Team Storm
Team Storm
Press Release
Team Storm are heading out to compete in the largest robotic competition in the world in June 2008 to represent the UK at Fort Mason in San Francisco, California at RoboGames. Having dominated the UK Robot Wars scene for the past few years, it's time to show what the UK can do on the international stage.
RoboGames is the world's largest robotic competition, and the ideal place for Team Storm to show the world just how deserved that 'World Champion' title is. Running from the 12th – 15th of June Team Storm will be taking their Heavyweight combat robot 'Storm II' to compete for the champions title.
About Team Storm
Created back in 2000, two friends Ed Hoppitt and Tim Bence decided having watched BBC2's Robot Wars they could do better than what they saw. Their first robot never made it to TV, but their second machine called Storm II has only ever lost one fight on TV in its entire career and no other robot has gone from a newcomer to a champion so quickly – and maintained its competitive edge.
Storm II is a 100Kg heavyweight robot and is right at the top of the food chain in the world of Robotic Combat. Delivering a power to weight ratio that exceeds a rally car, capable of pulling a full loaded bus, armoured in military aerospace titanium armour and using a custom made weapon system that most robot wars teams could only dream of having access to, Storm II is a force to be reckoned with.
Heavyweight Sponsorship for a Heavyweight Team
Team Storm have long been associated with local companies helping them along the way, The Evening Star newspaper was their first sponsor, and since then BT and Castlebroom Engineering have both worked with the team.
In 2008 however Team Storm joins forces with two heavyweights of the IT world and sign the largest sponsorship deal ever for a Robot Wars team. IT Services company Computacenter (a leading provider of IT infrastructure services) with group revenues of around £2billion and VMWare (one of the fastest growing software companies in the world) with revenues of around $1.3billion come together to support the team.
They're providing Team Storm with the funding to travel to international competitions, keep Storm II running and even perhaps build a successor to Storm II. As well as funding Team Storm, the team are using some of that money to provide funding to budding young roboteers through the Team Storm Academy.
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