Results

Here are all the results from all the different challenges and prize categories from 2014’s Pi Wars competition. If a robot is not listed for a particular challenge, this implies that they either did not enter or did not complete the task.

Three Point Turn

1. Psiclops – 14.96 seconds (a later, not-counted run achieved 12.72 seconds!)
2. Tractorbot
3. PiBot_13
4. Steve
5. The BaseBot
6. roBar
7. Flashy Rover
8. Gnasher
9. Pi-lot
10. LegoHammer
11. B.O.T.Y.
12. Tracks
13. K.E.I.T.H.

Straight-Line Speed Test

1. Metabot – single fastest run of 2.983 seconds
2. Pi-lot
3. K.E.I.T.H.
4. TractorBot
5. Psiclops
6. PiBot_13
7. BiggerTrak
8. Tracks
9. The BaseBot
10. roBar
11. Team Vector
12. Steve

Others (sorry, haven’t worked out rankings for these!)

• Gnasher
• Flashy Rover
• Plymbot
• Pyrobot
• LegoHammer
• B.O.T.Y.

Obstacle Course

1. TractorBot
2. Psiclops
3. BiggerTrak
4. Steve
5. Hewbot
6. Flashy Rover
7. Metabot
8. Tracks
9. Team Vector
10. B.O.T.Y.
11. K.E.I.T.H.
12. roBar
13. The BaseBot
14. William
15. Plymbot
16. PiBot_13
17. = Gnasher
    = LegoHammer
18. Harold
19. Pi-lot
20. PyroBot

Robot Golf

1. Flashy Rover
2. Team Vector
3. roBar
4. B.O.T.Y.
5. Psiclops
6. Steve
7. Plymbot
8. K.E.I.T.H.
9. PiBot_13
10. Tracks
11. LegoHammer
12. The BaseBot
13. BiggerTrak
14. TractorBot
15. Metabot
16. Pi-lot

Aesthetics

1. Pi-lot
2. Gnasher
3. LegoHammer
4. Psiclops
5. The BaseBot
6. TractorBot
7. BiggerTrak
8. PyroBot
9. Harold
10. Team Vector
11. CannyBots
12. K.E.I.T.H.
13. Flashy Rover
14. Metabot
15. Plymbot
16. William
17. = Tracks
    = Space Invaders
18. = B.O.T.Y.
    = Hewbot
19. PiBot_13
20. roBaer
21. Steve
22. Ryanteck

Code Quality

1. roBar
2. Steve
3. = B.O.T.Y.
   = BiggerTrak
4. LegoHammer
5. Pi-lot
6. = Hewbot
   = Flashy Rover
7. = K.E.I.T.H.
   = TractorBot
8. The BaseBot
9. Metabot
10. = PyroBot
    = Gnasher
    = Team Vector
11. = PiBot_13
    = Harold
    = Plymbot
12. Tracks

Line Follower

1. roBar
2. Psiclops
3. K.E.I.T.H.
4. Tracks
5. Pi-lot
6. Steve
7. PyroBot
8. Harold

Proximity Alert

1. Hewbot
2. Psiclops
3. LegoHammer
4. The BaseBot
5. roBar
6. Gnasher
7. Metabot
8. TractorBot
9. K.E.I.T.H.
10. PiBot_13
11. Steve
12. Team Vector
13. Flash Rovert
14. = Tracks
    = Pyrobot
    = Harold

Sumo

Not listing the byes…

Round 1 winners – PiBot_13, BiggerTrak, TractorBot, LegoHammer, MetaBot

Round 2 winners – BiggerTrak, TractorBot, Metabot, Flashy Rover, PiBot_13

Round 3 winners – Steve, PiBot_13, Metabot, BiggerTrak

Semi Final winners – MetaBot, Steve

Final winner – Metabot

Smallest Robot

Mini-Me (a model A on a pair of tiny tracks)

Best Non-Competitive

Professional (honourable mention) – Gert Van Loo for Toast-E

Amateur (winner) – Alex Ellis for RoboDriver

Most innovative

To be confirmed (need to find the bit of paper!)

Most feature-rich robot

To be confirmed (need to find the bit of paper!)

Jim Darby prize

Amy Willis – for being the youngest person to have soldered the most LEDs all by herself!

Point Accumulators

Best Autonomous Robot

1. Psiclops
2. roBar
3. K.E.I.T.H.
4. Metabot
5. TractorBot
6. The BaseBot
7. Tracks
8. Gnasher
9. Hewbot
10. Pibot_13
11. Steve
12. LegoHammer
13. Pi-lot
14. Flashy Rover
15. Harold
16. Team Vector
17. PyroBot
18. B.O.T.Y.
19. = William
    = BiggerTrak
    = Plymbot

Best Remote-Controlled Robot

1. BiggerTrak
2. Psiclops
3. TractorBot
4. Flashy Rover
5. Steve
6. Team Vector
7. roBar
8. B.O.T.Y.
9. PiBot_13
10. Tracks
11. LegoHammer
12. Pi-lot
13. K.E.I.T.H.
14. Hewbot
15. Metabot
16. The BaseBot
17. Plymbot
18. Gnasher
19. PyroBot
20. William
21. Harold

Best Robot Under £75

1. TractorBot
2. roBar
3. Metabot
4. LegoHammer
5. Pi-lot
6. Tracks
7. Hewbot
8. B.O.T.Y.
9. Plymbot
10. Harold
11. William

Best Robot Over £75

1. Psiclops
2. Steve
3. K.E.I.T.H.
4. BiggerTrak
5. Flashy Rover
6. The BaseBot
7. Pibot_13
8. Gnasher
9. Team Vector
10. Pyrobot