Essex Homecoming Battle - First Report [TANKS]

[Frank Pittelli <frank-at-rctankcombat.com>]

Two words summarize the Essex Homecoming Battle held today in Maryland:

        Hot and Deadly

Under a bright sun, 85 degrees and high-humidity, the Maryland Attack 
Group hosted a day of battling at the Essex Skypark.  Eleven battlers 
attended including veterans Frank, Will, Steve, John, Paul, Joe, Chris, 
Marty, Karl, and Rick, and new recruit Mike.  Two one-hour battles were 
held with plenty of action, a number of mechanical failures and lots of 
destruction.  Ironically, the Essex-natives, Frank, John and Paul fared 
the worse throughout the day, suffering many defeats (perhaps the choice 
of "Bluebirds" as a team name had something to do with it).

All attendees are hereby requested to submit their own battle stories 
and lessons learned to the mailing list, so that the world can enjoy the 
event as much as we did.  I'll be posting my own story (pitiful as it 
was) and the official results later this evening.  All posted messages 
will be edit and posted to the website in due course.  If anyone took at 
pictures, please forward them to me and I'll post them as well.

        Frank "Time For Some Tiger Work" Pittelli