vs. Llamakazi | 5 | Pushfest |
| Lightweight | YU812 vs. J.R.C.V. | 8 | YU took an axe, and gave JR 40 whacks... per second! |
| Lightweight | AGSMA vs. Backlash | 5 | Quick KO |
| Lightweight | Llamakazi vs. YU812 | 6 | YU812 tries to grind one out |
| Lightweight | Backlash vs. Speed Bump | 4 | Speed Bump starts out in bad shape and things go down from there. |
| Lightweight | YU812 vs. Goosfraba | 4 | Starts out good, but weapon failure ensues |
| Lightweight | Backlash vs. Goosfraba | 7 | Backlash has a case of impotence. Jim just can't keep it up... right... |
| Lightweight | Goosfraba vs. Rotato | 2 | Quick breakdown |
| Lightweight | Goosfraba vs. Wipe Out #2 | 6 | Good active fight |
| Middleweight | Norbert vs. Red Square | 5 | Red Square finally manages to flip an opponent! |
| Middleweight | floor jack vs. Papercut | 9 | Short but very explosive! |
| Middleweight | Mjr. Punishment vs. Icewave | 10 | The robot went kaboom, daddy! |
| Middleweight | Red Square vs. SubZero | 4 | Two flippers, but not much flipping |
| Middleweight | Falconizer vs. Swamp Thing | 7 | Falconizer grinds one out |
| Middleweight | Devil's Plunger vs. Easty Beast | 7 | Two great drivers show us how it's done |
| Middleweight | floor jack vs. Blue Flame | 10 | One of the best fights of the year; nasty spinner vs. experienced flipper |
| Middleweight | sabotage vs. Mjr. Punishment | 5 | Nice straightforward fight |
| Middleweight | Adonai vs. WarSaw | 6 | Adonai teaches us how to handle a spinner |
| Middleweight | Death Drum vs. Speed Bump XL | 3 | Both robots have problems |
| Middleweight | Z.I.P. vs. Bot Named Sue | 5 | Basic fight |
| Middleweight | SubZero vs. Falconizer | 4 | Falconizer's weapon wasn't working |
| Middleweight | Devil's Plunger vs. floor jack | 7 | So what if my flipper got ripped off in the last fight? It's just a scratch! BN I can still take you, yah big pansy! |
| Middleweight | sabotage vs. Adonai | 5 | A few nice lifts by Sabotage |
| Middleweight | Speed Bump XL vs. Z.I.P. | 4 | Pushfest |
| Middleweight | SubZero vs. Devil's Plunger | 8 | Nothing fancy. Just great driving. |
| Middleweight | sabotage vs. Z.I.P. | 8 | Basic Brutal Bipartisan Buttkicking Bout |
| Middleweight | Devil's Plunger vs. Z.I.P. | 7 | Two big bruisers bust each others ball-bearings. |
| Middleweight | Norbert vs. Bot Named Sue | 3 | Pushfest |
| Middleweight | Papercut vs. Mjr. Punishment | 9 | Papercut gets the Major to blow off some steam... or rather, some CO2 |
| Middleweight | Icewave vs. Blue Flame | 4 | Starts out great but both robots quickly get damaged. |
| Middleweight | Norbert vs. Death Drum | 4 | Drum had spinup problems |
| Middleweight | WarSaw vs. Papercut | 7 | Papercut's blade just barely scrapes along the top of WarSaw |
| Middleweight | Blue Flame vs. Easty Beast | 3 | Early weapon breakdown makes for an easy victory |
| Middleweight | Swamp Thing vs. Red Square | 4 | Thwackbot vs. speed bump |
| Middleweight | Norbert vs. floor jack | 6 | Two two-wheeled triangular terrors tussle titanically! |
| Middleweight | Papercut vs. Falconizer | 7 | Quick, fun KO |
| Middleweight | Easty Beast vs. Speed Bump XL | 5 | Nice basic fight |
| Middleweight | Red Square vs. Adonai | 7 | Adonai manages to get into Red Square's skirts, and gets flipped off for his cheekiness. |
| Middleweight | floor jack vs. Falconizer | 9 | Evisceration... E-vis-cer-aaa-aaa-shun... It's makin' me hurt... |
| Middleweight | Easty Beast vs. Red Square | 7 | This continues to be the tournament where Red Square actually manages to flip his opponents! |
| Middleweight | Falconizer vs. sabotage | 8 | Brutal airtime! |
| Middleweight | Red Square vs. SubZero | 4 | Red Square shreds his kevlar. |
| Middleweight | Falconizer vs. SubZero | 7 | Falconizer rips off SubZero's flipping tongue, and then gets really mean! |
| Middleweight | Falconizer vs. Z.I.P. | 8 | That drum on Falconizer is just plain mean. |
| Middleweight | Falconizer vs. Devil's Plunger | 7 | Falconizer gets its wings clipped. |
| Heavyweight | Botknocker19 vs. Final Verdict | 4 | Started out nice but slowed down |
| Heavyweight | Corporal Punishment vs. Unit 3000-21 | 3 | One sided |
| Heavyweight | Warrior vs. Jack in the Bot | 2 | Quick KO |
| Heavyweight | Karcas 2 vs. DEATH-MAUL | 5 | Decent basic fight |
| Heavyweight | Verbal Abuse vs. Final Verdict | 1 | Final Verdict's spinner wasn't. |
| Heavyweight | BladeSpinner vs. Corporal Punishment | 6 | Alas, Blade Bender is more like it |
| Heavyweight | Megabyte vs. Warrior | 9 | Huge hit takes out both robots, but one a bit more than the other. |
| Heavyweight | Karcas 2 vs. Verbal Abuse | 6 | Good active fight |
| Heavyweight | Corporal Punishment vs. Megabyte | 9 | Big spinner vs. tough brick = gourmet damage! |
| Heavyweight | Karcas 2 vs. Megabyte | 7 | De plow, boss! De plow! |
| Heavyweight | Botknocker19 vs. BladeSpinner | 3 | Botknocker19 gets hammered. |
| Heavyweight | Unit 3000-21 vs. Final Verdict | 2 | The final verdict is that the weapon's broke! |
| Heavyweight | Jack in the Bot vs. DEATH-MAUL | 5 | Some nice bouncy hits |
| Heavyweight | Warrior vs. BladeSpinner | 3 | Quick surrender by the Warrior |
| Heavyweight | Final Verdict vs. Jack in the Bot | 6 | Final Verdict sweeps the dust off the arena floor |
| Heavyweight | BladeSpinner vs. Verbal Abuse | 4 | Pushyfight |
| Heavyweight | Final Verdict vs. Corporal Punishment | 4 | The final verdict on corporal punishment isn't good. |
| Heavyweight | Verbal Abuse vs. Final Verdict | 5 | Getting hammered is the least of Final Verdict's problems. |
| Heavyweight | Verbal Abuse vs. Megabyte | 5 | You have to spin to win, and Verbal Abuse rudely prevents Megabyte from getting up a head of steam. |
| Heavyweight | Verbal Abuse vs. Karcas 2 | 5 | Bumperbots |
| Super-Heavyweight | Nitro SOW vs. OUCH!! | 3 | Lots of sound, no fury, thus signifying very little, alas. |
| Super-Heavyweight | Bounty Hunter vs. Hogzilla | 6 | Lots of flips lead to a quick KO |
| Super-Heavyweight | SHOVELHEAD vs. Steel Reign | 6 | Fun fight! |
| Super-Heavyweight | Psycho Splatter II vs. Star Hawk | 5 | Active driving but weapons largely ineffective. |
| Super-Heavyweight | Zeus vs. Tombstone | 4 | Early weapon loss = pushfest |
| Super-Heavyweight | Super Megabyte vs. Steel Piranha | 1 | Two spinners that don't spin... |
| Super-Heavyweight | THE BLACK KNIGHT vs. Mer Madd | 6 | Short, fun, noisy. |
| Super-Heavyweight | Nitro SOW vs. Bounty Hunter | 6 | One day, perhaps in our lifetimes, Terry will get Nitro-SOW working properly. But not today. |
| Super-Heavyweight | SHOVELHEAD vs. The Judge | 6 | The Judge puts a kink in his own, ahem, appendage. |
| Super-Heavyweight | Star Hawk vs. Tombstone | 8 | Big sparks, big damage, great fight |
| Super-Heavyweight | Super Megabyte vs. Mer Madd | 8 | Super Megabyte gets nibbled upon. |
| Super-Heavyweight | Bounty Hunter vs. The Judge | 9 | Great back-and-forth battle! |
| Super-Heavyweight | Tombstone vs. Mer Madd | 9 | Tombstone engraves its name on Mer Madd! |
| Super-Heavyweight | The Judge vs. Tombstone | 7 | Lotsa pretty sparks in a fight that goes the distance. |
| Super-Heavyweight | THE BLACK KNIGHT vs. Steel Piranha | 3 | Noisy and one-sided |
| Super-Heavyweight | Zeus vs. Psycho Splatter II | 3 | Over quickly |
| Super-Heavyweight | THE BLACK KNIGHT vs. SHOVELHEAD | 6 | Two big bruisers do the old bump and grind |
| Super-Heavyweight | Psycho Splatter II vs. Nitro SOW | 3 | ICE bots really had a tough time in this tournament |
| Super-Heavyweight | Steel Reign vs. Super Megabyte | 8 | Great fight, lots of shrapnel, lots of pluck on the part of Steel Reign |
| Super-Heavyweight | OUCH!! vs. Star Hawk | 8 | Nice sparks! |
| Super-Heavyweight | SHOVELHEAD vs. Psycho Splatter II | 6 | Rule #1: put stuff on your bot so it only has one stable position: wheels on floor! |
| Super-Heavyweight | SHOVELHEAD vs. Mer Madd | 8 | Delicate driving delivery desired destiny. |
| Super-Heavyweight | OUCH!! vs. Bounty Hunter | 7 | Bounty Hunter gets busted |
| Super-Heavyweight | SHOVELHEAD vs. OUCH!! | 3 | Quick KO |
| Super-Heavyweight | SHOVELHEAD vs. The Judge | 8 | Shovelhead uses Lexan to try and become Judgement-proof. |
| Super-Heavyweight | The Judge vs. Tombstone | 8 | The judge floats belly up |
| 12Pound | VBT12 vs. Gone Postal | 7 | Gone Postal gets eviscerated! |
| 12Pound | Another Fierce Weed-Wacker vs. The Reading Terror Squad | 7 | Daddy, what's gyroscopic precession? |
| 12Pound | Spatula 2.0 vs. War Drums | 5 | Back and forth, some nice hits, but slows down at the end |
| 12Pound | VBT12 vs. Mace | 3 | Quick KO |
| 12Pound | Ricochet vs. Another Fierce Weed-Wacker | 7 | Massive hits early in the fight |
| 12Pound | Chigger vs. Rellik | 4 | Quick KO |
| 12Pound | VBT12 vs. Ricochet | 8 | See Ricochet Fly! Fly, Ricochet, Fly! |
| 12Pound | Chigger vs. Spatula 2.0 | 7 | Good back and forth fight |
| 12Pound | VBT12 vs. Chigger | 6 | Two of the biggest little spinners in the sport tangle, and it's over in a flash. |
| 12Pound | Gone Postal vs. Natasha | 5 | Good basic driving fight |
| 12Pound | The Reading Terror Squad vs. Rellik | 1 | Rellik largely nonfunctional |
| 12Pound | War Drums vs. Mace | 3 | Basic bumping |
| 12Pound | Natasha vs. The Reading Terror Squad | 4 | Pushfest |
| 12Pound | Another Fierce Weed-Wacker vs. War Drums | 1 | AFWW fails to run |
| 12Pound | Natasha vs. Ricochet | 4 | Hold still so I can hit you! No, you hold still! No, you! |
| 12Pound | War Drums vs. Spatula 2.0 | 4 | Starts out fine but then one bot just konks out. |
| 12Pound | Ricochet vs. Spatula 2.0 | 3 | Fast little bots + great big arena = drive-by's |
| 12Pound | Ricochet vs. VBT12 | 4 | Everybody sing! Spinner don't spin, pushybot dominate, Spinner don't spin, it no fun... |
| 12Pound | Ricochet vs. Chigger | 6 | Some nice hits |
| 30Pound | Morpheus vs. Totally Offensive | 6 | An earlier incarnation of Totally Offensive gets its frame twisted |
| 30Pound | Morpheus vs. Doom | 4 | Wedge Wars |
| 30Pound | Morpheus vs. Totally Manipulative | 5 | Couple of lifts, couple of good box runs |
| 30Pound | Morpheus vs. Puddle Jumper | 5 | Nice active bashfest |
| 30Pound | Totally Offensive vs. Doom | 7 | Quick KO, nice gyro action |
| 30Pound | Totally Offensive vs. Puddle Jumper | 3 | I was at the controls, which is why Totally Offensive was Totally Undriveable |
| 30Pound | Doom vs. Totally Manipulative | 3 | I yet again demonstrate my total lack of driving skill |
| 30Pound | Doom vs. Puddle Jumper | 4 | Basic fight |
| 30Pound | Totally Manipulative vs. Puddle Jumper | 4 | Just when you thought my driving couldn't suck worse, it does... |
| 30Pound | Morpheus vs. Doom | 5 | A long time ago, in an arena far, far away... Wedge Wars! |
| 30Pound | Totally Offensive vs. Puddle Jumper | 6 | Hilarious fight in which TO gets both drive motors knocked out and frame bent, and my son finds he can still pilot the robot by floating on the spinning blade! |