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Another in the series of interviews with teams competing in this year’s Space Elevator Games is now posted.\u00a0 Last Friday, I interviewed Brian Turner of the Kansas City Space Pirates team.\u00a0 This team is first-time entrant in this event.\u00a0 However, they have a secret weapon; one of the team-members used to design robots for the TV show “BattleBots”.\u00a0\u00a0If I was someone from another team, I’d be very sure to keep my climber away from the\u00a0Space Pirates entry \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n