Tombstone

Season 4

**Tombstone** is a robot that competes in Lego Battlebots. It is a black 2wd bot armed with interchangeable horizontal spinning blades. It is a legend across robot combat, and is currently 16-5 in Lego Battlebots. Its blade has incredible power, and it usually destroys its opponent.

Tombstone competes in *BattleBots* as well. It has won more than 30 matches, and is a 2-time champion. It competed in the 2004 **NPC Charity Open**, the **2009 Pro Championships**, and every reboot season until the latest.

Both the bot and builder **Ray Billings** are from Placerville, California.

It kicked off its Lego career by winning three exhibition matches before entering Season 1 as the #1 seed. There, it won 3 matches and advanced into the semifinals before losing to **Hydra**. In Season 2, it was the 3 seed, and made it to the quarterfinals before being completely destroyed by **Gigabyte.** In Season 3, it did well again, making the quarterfinals, but losing to eventual champ **SawBlaze**, whom Tombstone had fought twice already in heats, with both advancing through each round until the quarters. In Season 4, it destroyed **Orby Blade** before getting a massive upset over **Captain Shrederator**. Tombstone slowly tore apart **Red Flame** to move to 3-0, but lost to **Mad Catter** after getting stuck on the screw wall.

### Robot Info

Not only does Tombstone have a lot of power in its weapon, but it is fairly reliable. It has proven durable in most of its matches; the only time it was torn completely apart was against **Gigabyte** in the Season 2 quarterfinals.

Tombstone was originally a superheavyweight in real life, and competed in the NPC Charity Open (as listed above) and three RoboGames events, where it went 8-6 in the competition. Tombstone has a counterpart called **Last Rites** in both real life and Lego, although Lego Last Rites doesn't have as much durability as Tombstone, and is more compact. Tombstone has appeared in three Fight Night main events, against robots **OverKill**, **Jackpot**, and **Chaos 2**; it has won all three battles by KO. Down below is a description of all of Tombstone's fights, or the "Robot History".

(Editing this is greatly appreciated; especially the glitchy infobox.)

### Robot History

#### Season 1

Tombstone first faced the 32 seed Ginsu in Season 1. Tombstone was able to destroy four of the 6 wheels on Ginsu, and eventually stranded it on its side. Tombstone won by knockout, and advanced to face the 17 seed **Blacksmith**.

Blacksmith did well to start, but Tombstone soon ripped off its forks. Blacksmith took the hits for a while but ended up being worn down by all the hits.

Tombstone then fought the 9 seed **Duck** in the quarterfinals. Duck took the hits well from Tombstone until Tombstone caught an edge and then ripped the plow off of Duck. Duck still took the hits well, but then got taken out of the arena by the screws.

Tombstone then advanced to face the 21 seed **Hydra**. Hydra proved too durable for Tombstone, and ended up flipping Tombstone out. Hydra won by OOTA and advanced into the finals.It

Between S2, Tombstone was thrown out of the arena by **Uppercut**.

#### Season 2

Returning unchanged for Season 2, Tombstone got the 3 seed and was put up against the 30 seed **HyperShock**. Tombstone did some good hits to HyperShock, but HyperShock stayed aggressive and durable. However, Tombstone was able to catch an edge and crack his opponent's frame. It wasn't long before HyperShock was split in half.

Tombstone then faced the 19 seed **SawBlaze**. The fight started out with Tombstone hitting SawBlaze, but SawBlaze absorbed the hit and got in some snacks with its hammer saw. Tombstone then spun up and tore off two of the forks on SawBlaze. Tombstone tried to rip off the other, but SawBlaze countered with some control before Tombstone ripped off the last fork. Tombstone then started damaging the rest of SawBlaze's front, and shoved it in a corner. On the next hit, Tombstone threw SawBlaze out of the arena with its weapon.

Tombstone then advanced into the quarterfinals, where it faced **Gigabyte**, the lowest remaining seed left. Tombstone and Gigabyte were staying neck and neck for most of the match, with both bots recoiling from the hits and Tombstone being slightly more aggressive. Tombstone, however, then tried to spin up but lost its blade. Gigabyte then delivered a hit that sent the wheels flying out of Tombstone, and part of the frame was destroyed. It is currently the biggest hit in Lego Battlebots history.

#### Season 3

Tombstone had only one change for Season 3- the wheels were turned inside out to get more traction. It then faced SawBlaze, **OverKill**, and Launchpad in a 4-way rumble. Launchpad started out great, taking OverKill out. Launchpad then targeted Tombstone, and ended up nearly throwing him out. However, SawBlaze then controlled Launchpad in the screws and used its hammer saw to tear it apart.

Tombstone then faced SawBlaze and **Uppercut**. SawBlaze started out by getting under the rear end of Tombstone, but Tombstone then spun up and stripped a wheel off of Uppercut. Uppercut then spun up, trying to do damage, but when it hit SawBlaze's forks, it was flipped over, and then did some crazy dance moves. Uppercut was then mostly immobile, which left Tombstone and SawBlaze to fight one another. SawBlaze then attacked Uppercut, but its hammer saw got stuck in the screws. By this time, Uppercut was moving again and landed a hit on SawBlaze. SawBlaze then put Uppercut in the screws. Uppercut tried to get down, but then got stuck on its weapon supports, giving Tombstone and SawBlaze the win. Both advanced to the quarterfinals.

Tombstone and SawBlaze then faced each other in a 1v1 match. Tombstone did well during the match, taking off some forks. Tombstone delivered some powerful hits to SawBlaze, and ripped off the last fork; at the same time SawBlaze got some good control. However, Tombstone's weapon broke, and it allowed SawBlaze to get more control. On the last attack, SawBlaze got Tombstone out.

SawBlaze went on to win the championship after defeating **End Game** in the Finals.

#### Season 4

Returning for Season 4, Tombstone faced **Orby Blade**. Orby Blade did not get a single good hit in the match, although spinning up several times. Tombstone was working on destroying Orby's wedge, but it then got a hit to the front. With the wheel guards gone, Tombstone tore in to Orby some more. Tombstone ended up flipping Orby Blade and although its self-righting mechanism was still on, it wasn't working. This gave Tombstone the win by KO.

Tombstone was then up against fellow 1-0 bot **Captain Shrederator**. Tombstone and Shrederator were neck and neck to start the match as both of them were looking for the perfect position. Tombstone was getting a bit more control. Then came a hit that knocked Tombstone's blade clean out of its frame, and it then lost a bit of its bottom frame. However, Tombstone had the more powerful drive and ended up pushing Shrederator out with the screws.

Tombstone then fought **Red Flame**, who was also 2-0. Red Flame tried a long fork config for this fight.

Tombstone spun up its blade and rammed it into Red Flame, who was taking the hits well. After two hits, the long forks were gone from Red Flame. Red Flame was still taking numerous shots from Tombstone's blade without any further damage, until Tombstone caught an edge and ripped out a wheel and a piece of front armor. Red Flame went around the box some more, taking more hits, but Tombstone took off the other piece of front armor. Tombstone then stripped off a second wheel and left Red Flame under the pulverizer. Tombstone advanced to 3-0.

Tombstone took on another 3-0 bot, **Mad Catter**, in its final S4 qualifier fight. Mad Catter did well to start, stopping up Tombstone's blade with its defensive wedge. Mad Catter was trying to control Tombstone around the box, but Tombstone then got to the back and took off Mad Catter's left rear wheel, then tore its side armor clean off along with the other left side wheel. However, as Tombstone was going in for another attack, Mad Catter stopped it up and, since it was close to the screws, used them as an advantage to get Tombstone up in the screws and pin it on the wall. Tombstone's wheels weren't on the ground, and Mad Catter took the win by KO. Tombstone, for its strong performances, was seeded #4, the highest of the 3-1 bots, following the 6 seed Inverse.

Tombstone faced the #29 seed, Tsunami, in the Round of 32. To start, both bots spun up and collided twice before Tombstone ripped off Tsunami's self-righting arm. Tombstone then targeted the wheels of Tsunami. Tsunami got a hit on one of Tombstone's wheels before ripping out the rear end and tearing off Tsunami's other wheel.

As a result Tombstone advanced to the Round of 16, and faced the #20 seed, Cobalt. The fight began with Cobalt taking several hits from Tombstone before Cobalt gained brief control. Tombstone then lost a piece of its blade, and was dragged into the wall while trying to spin its blade. Cobalt landed several more hits, and Tombstone then lost another piece of its weapon. This gave an even bigger edge to Cobalt as he threw Tombstone in the screws, then using the wall to get him on his back. This eliminated Tombstone from the tournament.

#### Wins/Losses

Wins: 16
Losses: 5

 Season 4- Round of 16

### Image Gallery

Tombstone fighting Uppercut and SawBlazeTombstone awaiting the KO after destroying Orby Blade (s4e1)Tombstone takes a wheel out of GinsuSeason 1
Tombstone also has a collection of blades. It is known that he has at least 4; a red, a blue, a gray, and black blade. Also, he is known to have sported a dark gray bar at one time, but that was given to another robot. One of Tombstone's old blades was given to **Valkyrie** as well.

#### Trivia

1. Tombstone was the very first #1 seed in Lego Battlebots.
2. Tombstone has never missed the quarterfinals of a main competition; it also made the semifinals of Season 1.
3. Tombstone has rarely used its red, gray, or black blades on camera; only five of its 21 fights are known to have utilized a different blade then the blue.
4. Tombstone is the only robot to land a top 4 seed every season; **Drift** was given the 5 seed in Season 4.
5. Tombstone's most popular match was against then rookie bot **Uppercut**; the result was that Uppercut threw Tombstone out of the arena.
6. Tombstone was given pit number 11 for Season 4, right next to Team Inverse, who were given pit number 5.
7. After its Season 4 qualifying round matches, Tombstone recieved some penetrating oil on its weapon shaft to make it spin better, since it was struggling to spin up its weapon.